Slowly unwinding

[DaveA1]

Has anyone got any ideas to stop my jockey wheel from slowly unwinding on a journey.
Have to stop and wind it up, but it will eventually unwind again.

 

[birdman101]

If the wheel is located up in the slot and it still unwinds after doing tight ,I would use a Bungee round the handle to the hitch so that it cannot turn.

 

[Hutch]

Hi Dave, try a bungee cord , attached to the

If the wheel is located up in the slot and it still unwinds after doing tight ,I would use a Bungee round the handle to the hitch so that it cannot turn.

Just about to write the same, make sure the bungee doesn't slip down the winding handle.

 

[DaveA1]

Thanks. All the vans I've had over many years, this is the first one to do it. Very frighting first time it happened.

 

[birdman101]

I have never had it. I have always after winding up tight then give it a bang with my hand to put extra pressure on.

 

[Mr Plodd]

I have always done the same as Birdman and never had one unwind either!

 

[Mel]

Towing on the M6
Me: That’s Wastemaster is bumping about in the front locker.
Him: Yes, when we stop I will wedge it.

Some miles later.
It wasn’t the Wastemaster.
Mel

 

[Steve1962]

Just don’t do what I did as we were about to leave West Oxon for Old Oaks… all loaded up and ready to go…. Tighten the jockey wheel handle up…. Then , in true Captain Chaos style, “ *** it up until the handle snaps off in yer hand”
God bless MJ LOVELLS of Highbridge for saving the two weeks holiday… and my marriage!
Now I am only allowed to wear slip ons🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥺

 

[Niall_McIntosh]

Just don’t do what I did as we were about to leave West Oxon for Old Oaks… all loaded up and ready to go…. Tighten the jockey wheel handle up…. Then , in true Captain Chaos style, “ *** it up until the handle snaps off in yer hand”
God bless MJ LOVELLS of Highbridge for saving the two weeks holiday… and my marriage!
Now I am only allowed to wear slip ons🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥺

Happened to me, arriving at a site. Ended up using the Milenco steps as a temporary rest for the towhitch, while we dashed off to Grantham Caravans to buy a replacement handle, and B&Q for some drill bits and stud extractors, to drill out the bit of stud still stuck in the clamp.

 

[Steve1962]

Happened to me, arriving at a site. Ended up using the Milenco steps as a temporary rest for the towhitch, while we dashed off to Grantham Caravans to buy a replacement handle, and B&Q for some drill bits and stud extractors, to drill out the bit of stud still stuck in the clamp.

MJ LOVELLS were brilliant… they moved planned work out of the way so they could fix it for us…. And only charged £42.

 

[Dustydog]

MJ LOVELLS were brilliant… they moved planned work out of the way so they could fix it for us…. And only charged £42.

Sam and Martin Lovell did an excellent accident bodywork repair job for me last year. Absolutely first class and highly skilled chaps👏👏

 

[Beachball]

On our last caravan I did exactly like Birdman and never had one unwind yet

 

[Buckman]

We changed our ALKO jockey assembly for a Kartt jockey assembly and never had another issue with it unwinding.

 

[JTQ]

We changed our ALKO jockey assembly for a Kartt jockey assembly and never had another issue with it unwinding.

Was that one that incorporated their "Turn lock", a special feature which appears to specifically address the OP's issue?
LINK

I thought you used the Alko one with the nose weight gauge, but I could be getting confused already, even this early in the day!

 

[Dustydog]

I wonder why it happens? Never had a problem on a caravan in over 40 years but did lose one on an older car trailer.

Is it an individual manufacturing defect?

How the JR is stored whilst in transit?

Maybe the chassis clamp hasn't been tightened enough? Thus allowing vibration which undoes the JW?

 

[Buckman]

Was that one that incorporated their "Turn lock", a special feature which appears to specifically address the OP's issue?
LINK

I thought you used the Alko one with the nose weight gauge, but I could be getting confused already, even this early in the day!

Never had the one with the nose weight gauge as advice on this forum was a waste of money as very inaccurate. No idea if it had the turn lock, but it worked for us. On all our previous caravans pre-2017, we never had an issue with the ALKO unwinding?

 

[GaryB]

I used to have a Brian James car transporter trailer and the jockey wheel on that used to unwind occasionally no matter how tight you did it up. A bungee cord from its handle to the winch stopped it happening but never experienced it on any caravan or trailer since.

 

[RogerL]

I wonder why it happens? Never had a problem on a caravan in over 40 years but did lose one on an older car trailer.

Is it an individual manufacturing defect?

How the JR is stored whilst in transit?

Maybe the chassis clamp hasn't been tightened enough? Thus allowing vibration which undoes the JW?

The lack of wheel balancing on caravans causes a multitude of issues relating to vibration - I know that some brands now claim to balance the wheels at the factory but when tyre replacements are needed, some tyre fitters still persist in the old belief that "caravan tyres don't need balancing"

 

[Buckman]

The lack of wheel balancing on caravans causes a multitude of issues relating to vibration - I know that some brands now claim to balance the wheels at the factory but when tyre replacements are needed, some tyre fitters still persist in the old belief that "caravan tyres don't need balancing"

Correction. Not some but most tyre fitters! We have always had our caravan tyres balanced since about 2005.