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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer.com. Today we have our Fleetwood Tioga and we're going to be taking a look at our steps. Now as you can see the electric steps currently function properly. However, there's a couple issues, the first step is way high off the ground, so if you have trouble getting up and down the stairs, this can make it unsafe getting in and out of your motor home. There're also pretty wobbly and that can cause you to lose your footing as well. Our new steps are going to be a great replacement and upgrade over these current ones.
It's going to add an additional step, which is going to put the last one a lot closer to the ground. So, that's going to make it a lot easier for us to get up and down.Something you don't always think about as well is if you have small pets, that might be hard for them to get up and down when it sits up so high, then that means you're going to have to bend over, to pick them up. Well, with this one down here that might allow them to easily get up and down without your help needed. These are definitely going to solve the problem of your step being too high off the ground. As you can see, this first one is really easy to reach, and there're also nice and wide, that way there're easy to travel up.
Now, each step does have some grip tape that way it ensures a good footing and they also have a bright yellow line to help you see in low light situations.As you can see our steps retract pretty quick, and now it's simple to get and then out of our motor home. Now these steps do have a couple of safety features. One of them being, say if you retract your steps and there's a curve here and they can't come out all the way, if it feels enough pressure, it'll actually turn off power to the motor, that way it won't overheat or burn up any wiring or your motor. Same thing on the inside, if something happens to get inside of here and the steps go in, it's going to feel that pressure and turn off the power.Another cool safety feature is when you have the steps in this position, when you have the power turned off on them, that way they'll stay fixed in this position. Or in other words, they won't work when you open and close the door.
If you happen to forget about turning the switch back on and you go to leave and put the key in the ignition, as soon as you put that key in the ignition and turn it forward, the steps are going to come up regardless. I'll show you that now.Even though we add in another step, when there're in the stored position, there're going to fit nicely in our opening. As you can see, the built-in bite underneath will help even more when it's nighttime. Now I went ahead and measured the step and on flat ground here from the ground to the top of the step is about 15 inches. Something you got to keep in mind is you're probably always going to be on perfectly level ground.
So, if you are parked in the ground is that we'll down, that 15 inches could potentially turn into 20 or more.From this step to the top of this one is right under eight inches. Now, although the distance between these two steps don't change, the distance from our bottom step to the ground is only seven inches as compared to the old one, which was 15 inches . The entry height will be 21 and seven eighths of an inch. The step dimensions will be 24 inches wide by 11 and one eighths of an inch deep. Our mounting bracket is going to be 23 and three quarters of an inch wide by nine and five, eight, seven inch tall, and finally 11 and three eights of an inch deep. Our drop and rise is going to be eight inches.These stops are very durable and do you have a 300 pound weight limit. That's a pretty straightforward installation, I'll show you how to do it now. To begin our installation, we're going to want our original steps to be extended. Go ahead and open our door to get them in that position. Then what we're going to want to do is make sure the power to our steps is turned off to remove our old steps. We're going to need to work underneath them right here. Now here on the bottom of the step, you can see we have our electric motor and all the connections, we're going to want to undo those connections. For these style of connections you simply push up on this tab and pull them apart from each other.For this style, there'll be a tab in the center and I want to push down on it and pull it out. There's going

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Hello! I am wanting to remove my automatic steps completely on my 1990 coachmen leprechaun. In the process of disconnecting I followed two cords all the way under the hood. It's connected to a piece there and I am wondering how to properly disconnect it at that point. I hope that makes sense. I have been searching the web and just can't find what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance!

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It is hard to say what the wires are for without seeing it but they are most likely a power and ground wire. You should be safe to just remove the wires from the connection or cap them off with a few wire nuts where they are at near the steps.
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