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Originally Posted by suny07
This comment is for the Lippert electric AutoLevel 3.0
I thought so as well - this lift-system should be able to lift the rig.
Actually I just changed tires due to a few flats lately.
My front right leg all of a sudden was shot.
I got it replaced by myself during a trip and thank god everything went smooth.
But during changing the leg I figured that there might be something bent. (see pics)
At least to my eye those to square beams to which the front legs attache seemed not right.
So after my trip I checked in with my dealer to look at it.
His comment was that he learned and saw that type of damage on the trainings but never in reality.
The manufacturer states in those training that the bending of those square beams is caused by jacking up the trailer.
Its a week point to protect the frame.
Holy... so now our Monty is back in the shop and gets this welded and fixed.
Note to myself, do not jack up completely with the Autolevel Jacks.
Mike
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A square tube is weak in that direction of force. A simple piece of flat square metal plate welded to each end of that square tube would have greatly strengthened it and very unlikely to have bent. And may well have prevented the weld from breaking from the frame.