Drop Down Trailers

[ram1962]

Ok, need some advice, I recently purchased a Ice Castle drop-down trailer with a few buds of mine. We're having a heated debate on how to travel with the trailer with the cables loose, allowing the leaf springs to bounce up and down, or traveling with the cables pulled just taunt, allowing the springs to extract at the ends. If anyone has advice on this subject, please respond. Personally, I thought I had a better ride in my truck while the cables were pulled just taunt. I found that when we left the cables loose the ride was pretty bouncey.

[broken line]

Not an expert, but - we keep out cables completely loose when traveling. Yes the ride is bouncy, but the house is bulky and heavy which likely causes most of that. My opinion, the springs are meant to take the beating, the cables are not. If you get to your destination and have a broken cable, you'll be out of luck.

[timjones]

The booklet that comes with the Ice Castle says to have the cables loose.

[FIRECAT]

I've got a Ice Castle also, leave them loose or may ruin cables or bend winch brackets. Yea they can really bounce on some of our wonderful roads.

[MuleShack]

Not an expert, but - we keep out cables completely loose when traveling. Yes the ride is bouncy, but the house is bulky and heavy which likely causes most of that. My opinion, the springs are meant to take the beating, the cables are not. If you get to your destination and have a broken cable, you'll be out of luck.

+1

cables are ohly for lifting and lowering.

[reelguy]

+1 cables are for lifting only. Also of note, our Ice Castle says to grease the frame on the zerts everytime you lower and raise the frame. Something that might not have been mentioned.

[motley man]

Biggest thing is to keep everything greased and slow down when driving.