5th Wheel Landing Gear

While camping this weekend, I mentioned to a fellow camper that my landing gear was out of sync (one foot hitting the ground before the other). He said if I were to raise the landing gear all the way up, the feet would realign and hit the ground at the same time, provided the ground was level.

I decided to try that when I got home today. So, I raised the landing gear up all the way. When it reached the upper limit, the motor stopped and hasn't worked since. So I used the manual crank and got unhooked. I have a hard time the swithc picked that exact moment ot go out.

Does anybody have any ideas? Thanks