What did you do to your Class A MH today???
This is always a fun thread to watch, so I thought I would start one here.
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Well gang,
Upon returning home from the big event at Quartzsite, we noticed a "grinding" sound coming from the Kwikee steps as they were finishing the retraction process and seating for the travel position. The coach is an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330HP CAT and, it's presently touting right at 60,000 miles. The entry step has worked flawless for all those years. Now, it's got an issue.
So, long story short, I decided to dissect that gear box and see what's wrong. What I found was a bad gear. There's two in there. One, the "driven" gear, is about 3" in diameter and has one broken tooth and one, about to break. The second gear, the "drive" gear is in perfect condition. But, if you take a look at the pictures, you'll see that the broken tooth from the driven gear is lodged in between two teeth in the drive gear.
So, what I found out was, the driven gear only uses about half the circumference of teeth for it's operation. So, I rotated the driven gear since it's shaft would allow that, and, re-installed all of it.
It now works flawless and no grinding noises what so ever. Yahoooo!
Scott
Upon returning home from the big event at Quartzsite, we noticed a "grinding" sound coming from the Kwikee steps as they were finishing the retraction process and seating for the travel position. The coach is an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330HP CAT and, it's presently touting right at 60,000 miles. The entry step has worked flawless for all those years. Now, it's got an issue.
So, long story short, I decided to dissect that gear box and see what's wrong. What I found was a bad gear. There's two in there. One, the "driven" gear, is about 3" in diameter and has one broken tooth and one, about to break. The second gear, the "drive" gear is in perfect condition. But, if you take a look at the pictures, you'll see that the broken tooth from the driven gear is lodged in between two teeth in the drive gear.
So, what I found out was, the driven gear only uses about half the circumference of teeth for it's operation. So, I rotated the driven gear since it's shaft would allow that, and, re-installed all of it.
It now works flawless and no grinding noises what so ever. Yahoooo!
Scott
