Journey with Confidence RV GPS App RV Trip Planner RV LIFE Campground Reviews RV Maintenance Take a Speed Test Free 7 Day Trial ×
 


Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
 
Old 10-12-2020, 10:03 AM   #1
Winnebago Camper
 
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Cazadero,Ca
Posts: 16
HWH levelers

Hi all, I have a 97 Vectra DP with the HWH 310 system. I purchased the moterhome about a year ago and the levelers never worked. I could only get the left rear one to go up and down. This week when we got to our camp site I went to drop the one leveler and the whole leveling system went down and leveled. Now it seems to work fine. Does anyone have an answer as to why the system just decided to work? Confused Bob
Bobli is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2020, 10:19 AM   #2
Site Team
 
creativepart's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Spring Branch, TX
Posts: 7,818
The drive charged up the chassis battery enough to actually work the system properly?

Try it with the engine running.
__________________
2017 Winnebago Adventurer 37F
2016 Lincoln MKX Toad
creativepart is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2020, 10:57 AM   #3
Winnebago Master
 
Jim_HiTek's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Full time RV'er
Posts: 1,177
Those older HWH systems used a large bolt welded to the chassis and brought all the system grounds together at that one point. Over time, it would get corroded and parts of the system would lose the ground that allowed it to operate. So you could have symptoms all over the map as different parts of the system lost their ground. Vibration could bring it all back. Cold weather would cause systems to fail, and as it warmed up during the day, they'd start working again.

With all that in mind, check under the RV near the hydraulic manifold for a large stud with numerous white wires with ring terminals all bolted to it. Winnie uses white as the ground lead color.

Remove the nut (if you can, sometimes it's rusted on so tightly the bolt breaks off) and clean all the terminals. And clean the bolt and nut. On my RV, the bolt snapped off so I had to drill a couple holes and make new attachments for the ring terminals nearby.

Here's my ad free article about it: HWH Hydraulic Slide Control... | Chaos Leaves Town

And here's a picture of the grounding stud below the hydraulic manifold of my '02 HWH system.



I missed that stud several times as I tried to find a cause of the intermittent operation of the slides...but my jacks always worked. I always worked on it from the upper right side and that stud is low down on the left towards the front area...but underneath.

Once all those terminals were cleaned and a new ground made for them, haven't had any more trouble with the slides or jacks. Oh, wait, did have an inline 40 amp fuse and socket right near the manifold that was so corroded it just open circuited one day. Entire hydraulic system shut down suddenly. I was at an RV park so extended my stay since the slides wouldn't move in. Had to replace the entire fuse assembly but Napa carries generic stuff that worked fine.
__________________
'02 Winnebago Journey DL, DSDP, 36' of fun.

Visit my RV Travel & Repair Blog at : https://chaos.goblinbox.com
Jim_HiTek is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
hwh, levelers


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Winnebago Electrical & Plumbing Diagrams, Parts, and HWH Levelers/Slides Diagrams DriVer General Maintenance and Repair 95 09-16-2021 11:31 AM
Fuses for HWH Levelers Kend51 General Maintenance and Repair 6 06-01-2014 02:40 PM
HWH Levelers rogo88 General Maintenance and Repair 14 04-03-2013 02:08 PM
HWH Levelers RocketDork General Maintenance and Repair 7 10-27-2007 05:19 PM
HWH levelers question Dave from MN General Maintenance and Repair 7 01-17-2005 07:23 AM

» Featured Campgrounds

Reviews provided by

Disclaimer:

This website is not affiliated with or endorsed by Winnebago Industries or any of its affiliates. This is an independent, unofficial site.


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 12:19 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.