Anyone who’s ever owned a 5^th wheel has almost assuredly had to deal with a little bit of ‘creep’ – and no, I don’t mean the weird guy across from your site that just stares at ya all day.

We used to call the noise it made in ours “Lucy” after Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds … ok, weird, but it worked for us. There’s this one part of the song where it almost sounds like a ‘moan’ …

So, we researched a lot of the add on stabilizers, read review after review,  and we considered king pin stabilizers too. The JT’s just had so many good reviews, and we didn’t want to give up more space to storing a kingpin stabilizer – so we went with them. Here’s a link: JT’s Strong Arm

We just finished our first major trip with them in place and OMG what a difference! In our humble opinion these are worth every dime (and blood, sweat, and tears installing them)! Rock solid is all we can say.

If you’re mechanically inclined and don’t mind spending time under your rig drilling thru steel (which is a challenge all by itself if you don’t know how), one can install these yourself. They come with pretty much everything you need hardware wise, more than enough actually. We only ran into one hiccup in that the rear stabilizers needed to attach to a steel horizontal surface within a certain position range. We didn’t have that. I called the company and they said they had several video’s online on installation and installation tips, so I checked it out. They showed a simple idea of using a piece of angle iron added across the frame. I didn’t quite have that, but previously we had added a custom rear hitch receiver system. I was able to attach a piece of angle iron to that in order to create a flat horizontal surface for the rear ones. They have a lot of other ideas for a lot of different situations and their tech support isn’t bad.

The bottom line is now we’re on stable ground with no shakes! We will miss Lucy though 🙂