Joan on the Road...of Life

Cliffside Park is 7 miles from Jellystone here in Racine County, WI. We should have come here first. What a lovely, well maintained, huge campsite park. We scoped it out after we dropped off the coach at Hanna Trailer and decided we'd move here and stay a few days. Although there are lots of trees we found several sites with satellite windows. Our site is so big I have a hard time fitting it all into a picture.

Jm is winding down after a hectic day. Here's how it unfolded. We took the coach over to Hanna Trailer at 8 AM. Of course, everything worked fne. We took off to have breakfast and waste time while the techs did their thing. After two hours we returned and the coach is sitting outside. Is this good or bad? Well, they could not duplicate our problems but did check out all the wiring and connections and found a "weather pack" connector that was not closed so they fixed that and said "possibly" that could be the trouble.

We drove to Cliffside Park, put down the jacks and suddenly the jack motor/pump started running and would not stop. It was like we were totally jacked up and it wanted to go higher. Only solution was turn off the switch and then it stopped. This happened 3 times so Jim called Hanna and said he was bringing it back.

Of course, when we got there....everything worked fine. Nothing they could do so we figured we're back to square one. Back at Cliffside everything worked fine and we got all set up. Jim called HWH, the jack system people, and our friend Frank told him to take the jack switch panel apart and look for "junk" in the box that might cause a short.

So that was today's project. To do that we had to pull in the slide, bring up the jacks and then he could look inside the jack switch box. It was full of schmutz...fuzz, dirt, little pebbles....yuk. Get the vacuum cleaner, Get the Q-tips.

After cleaning and rearranging a couple of wires, JIm closed up the box and ...voila...everything worked fine. I'd have to say that I think this may be the solution. It was reallly dirty and we've had prior experience with schmutz fouling up the electronic works. I really am amazed that several RV techs have looked inside this box and never bothered to clean it out. So we'll see....maybe the gremlin is gone. If not, I'm voting for a new control box because everything else has been checked out.

In the meantime we're going to enjoy 5 days here at Cliffside Park. Put this on your list of great places to stay if you want to be in the Chicago-Milwaukee area.

Oh ...I forgot to mention that while driving back to the park the second time the speedometer on the coach died. This means a repair trip to a Ford dealer. Will this never end? :)