Recent content by Jim_Lou

One slide on my Winnebago Vectra would often fail to retract.  After multiple trips to Forest City, HWH and independent shops I finally analyzed and solved the problem myself. The basic cause was Winnebago's design, probably exacerbated by a direction control valve that draws more than average...

What others have said about going to someone competent!  If your shop think a wiring problem can cause a jack to retract slowly they don't have a clue.  The wiring is to a solenoid valve.  If the valve opens the jack will come up.  If it's closed the jack will stay down.  If there's enough power...

If that wire goes open it won't be intermittent any more, so I agree - a new wire is a better option for sure.  More pressing right now it to get my Kenwood D700 installed, but I don't want to put a hole in the roof for the antenna.  So many projects, so little time.

It would be great if they could run a new wire, but I don't like the idea of poking it through the floor and running it along the frame as the Winnebago service guy suggested.  Would you approve of that?  I would wire in a relay at the connector first.  Seven volts drop into a 1.6 ohm load...

After having replaced the contactor once with a Winnebago part that failed within a few months I contacted Trombetta about the failure and learned that Trombetta makes a contactor identical to the one they sell Winnebago except that the points are silver plated instead of plain copper.  I got...

Hi everyone!  I just found this forum and it looks great!  When I stumbled in here I was looking for festoon light bulbs and got a good link.  Thanks! Now I'd like to see if anyone has had a similar slide problem.  The driver's side slide has always worked fine, and the passenger side slide...