Recent content by wyleyrabbit

The basement floor on our 2009 Bighorn 3055RL has gone rotten on the off-door side. Clearly, the universe has decided it's time for me to do yet another project on our beloved trailer. I assume that others have done this job already. I don't know yet whether I need to replace only the part of...

Loading the trailer onto the truck this morning was the easiest in years. The motor wasn't straining at all. Thank you again to everyone here for their perspective and advice.

After this experience, I would most definitely agree! Anyone have recommendations on the best type of grease to use, how much to use, and how best to get it to the long screw?

It turns out that the motor was not at fault at all. The off-door-side leg was at fault, not the motor. We ended up with a seized leg, not the gears at the top...those were worn, but fine. It was the leg that was seized up. I ordered a new leg from the folks at Venture and installed it...

Good news and bad news friends. Good news is, I think my motor is actually fine. Bad news is the off-door landing gear leg bolt has sheared off at the top where the square steel tube connected to the motor on the door-side. I guess if something had seized up in there, that's why the motor...

I phoned the dealership where we originally purchased our Bighorn from. Yep, they quoted me $1,145 for exactly the same motor that's on Amazon for $315 with free prime shipping. These guys have zero shame.

Thank you. I picked up a "wing nut kit" from my local hardware store and a 12" extender. I'll know tomorrow for sure but this should do the trick!

Here's a quick question for everyone. Our landing gear has a manual crank connection that is accessible through the battery compartment, and we have a manual crank. If I could use my power drill or impact driver to turn this, it would mean that I wouldn't have to use the bottle jacks while I...

I'm intrigued about this option. Do you know how many brushes there are? And what size? I'm a handy guy, I wonder if I could buy the right size of brushes and DIY this.

Bogie, mine is most definitely gear-driven at least for the landing gear. My slides are hydraulic though, but that motor is fine.

Are you sure? New motor looks to be about $200. You paid $150 for brushes and the rebuild.

Yesterday, I cleaned and tightened all of the battery connections, I removed and redid the marrettes connecting the trailer wiring to the motor leads. Definitely making good contact. Batteries were at 100% when I took the video. I've taken some video that illustrates the problem: I'm...

I haven't. I'll give that a try. My challenge is right now the unit is in the storage field, so aside from solar charging my batteries I have no way of charging the batteries (no electrical there).

Yep, it makes a noise like it's really struggling. No fuse issues.

Batteries are good. We have a pair of 6V golf cart batteries that are only perhaps a couple of years old. They're kept up by the pair of solar panels on the roof. I haven't. My understanding is, according to conversations I've had with the folks at Lippert is that the landing gear legs should...