Outriggers Forest River parts

I have them with me as I am about to install them over the next couple days. 6 1/2" long x 3" high x 1 1/2" wide. Here is a video of me holding one up: https://vimeo.com/632462876

I just noticed when I unloaded the jack you could see the support was trying to bend.  I added another brace and it seemed to hold much better.  I think because it had been sagged for so long it took a lot of pressure to get it back level.  I am hoping that once it settles a bit it will be okay.  I still think I need to add 2 more supports.

Unfortunately, I did not take pictures. I think there were four. I only looked on the slide-side. They seemed to be evenly spaced. I did notice that they were welded to the frame and looked to have a rather sturdy bolt coming down through the end.

I saw a new 179. The outriggers are now factory installed. That does not help those of us with older RPods, but it is good to know that FR recognized the problem and has actually done something to address it.

If they moved the frame out the floor would just sag worse in the center instead (there are plenty of cases of center sagging too).

They were trying to make the lightest cheapest floor possible and use a cantilever arrangement with overhangs on each side to make it work. Cantilevers are used all the time to extend the span of beams, and they generally work well.

The problem here is the thin lauan sandwich loses stiffness over time so while the cantilever design is sound in concept in practice it didn't work.