looking for owners of 2004-2005 Pace Arrows

sawellman wrote:
For those of you with Power Gear jacks what has been your experience?

My experience is much the same as yours. I'm very unhappy with the Power Gear jacks!

I've given up using auto mode. It lifts the rear jacks first, and since my rig is always nose low that's the wrong way to start the leveling process. I now use manual, first trying to get the nose up high enough to reach level, then extending the rear jacks just until they touch.

And like you have experienced, if the site is not pretty much level, the jacks do not have enough travel to get the rig level. Power Gear has explained this to me as insufficient space between the chassis (where the jacks are mounted) and the coach floor (the upper limit of the retracted jack leg), which limited the jack leg length that could be used. I suspect this space limitation came about because of the 7-foot ceiling introduced in 2004. And I also suspect Fleetwood recognized the problem and went with the Atwood jacks for 2005 and later model years.

Someone asked if it was possible to extend a single jack leg. One of our rear jacks often fails to extend properly, so I've learned how to do this—simultaneously press both a right/left button and a front/rear button. For example, to extend the right rear jack, press the right and rear buttons at the same time.