First of all, I love it when I can out-troubleshoot somebody in any way shape or form...

Second - this may be the wrong forum simply because there is no forum for ford chassis based RV's.

Picture this - a FLEETWOOD BOUNDER on display in the front lot. It comes closing time, and the leveling jacks won't come up. A highly experienced service manager dives into the fray, and the coach ends up being locked up and left in the front lot because the jacks are still down.

This morning I began puzzling over the situation. It's new - so chances are nothing is broken, but someone may have interrupted the system somehow while it was retracting, or entered an impossible series of commands. Now the system is confused and won't operate correctly...

Answer?

I forced it into an "EMERGENCY RETRACT MODE of OPERATION". Easy enough to do, hold the brake pedal down, release the parking brake, PUT IT IN GEAR!

This sends the computer enough info to make it perform the electronic equivalent of yelling "OH NO!" and immediately begin retracting all landing gear...

After that I popped the parking brakes on (air) placed it back in neutral and operated the system somewhat normally.

It was no longer confused once I got it's attention!!!

 

NOTE: It was a "POWER GEAR" system.
They have "FAIL SAFE's" built in to prevent damage.

They also have a calibratable level sensing package that determines when the jacks are adjusted right.

(What seems like a level floor to one person might not look like it to another)

They have a programming means to set them to dead level on set-up.

Thereafter the floor is adjusted to exactly that pitch.