Carpet Pieces on top of Underbelly Enclosure
After a recent 2000 mile trip I was cleaning the Monty and noticed some oil on the underbelly (insulation) enclosure toward the back of the trailer. Upon further inspection, there was significant oil leaking out from the enclosure. Sooooo, I dropped the rear stabilizers, spare tire, and holder, and enclosure to find the source of the oil. Near as I could tell there were some small leaks in the hoses and plumbing for the slide hydraulics. I tightened fittings and cleaned everything up. What is puzzling is that there were three strips of carpet about 18 inches by 48 inches laid on top of the underbelly material. They were running crossways of the trailer in the vicinity of the hydraulic cylinders and had quite abit of oil in them. Don't think it was an accident from the building of the Monty since the carpet is different then the carpet in the Monty and was place pretty much under the cylinders.
Has anyone seen this??? What do you think the carpet is for? Is it normal to place carpet under the cylinders?? Is some leakage expected?? Has there been a problem or leak during build and this was the way to "clean up"??? I took them out and didn't replace them.
How full is the slide reservior susposed to be?
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