Our rig’s levelers stopped working the other day. Fortunately we discovered this when trying to level verses trying to retract.
I crawled under our RV and discovered a wire hanging down in front of the rear tires. The inside control panel showed no power.
We had driven on some rough roads duting the previous few days, which could have caused the issue. Looking on youtube, I discovered other people had issues with the ground wire connector for the leveler control component (mounted on the middle of the chassis with the fill reservoir in front of the rear tires). The common cause was corrosion. That’s what I figured this was.
So I disconnected the house battery, and crawled under to find the connections. Sure enough, one end of the cable was still bolted to the chassis with the other end dangling with a broken o-connector on it. So I had to hunt for the original connection with the other half of the o-ring.I found a – (neg) pole on the side of the leveler component and carefully loosened the bolts to reveal the other half o ring.
The cable looked like a battery cable – it was 4-gauge 24” with o-ring comnectors at both ends. I called one of the auto parts stores and that turned out to be be the best source – already made up and about $10. An easy cost-effective bolt-on solution. Yeah O’Reilly Auto Parts of Yucca Valley, CA!