We had been blowing fuses on a regular basis for quite some time. Ours is located, as someone said, a few feet from the switch almost behind the battery.
Our problem is fixed now, but for clarification I'll let you know what happened. As I said we had been blowing fuses on a regular basis. I have been carrying a box or two of extra fuses, I so wish it was a circuit breaker. We planned a trip to Yellowstone for over a year and were thinking about going for over 6 years before that. Where DW works time off can be hard to get and extended time off is just unheard of. We left about a day early, because she got off after about half a day, and we started out. We made it to a state park about 8 hours from home and decided to spend the night. The landing gear worked flawlessly when we set-up. The next morning we started getting ready to go and within seconds the first fuse snapped. Then the second fuse of the day snapped, I got out the hand crank. It was very hard to crank, eventually it wouldn't work at all. I had to really horse on it, eventually it snapped. The gear broke internally. By now I'm ready to throw a fit. Our 5er has been in our possession less than a year. This is our 2nd 5er and we are accustomed to, "stuff will go wrong" when traveling. I ended up having to jack the truck up to get the pressure off the legs to raise the lower parts of the landing gear enough to clear the ground. In the meantime... DW got out our stuff that came with the 5er. We were successful in getting the name of a Heartland dealer in Caldwell ID to attempt a fix. DW contacted someone at Heartland, i have crs but she would remember the name, this guy was nothing short of awesome. He worked with the dealer to let them know we were coming. The dealer found us a guy who would fix the landing gear the next day, Saturday, as the shop was closed. Then we found out UPS was going to let us down. They don't deliver in Caldwell ID on Saturday, big brown really let us down after all the work the folks at Nelson's and Heartland had done. They then made arrangements to send the parts to our dealer, Guaranty RV in Junction City OR. At that point I was ready to bag the trip. There was no way I was going to drag a 5er through Yellowstone every day we had planned to be there. Luckily the DWs cooler head prevailed. We continued to the RV park at West Yellowstone MT. I had called the park and let them know I couldn't disconnect the truck from the trailer. The folks at "Hideaway RV Park" totally helped us out too, they got us to a space where we could leave the truck and trailer connected and not hamper their operation. We did rent a car for "touring" the park, that too worked out in the long run, we paid about half what we would have for fuel with the unloaded truck if it had been available. After paying for the car rental we only paid a little more overall. When we came home we drove straight to Guaranty RV in Junction City and they took it in and handled the whole thing.
