Dead Truck Battery September 27, 2005, 05:07:58 pm Yahoo Message Number: 58454We are one week into a transcontinental LD road trip. While staying at a campground near Butte Montana we awoke to snow and a dead battery. I called The Ford Motorhome Customer Assist Line. The lady was not interested in my location. She assured me that all I needed to do was locate the "Emergency Battery Switch" throw that to Coach Battery and I could start the truck using the coach battery. She was insistent. I wasted an hour reviewing the Ford Owner's Manual and the LD Owner's Manual and then talked to another camper. He had seen my brake lights on the night before. I had indeed, stored some items in front of the driver seat and they had no doublt contacted the brake pedal. Mystery solved. We charged the battery for a few minutes and the truck fired right up. I let it run for fifteen minutes fefore shutting it down and we have had no further problem. Does anyone have such a swithch on their LD. Apparnetly some motorhome do. This is our second LD and I don't know of any such switch. I am a bit concerned over Ford support though.Nate Walker 2005 30TB Rapid City SD Fall colors in Spearfish Canyon are at their best.
Re: Dead Truck Battery Reply #1 – September 27, 2005, 05:44:23 pm Yahoo Message Number: 58456Quote "...was locate the "Emergency Battery Switch" throw that to Coach Battery and I could start the truck using the coach battery." "Does anyone have such a swithch on their LD. Apparnetly someQuotemotorhome do."Nate Walker 2005 30TB NateNo, the LD does not have a "Emergency Battery Switch", at least to my knowledge. There are however explicit directions in the owners manual on how to jumper the battery isolator in order to connect (temporarily) the coach batteries to the chassis battery for a jump start.However, the idea of an Emergency Battery Switch that would perform that function has a lot of merit, at least in my mind. Wonder why LD hasn't incorporated that by now? Oh, okay, don't bother to ask.Steve S. Lazy BonesP.S. The new shower skylight dome arrived today. Now I have to get up on the roof and replace the one that blew off on I-5 somewhere south of Red Bluff last week.
Re: Dead Truck Battery Reply #2 – September 27, 2005, 06:25:43 pm Yahoo Message Number: 58458Quote Does anyone have such a swithch on their LD. Apparnetly some motorhome do. This is our second LD and I don't know of any such switch. I am a bit concerned over Ford support though.Nate Walker 2005 30TB Rapid City SD Fall colors in Spearfish Canyon are at their best. Yes, someone does (g).I installed a continuous duty solinoid and small switch on the dash of my '05 MB, Yonder.I did a post on this a short while back, but don't have the message number.Not as convenient, but as Steve (of Lazy Bones fame) says, all you have to do is have a short jumper wire to connect the two outer terminal of the battery isolator.bumper
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