Gerald,
You just gave me a Christmas gift.....I was not aware of the access panel under the second step. I just went out and yanked quite a bit and sure enough my step came up. It was never obvious to me that the step was removable. I had checked and added fluid with a funnel from below in the past (usually with some choice words) thinking what a crappy design :-)
Every once in awhile another secret about these coaches gets revealed.... of course some of these secrets are probably in the manual gathering dust in the couch drawer.
later Ed
