leveling gear alarm while driving
So, I'm driving home and for no apparent reason the "JACKS DOWN " lights up on the Power Gear control panel and a very annoying " BEEP, BEEP" is happening. Trust me, this will have you hunting for an ...
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update on the original post--
Crawled under the MH Sat. morning armed with a wrench and a quart of ATF. Found drop of fluid on drain plug. Ah HA, leaking drain plug. So that's where the fluid went. Okay, bet I can fix that. Pull the fill plug and get a flow of fluid down side of tank. Yes, fill plug- not drain plug. Probably a pint of fluid ran out. Didn't have time to catch it as I was expecting to add. Now what? Let it drain and wipe down the tank, and put fill plug back in. Crawl out and check to see whats going on now. No beep beep or audible alarm. Lower the jacks and things seem right. Raise the jacks and still no alarm. Run the jacks up/down/up/down - fronts only, rears only, left and right. Things actually seem to work better/faster. Now the jacks will retract when I push the raise jacks button - I don't have to hold it down. Also, if I release the parking brake or take the trans out of park the jacks retract by themselves. I don't know if that last part happened before this incident or not. Never really fooled around with them. Everything seems good at this point but now I have questions. If someone filled the tank while the jacks were down or partially down wouldn't that prevent the jacks from retracting fully? How would a low fluid float switch cause an alarm when the fluid was actually high? Could the high fluid create a pressure in the tank and collapse the float? I'm pretty sure that I did check to see that I'd get the alarm when I should. But then again, the alarm doesn't happen until the brake is released or trans not in park. Either situation causes the jacks to retract seemingly automatically.Guess I'll just run out there and check all this stuff again. Updates at ten.
Crawled under the MH Sat. morning armed with a wrench and a quart of ATF. Found drop of fluid on drain plug. Ah HA, leaking drain plug. So that's where the fluid went. Okay, bet I can fix that. Pull the fill plug and get a flow of fluid down side of tank. Yes, fill plug- not drain plug. Probably a pint of fluid ran out. Didn't have time to catch it as I was expecting to add. Now what? Let it drain and wipe down the tank, and put fill plug back in. Crawl out and check to see whats going on now. No beep beep or audible alarm. Lower the jacks and things seem right. Raise the jacks and still no alarm. Run the jacks up/down/up/down - fronts only, rears only, left and right. Things actually seem to work better/faster. Now the jacks will retract when I push the raise jacks button - I don't have to hold it down. Also, if I release the parking brake or take the trans out of park the jacks retract by themselves. I don't know if that last part happened before this incident or not. Never really fooled around with them. Everything seems good at this point but now I have questions. If someone filled the tank while the jacks were down or partially down wouldn't that prevent the jacks from retracting fully? How would a low fluid float switch cause an alarm when the fluid was actually high? Could the high fluid create a pressure in the tank and collapse the float? I'm pretty sure that I did check to see that I'd get the alarm when I should. But then again, the alarm doesn't happen until the brake is released or trans not in park. Either situation causes the jacks to retract seemingly automatically.Guess I'll just run out there and check all this stuff again. Updates at ten.
