Slowly unwinding
- Thread starter DaveA1
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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.
- Nov 16, 2015
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Hi Dave, try a bungee cord , attached to the
Just about to write the same, make sure the bungee doesn't slip down the winding handle.
- Oct 17, 2010
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Thanks. All the vans I've had over many years, this is the first one to do it. Very frighting first time it happened.
- Sep 4, 2011
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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.
Mel
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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
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
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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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥺
God bless MJ LOVELLS of Highbridge for saving the two weeks holiday… and my marriage!
Now I am only allowed to wear slip ons🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥺
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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.
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MJ LOVELLS were brilliant… they moved planned work out of the way so they could fix it for us…. And only charged £42.
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Sam and Martin Lovell did an excellent accident bodywork repair job for me last year. Absolutely first class and highly skilled chaps👏👏
Was that one that incorporated their "Turn lock", a special feature which appears to specifically address the OP's issue?
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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!
- Jun 20, 2005
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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?
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?
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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.
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"
- Jul 18, 2017
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Correction. Not some but most tyre fitters! We have always had our caravan tyres balanced since about 2005.
IMO it is stupid, just because we don't feel the vibrations as we are not travelling in the van, that does not mean it is not happening and shaking the van.
Afterall, the rotational speeds generating out of balance forces are no less with the van than the vehicle that is towing it, quite often where with smaller wheels on vans they would be higher rotational speeds.
The cost for tyre fitting almost always includes the balancing, not been told its cheaper to leave doing that out.
However, I have also had to point out to fitters that I had specifically asked for and want them balanced, whatever they think.
Much the same as I specify, new & HP stems are fitted, only to be told there is "no need". Then, later to surprise them when responding to "what pressure gov", I tell them I want them inflated to 65 psi. Many IME simply don't understand the application.
In an industry that deems a tyre as "new" up to 5 years since manufacture, and then ought to be scrapped at 7 years since manufacture, it is unlikely to understand much about tyres for caravans!
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- Oct 17, 2010
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One of the first things I had done, when I bought the van. In fact balanced all my previous Van wheels.
I wonder if the reason many van makers don't bother with balancing wheels, is they don't expect us to tow their caravans?
Given their general response to claims for issues that arise from the inevitable consequences of towing, like "you must have hit a pot hole".
Given their general response to claims for issues that arise from the inevitable consequences of towing, like "you must have hit a pot hole".
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They tried that excuse with us when we had a cracked front. Part of the argument was if they knew it was a pothole due to state of UK roads then there was a design fault somewhere. The repair ws done at their expense although I had to pay about £600 for a £9000 repair as the whole front needed replacing.
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