The New Levelers are IN!

A call to HWH in Iowa last week got four jacks ordered and on their way to us. Our system had pretty much stopped working as it should after several tries to get it back on line by the McGrath's over 6 weeks.

There's a little green light that tells you all levelers are stored and your may now roll.  It wasn't coming on, or staying on and the engine would not start. Darn computers!

The levelers arrived Monday.  But low and behold they weren't complete leveler assemblies as ordered, they were only the leveler cylinders!  45 minutes of me on the phone with HWH and several emails later we connected John McGrath with one of the HWH techs and they agreed together that the problem could be solved with the parts we already had. Great Computers!

So today Mona and I camped out at Panera Bread in Exeter, PA all day to make use of their marvelous free refills on coffees, hot and ice teas, and a couple of their super salads and of course select baked goods made on site this morning! After all, I had to write my last sermon's first draft somewhere!

John spent ALL DAY on those levelers.  Over 8 hours! He said he mashed several fingers getting the springs back on (2 super heavy duty springs for each of the four cylinders).                                                                                Darn Computers!

And tonight, the coach is level, with a single wood block under each leveler pad, and QUO stored, dropped, and stored them again fully automatically. Great computers!

And now we think we know what caused the whole problem to begin with. A bad sensor in the front right leveler would not work even with the new cylinder installed.  It may be why the right front leveler over extended itself and cracked its seals 6 weeks ago. After working and working with it John simply turned it off, and with the computer not being told that leveler was in an unsafe position the green dash  light came on and all went well. He had successfully fooled it into thinking all was OK.  But it was OK.  So that was OK. Darn computers!

No problem, really.  An RV driver should NEVER trust only their gauges, dials and computer whatchamacallits. So I've already learned to check the fluid tanks by sight, the slide out rooms before we move them, the levelers before we call them set down or stored up.  Etc.

This 2006 RV has almost every system controlled by computers.  Imagine what a 2014 RV's controls look like! And how often a used RV owner 8 years from now will have to trick a computer into thinking everything is fine.  When it really is.  Though it looks like its not.  but it is. Darn great computers!

-Ken