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Check the screw holding the Fiberglas wheel well cover to the frame. These work loose allowing the cover to move causing that hard to trace rattle. There is one at the lower rear end of that cover. Dick L. ‘04 Imperial

I don’t see anywhere that you have checked or suspect the chassis battery condition or their connections. If they aren’t charging from any of the sources (generator, engine, or the convertor) the common thread is the batteries or the connections. If you have another charger, disconnect them from the rest of the coach using the battery main switch or float the ground connection and see if they will charge. dick L. 04 Imperial

My generator is on a slide and had a similar problem. After checking all the usual suspects, I noticed that the fuel supply hose had a wet spot on it. The flexing as the genset moved in and out had caused it to crack, causing it drain and leak air when I tried to start it. Replacing that hose fixed the problem. dick L. ‘04 HR IMPERIAL

Here’s a photo of the rear electrical bay of my ‘04 Imperial which is a contemporary of your coach. The fuse is clearly visible dick L. ‘04 Imperial

What happened to the files section of the original Monacoers site? Did they get lost in the transition to the new site? dick L. ‘04 Imperial

A google search for “power gear slide motors” shows that the motors are still available, but pricey. It also confirms my memory that there are only two wires fir the motor and gear box assembly. Unless there is some weird internal problem in the assembly that jams in reverse, your motor is fine and your problem is in the control circuity. dick L ‘04 Imperial.

Your experience is very similar to mine. House batteries would not charge until I hit the boost button. Then they would behave normally. I have an ‘04 Imperial which has an Intellec IRD. The IRD sends a signal when the chassis batteries have reached 13 volts or so, indicating that the alternator has pretty much charged them and it can handle the high current from the additional house batteries. When I investigated my system, I found that the signal to the IRD was always lower than the chassis batteries, causing the IRD to not tell the IRD to connect. It seems that the place the IRD got the chassis voltage was being reduced by loads on that line. My solution was to add another relay which connected the IRD to a solid voltage source. I did this in 2009 and have not had any problem with house batteries being charged since. i don’t know if you have an IRD or not. The Intellec IRD is located on that big fuse panel located in the driver side outside area. Another indication will be that you have a Lambert LE 415 to charge the chassis batteries from shore or genset power. it looks that the files from the old Monacoers group was lost with the new group, but I did a write up which was there. Dick L ‘04 Imperial