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Bruce Benson:
John,

I hate it when that happens!  It is really hard to fix something that won't stay broke.  I guess you could leave it on until you experience the problem again.  It does seem strange that it eventually works.  Perhaps mine would have but I never had the patients.  I think that mine failed coming in as well.  

I am not aware of any alignment procedure.  Don't think that you could hurt it .  Just getting the tab back in is a bit of a challenge though.  Perhaps you are just more alert to the sound now?

I have operated mine without the brake for about 40,000 miles now.  This includes trips to Alaska along with way too many (according to my wife) turns that were made much too fast.  Mine has never budged.  I took it off on the advice of Mike Flowerday, who was the service manager at Beaver Coach Sales before they took over the service center from Monaco.  He felt it was not needed and my experience has been that he was right.

Good luck!

Bruce  

George Harwell:
John, I have an 03 monterey that has several times experienced the same problem but mine  includes the hydraulic jacks also. Every time I access the switch, remove the wire terminals and rough up the metal blades on the switches. Since the wire terminals push onto the blades there isn't much you can do with them. I believe we are dealing with sub standard materials and they often fail to conduct elect. when the switch is engaged. My most recent episode was in June with the slideout switch. I did my usual repair and it is working fine so far. If it ever fails beyond my normal repair I plan to replace the wire terminals with new high quality parts. Good luck.

John Fearnow:
Thanks George.  Maybe with mine it is a problem with the wire terminal fitting that the switch blades slide into.  That might explain why it only happens when extending the slide.  Only the connections for the extend side wires are bad or loose?  There were not any visibly loose wires when I replaced the switch. I might see if Bend has a new terminal.

John

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