please help-slide problems
Please help, I am full-timer in a 2012 Open Range Light 5th wheel. I am having slide problems and have read and heard so many conflicting opinions! My dining room slide will not retract due to the f...
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ScottG wrote:
Never heard of a "compression block" but slides either have rollers or a strip of hard, (suaully white) plastic that they ride on as they come in. This piece of plastic spans the width of the slide and you can see it if you lift the flap of carpet at the front of your slide.
The front edge of the slide simply rides up on either of these two conveyances.
If someone has stepped on the unspported front edge of the slide floor while it is partially in, it can brake that long plastic guide piece. (at least that's how I broke one..) Then the slide will grind along the top of the floor and/or carpet.
I would inspect these parts carefully.
If the plastic guide is broken, you either need to have it replaced or even better, do as I did and modify the floor to accept rollers (BIG job).
Thanks Scott! The RV slide has rollers and these "compression blocks" are nylon wedges positioned under each roller and serve to lift the rollers and the slide floor.
