I have a 2003 Dutch Star on a Freighliner chassis with a Cat 330 engine and 6 speed Allison transmission. I have a re-occuring problem with reverse gear. Last year I when I left for a trip to Arizona when I went to back out of my spot at home as soon as I shifted into reverse the engine died immediately. I tried it a number of times, drive gear was fine. I had hooked up a ground wire to the black wire on the back up alarm for a ground for my tow viehicle so thought that that might be the problem. In checking I cut off the ground wire from the horn and wiggled the wires on the backup horn and tried it again and it went into reverse. I thought that it had fixed the problem. The next time I tried to back up at a fuel station it happend again. I messed with the wires on the bu alarm and again it would back up. I noticed that one of the wires seemed pinched between the horn and the frame and loosened the horn and taped up the wire. It went into reverse. This happend once more when I got to where I was going to stay for the winter and got in touch with Freightliner repair shop and they told me they had never heard of the problem. I bought a new back up horn and spliced it in and it worked fine for the next 6 months during which time I had backed maybe 5 or 6 times. I started out today and backed up from my home on a trip to Airzona and when I tried to back up to line up better in my RV space it would not back up again. Hopefully someone else has had the problem.
Thanks,
Jim
Thanks,
Jim