As you have seen, the front shell has two pairs of torsion bars going across, under the trailer. One pair lifts the front of the front shell, the other pair lifts the rear of the front shell. Be sure you identify them properly, since at the center of the trailer, the bars for the front shell are kind of intermixed with the bars for the rear shell.
One end of each torsion bar is bent at a right angle, and goes up into the white lifting arm outside the wall of the shell. The other end of each bar is also bent in a right angle, and the short stub is captured in a steel cage under the trailer. The cage has a BIG BOLT going up into it, the end of which is pressed against the stub in the cage. To get more lift, you turn that BIG BOLT inward, to make it press harder on the stub. You will need a BIG SOCKET WRENCH to so this.
You will make small adjustments - a quarter turn at a time. Be sure to do the adjustment in pairs - adjust the front pair of torsion bars, see where it gets you, then adjust the rear pair of torsion bars, and again see where it gets you.
You will probably not adjust the front and rear pairs by the same amount. Try this. Close the TM entirely. Make sure the corner latches on the front shell are unlatched, then pull the big center latches that hold the front shell down. Does the rear end of the front shell bound upward quite a number of inches, or is it a little less energetic? If it bounds up, you probably have enough force on the rear pair of torsion bars. Make the next adjustment on the front pair.
By the way, at the adjustment end of all of the torsion bars, the stub end pokes out of the cage, and is retained in place with a stainless steel worm clamp. Do not do anything to these clamps except to be sure they are present and tight!
Our resident expert on this issue is Larryjb, not me. If I have said anything that is wrong or needs explanation, he will chime in.
Let us know.
Bill
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