Unusual Occurrence
While driving on some local back roads we had a strange thing happen. We had been driving for a few hours that day and are into about a month of our current U.S. tour. Only doing 35 to 40 MPH and on h...
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Captain_Happy wrote:
The same thing happened to my 2000 Damon Intruder, V-10 I use to own. Going down the highway, started slowing down, looked at the speedometer was at 0 mph, and my cruse control disengaged at the same moment. I pulled into the first rest area I can to and started looking the problem. Pulled off the cover to top of the engine looking for something that might have come disconnected. Didn't find a thing. Crawled under the motor Home looking the problem. don't really know for sure if what I did fixed the problem or not. On the side of the tranny there's 2 cables plugged into the tranny. Unplugged them both and then plugged them back in. So I just figured that I was going to have to drive the remaining trip home with no speedometer or cruse. started the Motor Home, pulled out of the rest area, speedometer is now reading, and after I got up to speed I engaged the cruse and it worked all the way home. Never happened again. Weird.
Actually it is not weird at all. After a few years exposed to the harsh environment and bouncing down the road, electrical connectors work loose and can have a certain amount of corrosion that effects their electrical conductance. Simple unplugging them and replugging them will usually fix the problem but it also shows that the connector is not sealing properly. Coating each connector with dielectric grease can help stop this from happening again.
