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            After mechanic at MCC resort fixed our Bode door we all were thinking that plunger pin was sticking and that was the problem and partialy it wa sthe problem.

We hit the road and two days later , door stop working ! only way to open was to pull the air out using bay valve and push the door by hand.

I took the switch panel out ( by the door ) where inlumiantor,selenoid switches and other light switches are and after looking at two selenoinds I noticed that the far away one ( door switch ) black plastic casing was cracked. After talking to Newell they walked me trough the mercury sensors in the bay where the door opener relay i located, I did eleiminated mercury sensor and just spliced two wires together.

My wife and I figured that we can check the selenoid switches by reversing contact wires and witch the wires from door lock selenoid ( good selenoid ) to the cracked one ( door open selenoid )

We than tried the door and worked each time , we had no lock since we used now only one elenoid but it was good fest fix.
Cheryl ordered from Newell over night new selenoid ( dont ask me how much was it , I dont want to know haha! ) I found that those are no longer in production and I am sure Newell has stack of them , they have replaced with more sofisticated one and harder to wire to our older Newells that is what they said on the phone to my wife.

When i reference check they were at one time for $24-40 on line , but again, I tried several sources and they said they are out of production!

Even the one we got from Newell it hase aditional 2-4 more spade contacts, not sure what for , we just left them alone !

After getting new selenoid , i found out that Newell existing wire tip fittings are to big! quick trip to Radio S. and I got one ize smaller fittings.

We put both elenoids together ( same time I replaced blown red door lock light ) never works and it heat up !!! I replaced with new LED type red light, smaller size from Radio S. I just cut the bottom part of the original one , pulled ald bulb and tight fitted new one, now I have nice led bulb there , no heat and should work for some 50,000 hrs

Anyway, our door works flowesly now! It was great to look in to entire sytem and learned how things work and whye the dont work.

also, please notice that when you need new elenoid from newell , the Tyco Co who made them have changed the part number ( please see the photo with info )

If your door ever stop working you might have problem with selenoid switch at the panel like we had and its easy to check and test them.

Well, we have 2 more problems to work on: need to rekay our door lock ( put new code since it got confused after repairs and wont lock now ) and on our way to Redding Ca are from Palm springs some 700 miles out fuel tank gauge is shoing emepty, looks like ground wiring or another ensor of sort?

always something !!! hehe part of the fulltiming live!!!

Sorry again guys for my bad english!!!