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When we set up camp and lower the levelers everything seems fine. All four deploy and level the coach. However after a day or so the front left seems to lose tension and gradually drops that quadrant down. I have checked fluid level and that seems fine. What do I do from here?
Don't know what the level up system you have but I would be calling the manufacture, they should be able to advise you. I believe you have a internal seal leaking... Just a SWAG. Happy Trails......
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Don't know what the level up system you have but I would be calling the manufacture, they should be able to advise you. I believe you have a internal seal leaking... Just a SWAG. Happy Trails......
x2 Do they have springs to raise them? If not, it could be a check value leaking if only one is retracting. That failure probably wouldn't show up on the ground as lost fluid. Either way - time to call the maker and get some advice. Your not first and won't be the last to call with this problem.
It sounds like a leak in the ram itself. Have you checked all the hoses,fittings and connection points? If there is no fluid then a seal has blown inside the ram or pump itself. Its usually an O-ring that goes bad. Its kinda hard to diagnose without knowing the system and how it was built..
Look at the "dish" part that sits on the ground at the end of the hydraulic ram. Is there fluid there? If not move upstream towards the reservoir. Somewhere there is probably a leak. Once you've located the leak, you can probably google up a way to repair it. A new jack will set you back a bundle so if you can repair the leak yourself you'll be ahead. I just spent 11 hundred clams to have a jack replaced because I didn''t have the time and place to do it myself. The jack alone was almost 800 bucks.
I just had the front jack on my Monaco MH rebuild due to a leak. I noticed fluid on the pad the contacts the ground. Fortunately the builder of the jacks (RVA) was only 60 miles from me. The owner pulled me into the workshop to show me the jack once they had it appart. It had a small amount of dirt that was causing the leak. No damage to the O-ring but they repolaced it anyway. The owner claim the dirt got into the system during Monaco's assembly of the jack while building the coach....who knows.
Spending several hours with the 74 year old owner he told me a little bit about his company. Like the fact after building jacks for Monaco for some 15 years, the new Monaco decided to go with a non American jack company. This has reduced his company from 45 people to 5 and they are just doing rebuilds. I see another American company bitting the dust in the not so distant future.
