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Old 09-27-2015, 12:24 PM
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I'm curious if anyone has any experience with this or can point me in the right direction to fix it myself. I have a 29 Fountain Fever and the engine hatch is stuck closed. When I hit the switch for the hatch to open it just makes a low pitched clicking sound, it made the same sound when the hatch was completely open and you stayed on the switch. Anyhow, now it is stuck down and I've tried to manually lift it while someone is pressing the button and nothing.

In the back of the engine hatch I can remove the hinges and likely tilt the hatch from the back toward the front to get it open and detach it from the actuator, but I'm not sure if I should go about it that way or if anyone has any better ideas or input.

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Old 09-27-2015, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by 29Fever
I'm curious if anyone has any experience with this or can point me in the right direction to fix it myself. I have a 29 Fountain Fever and the engine hatch is stuck closed. When I hit the switch for the hatch to open it just makes a low pitched clicking sound, it made the same sound when the hatch was completely open and you stayed on the switch. Anyhow, now it is stuck down and I've tried to manually lift it while someone is pressing the button and nothing.

In the back of the engine hatch I can remove the hinges and likely tilt the hatch from the back toward the front to get it open and detach it from the actuator, but I'm not sure if I should go about it that way or if anyone has any better ideas or input.

Thanks

Mine did that yesterday,pulled up on hatch removed pin.Fixed wire connector that caused it.
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Old 09-28-2015, 09:57 AM
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Have some friends help you. Actuator is probably shot. They are not cheap but are needed
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What brand is it? I forget what mine is, it was making horrible noise when I lowered the hatch. I was fortunate the manufacturer was local so I dropped it off with them to rebuild. It only cost me $75 to rebuild it and make it like new.
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Originally Posted by ThisIsLivin
What brand is it? I forget what mine is, it was making horrible noise when I lowered the hatch. I was fortunate the manufacturer was local so I dropped it off with them to rebuild. It only cost me $75 to rebuild it and make it like new.
Good to know that a rebuild is possible as I'll likely need to do this sometime. I'm hoping that I may have the same lift in my Velocities. Please let me know if you remember the brand/manufacturer that did the rebuild for you. Thanks.
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