Slides out or autolevelers down first?

Rick Jay wrote:

way2roll wrote:
So we just brought home our new MH and my perspective has changed a bit. The new one the MBS chassis requires the engine to be running to put the slides out, but requires the engine to be off to put down the jacks. This literally forces me to put the slides out first - something I have never done on any RV I have owned. granted this is a C but wanted to note that the process really is unique to the unit.

way2roll,

That is interesting. Is that what the procedure states in the manual, or is that the way the system operates as it's wired?

~Rick

The way it's built. The manual is a little ambiguous and covers levelers in one section generally and then for each specific chassis. Mine is the MBS. Same with slides. While it does say in the manual the rv should be level before operating slides, the way my unit is manufactured you cannot run levelers before slides. Slides require that the engine be running - not plugged in - actually running. The control panel greys out the slides until the engine icon is green. The jacks will not operate with the engine running - same thing they wont work until the engine is off. Inversely you cannot start the engine with the jacks down. So you are forced to operate the slides before jacks when setting up and then jacks before slides when breaking camp.

I confirmed it this morning with a FR engineer.

Seems odd to me, but it's a smaller MH and the slide isn't very big with no appliances in it, so, it is what it is.