Ignition problem with my 2004 Journey 39K

[ericsdestiny]

2004 journey 39 k. I’m desperate. I went to turn over my coach and the board lit up for a second but when I went to crank it over all the dash lights went out and the engine won’t crank at all. Can anyone steal me in the right direction??? I checked the pop out fuses under the frig and hood. Everything is in tact. It feels like a fuse or something simple I just can’t figure it out.

 

[Morich]

Turn over the engine on the RV? That will be in the electrical system that is part of the stripped chassis for a truck that the RV part is built on!
So the fuses and breakers added by Winnebago will not be likely involved but look to the parts that would be on a normal truck of that type.
We don't get a lot of the drawings and such from Winnebago but have to go to the chassis builders for any really good info and they tend to hold it close as they have their own repair folks!
Do you have box that has only the fuses for normal truck items like headlights, horn, etc.? That would be the more likely place to find any blown fuse for the strarter system.

 

[be happy]

I think a little more information might be helpful. When you turn the key to the on position does the dash panel light up? When you turn the key to start the engine do you hear any kind of sound? When was the last time you started your coach? When you say under the hood, I take it you removed the metal cover that exposed all the fuses correct.
It takes alot of battery power to start these motors make sure your batteries are fully charged and up to the task of starting.
I had a problem starting mine a while back. Thought it was the batteries so purchased new chassis batteries. That seemed to help but still had starting problems. It ended up that the starter was going bad, once that was replace everything worked great.
These pages may help

Wiring Diagrams

 

[DutchmanAZ1]

check your battery voltage levels. Bet they're dead. If not, please post up.

 

[7997redtail]

I have an 08 sightseer and three are two body fuse boxes. One by my left foot when sitting in the driver's seat and another one the hood.

 

[Morich]

We can sometimes forget some of the neat items they have built into our RV! One is the switch to connect chassis battery and coach batteries together and we may be able to use that switch to help sort battery problems.
In this case, if the problem is the chassis battey low or plain bad, we can help find that problem if we push the switch to connect the coah in like getting a jump start without jumper cables!
This will not cure all problems but it can sometimes point us in the right direction.
But what we really need is more specifics on exactly what happens and when!
Do the lights come back on after we stop trying to crank?
Does the engine try to crank and start when we hold the boost switch?
An old trick was to use some metal item like old pliers to bridge around the contcts on the starter solenoid if we thought we had bad contacts in the solenoid. It was hard on the old pliers but it did let you start the car until you could scrape enough money to fix it right!
All those details can act as small hints for the fix we need.