Steps not retracting all the way
Hope someone can give us help. Traveling and can't get the steps to retract like the should. Tried oiling and silicon nothing helped so far. Is there a place I'm missing? They retract just fine if som...
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It has been many years ... but on my previous coach with kwikee steps there were 4 plastic disks in the gear housing that were hardened. They were a dampening mechanism, it seems, which allowed the steps to park. The motor protection would take it out before it was damaged leaving the steps where binding was occurring. Someone here had the advice of soaking them in brake fluid allowing them to regain elasticity and reinstalling until new parts could be found. I never had to go back in there. Maybe this "memory" I've had can trigger someone into giving a better description of your problem.
