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My LP gas sensor alarm started to beep. One beep about every 30 or 40 seconds. it is located on the kitchen cabinet baseboard below the gas cook-top. there is no gas leak I can detect. I pushed the reset button and light went green and the beep stopped. I thought that was the end of it - but today it was beeping again. I rest it again. Now what? I had a similar beep on my smoke detector - which was telling me the battery was low and needed to be replaced. Does the LP detector have a (backup) battery in it? It is hard wired to my House batteries. Or is it just telling me the whole unit needs to be replaced (aged out)? I wouldn't be surprised if there was some detector inside it that thinks I have not spent enough money on the coach lately so it's going off telling me to buy something☺️ is it a "Safe-T-Alert model 40-442-P".

What you describe is normal. The Exhaust brake can only do so much to hold (or slow) the coach speed downhill (depending on weight of coach and road grade). Once the engine reaches a certain speed the transmission will up shift to protect the engine from over speeding. You have to then brake hard and steady to get the speed back down. The gear that the transmission goes to when the exhaust brake is turned on is "programmed to". On my coach it is set for 4th gear. It will not just "drop" into 4th (the vehicle/engine speed needs to be in the proper range for that gear). So say you're moving at 50 mph down a steep grade (in 6th gear), you use the brakes and exhaust brake to slow down, and the transmission will downshift to 5th as you slow then into 4th. It will stay in 4th with engine rpm at, say 2100 - 2400, but if the down hill speed starts to increase again (hill is just too steep) you have to step on the brakes again or transmission will up shift,

Yes, I run it in and out at Travel height (as the manual says to do). When my slide comes it it is leaning out so the bottom front of room hits the stop first the (outside wall of coach) then the top pulls in. If it came in level (or with less slope) it would not scrape the ceiling. I could remove the wood trim piece at the top (above cabinets) of the slide room and trim/shave it down some so it doesn't hit the ceiling, but that would only be addressing the symptom. I would like to figure out exactly what is worn and correct for the problem. I have not looked that closely at your slide room. Is it the same as mine? Have you seen the Teflon pads (the gap under my slide room floor it too small for me to see anything). How can one get to those pads to replace? I wonder if adding some stainless steel plating on the bottom of the room (like the Guardian Plate) would tak eup for any wear in the Teflon (if that is the problem).

Not Toyo, but I paid $671 (plus mounting) for 295/80R22.5 Michelin XZA2 Energy through the FMCA Tire Discount program.

My 2005 Beaver has a room slide out that I think it is an SMC design (see the SMC brochure description below describing the slide). It has two large beams on the bottom that supports the room which slides on an internal beam/rail which goes through the frame. This is the front Roadside Slide. There are no floor rollers (I cant see/tell for sure) but it was said that it uses large Teflon blocks to ride on. It has a single hydraulic cylinder. There is a recessed "metal pan" that that the slide room drops into when the room is fully extended (sort of a flat floor design although the floor is still two inches or so above the coach floor). You can see this is the photo below of the interior. I think it is a modified Power Gear setup (although Power Gear uses electric motors). I searched all the Power Gear literature and the picture I posted below is the closest I could find. I'm not sure if that is what I have or not. Did SMC use Power Gear in the mid-2000's? I need info on the Teflon slides (I believe mine are worn or something else is worn) as the room rube the ceiling wood trim when it comes in. I would like to get some info on this mechanism (part numbers for Teflon slides) and whether or not there are rollers on the inside ends of the support tubes. Trying to figure out how to fix the problem of the top wood trim of slide room rubbing on the ceiling wood trim when the room is retracted.

Okay. I think I got it. Thanks

I have a ton of wiring diagrams for Monacos. I see there are categories (like Electrical - Wiring Diagrams) Rather than just upload each one individually, is there a way to create a "folder" (like 2005 Dynasty) that I can upload into when I have multiple files for the same model/year coach? I have some Wiring Diagrams where all the components are in one file, and some where each wiring diagram is a separate file by component (those need to stay together).

The document has been added.

I see a section for "Articles" but I do not see a "button to post" or "upload a file". I have an Article (document) I created on the history and chassis types for Beaver, SMC, Monaco I would like to share. Mike S. 2005 Beaver Patriot Thunder