Breakdown Information

Getting us back on topic 3 breakdowns to report, both on the same rig: 1998 Southwind Storm 34S 7.4L Vortec Chevrolet (before the workhorse) 16,500 GVWR 1st. breakdown 46,000miles Dec. 24 2005(yeah I know great day to have problems) After traveling 450 miles the day before got up in the morning to leave turned key and nothing..not even a click tried emergency start switch and still nothing. tried jump starting and still nothing gave up and call AAA. When tow showed up truck was way too small to tow rig, tow driver tried jumping us also still nothing, tow driver asked if i could put jacks down and he would crawl under and have a quick look, ended up being a wire loose on the starter tightened it up and away we went no further trouble. 2nd breakdown 47,000miles Oct. 26 2006 About 150 miles from home (less than 20 miles to campground) Auto Park light would come on and go off but the brake did not apply (having heard of the the woes of the system i had already done some research on it) got to campgrounds got under the coach and found the pressure maintance switch was leaking (aka RGS(rotton green switch)) was not able to get one, finished our weekend and limped home stopping to check Auto Park fluid and the brake itself(to be sure it was not hot) did this every 30 to 60 miles. got home ordered switch replaced it and all was well untill...... 3rd breakdown 51,000miles Jan.13 2007 After traveling 300 miles the day before got up to leave,started coach put in drive could hear AutoPark disengage (pump running) break disengaged pump shut off but light did not go off, got under coach found nothing leaking system was operating normally so we drove to the nearest chevy dealer(they were no help) so we continued on, checked it every so often for leak\overheating\pump running after about 390 miles i discovered another pressure switch was leaking (not the green one this one was\is gray) switch was not availabe in the area, just so we could get home (we were on our way from florida to ohio problem 1st started in south georiga buy the time it started leaking we were in tennesse) workhorse in tennesse keeps the green switches in stock but not the grey ones, so i bought one of the green ones (the green and gray switches are exactly the same except for the plug and the function) and put it in place of the gray one just to plug the hole so we could get home. got home ordered proper switch and all is working normally again..... My point of posting these is this...just because we have a motorhome don't mean we have money falling from the sky on us..none of these repairs\fixes was more than $60.00 per occurance in parts and some time and research on my part (thanks again Rodger) if i did not have the knowledge\ability to do these repairs myself the last 2 repairs alone would have cost over $1000.00 each with loss of use of MH hotels rental cars ect. if you have a chevy\workhorse with a yellow knob to apply the parking brake you have some form of the Auto Park system..you may want to get to know the system..i'm sure glad i did..saved me and AAA a bunch of $$$...and i think i have looked at all 54 pages lol Brian 98 Southwind Storm 34S (no toad)