Fleetwood Excursion slide questions, manual process?

Offroadr wrote:
My dining slide is giving me fits, local repair place says a powergear replacement motor is $900 just for the parts! DAMN!

I have a buddy that owns an electric motor shop that is going to try and cross reference it for me

That's full retail.

There are many on EBay for hundreds less be sure you get the correct part number.
You should be able to call the coach maker to get the latest part number as sometimes they have specd a different motor (higher torque) than what's in there. Also PPL sells at 20-30% off.

My dining slide is giving me fits, local repair place says a powergear replacement motor is $900 just for the parts! DAMN!

I have a buddy that owns an electric motor shop that is going to try and cross reference it for me

2005. My BR slide cranks in from inside. Mine blew the fuse,too. Never has since.
The big slides work the same way. I found the motor and lever ; the 1/2 drive is on the side of the gearbox where the motor is mounted.

You must be stronger than me; I didn't think the slide was that easy to crank in.
Not super hard but not easy.

My kitchen slide failed at year four, replaced under ext warranty.

On my 2005 39S Excursion I've cranked the bedroom slide in with a 1/2" ratchet from under the bed - very easy to do.

Big Katuna, it sounds like you cranked in your bedroom slide from the outside - what year is your Expedition? I've briefly looked for a similar crank on my larger slides, but haven't found one underneath the slide yet - need to do a little more looking.

To the OP, you should buy a couple of extra fuses for your bedroom slide. It uses the old style round fuses with glass centers. They're a slow blow fuse that are sometimes hard to find when you need them, but a regular fuse of similar amperage will work to get by. We've only blown it once and have no idea why it went, but we now have spare fuses.

Bill

If like my Expedition with Powergear electric slides, you crawl underneath, disengage the brake on the end of the motor, which is a mechanical lever hiding under the rubber cap, then put a 1/2 drive ratchet in the housing and starting cranking.

I did my bedroom slide. I can't imagine cranking a big slide unless the gearing is different.