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This is only made as a POSSIBLE aid in troubleshooting and repairing the slide fault on some Fleetwood motor homes. Use at your own risk and peril. Wearing loose fitting clothing and pinch points can lead to bodily harm or death. Please proceed with care. Remember: "SLOW IS SMOOTH AND SMOOTH IS FAST." This is a reply made in 2024 long after this guys problem. I am making it because no one seems to know where the slide control relays are located on a 2004 Fleetwood Flair 33R. To make your search a little easier, I have a front slide and a large rear slide called a wardrobe slide. Because Fleetwood likes to refer to their "schematics", which are a JOKE and should not be called that, (I am an electrical engineer) I will tell you where the control relays are located on my unit which is mounted on a Ford chassis with the Ford Triton engine. On the right hand side of the engine bay looking at it from the front of the vehicle is the transmission fluid reservoir. Above it about 6-8 inches is a UNLABELED metal box about 2 inches deep by 3 inches wide and about 5 inches in length. Underneath the cover in the box are located two relay boards, one for the front slide and one for the rear slide. One of the boards in my box was contained in a sealed plastic box with a warning that violating the seal would void the warranty. Thats because the circuit is so simple, unskilled persons could probably figure out how to fix it, not that I am suggesting you should. The other board was open and 2 relays are visible with an auto-resettable fuse and a small common cylindrical fuse. If you know how to solder, you might get a soldering iron and good solder and resolder all of the connections. Please do not goober up the solder joints by making big solder blobs. You don't need a lot of solder, just enough to get the existing solder to flow around the pins. As soon as you see the solder liquefy, STOP and remove the heat. You have reflowed the solder. This repaired my problem of the rear slide not retracting in. It extended fine, but did not retract. How did I know to look for the relays. I found the motor for the slide under the bed under the wooden bottom which comes off with 6 screws and there it is. By the way, a 15/16 in, end wrench and by pushing the brake release on the back of the motor to the rigtht, unplugging the motor and putting your wrench on the square tubing drive shaft you can manually move the slide in or out. Anyway with the motor unplugged, and a dc volt meter leads pushed into the two pins on the non-motor side of the connection, meter set for 20 volts dc, have another person putsh the out button and monitor the meter. It will read either 12 vdc or -12 vdc. If no volts measured, the wiring to the relay or the relay or the poor solder connection may be compromised. Try moving in the opposite direction looking for voltage on this connector. Same prognosis. If no volts when either direction is pushed, look for blown fuses or try starting your vehicle as this is required on a Fleetwood to move the slides. Of course, always check for connections in the wire harness. If you continue to blow fuses after reconnecting the motor, you might need a new one. I am sure I did not cover all of the bases here so look elsewhere OR take to your dealer and pay him lots of your hard earned money. Good luck!
- WanderingJayAug 03, 2024Explorer
I MUST ADD THAT MY SLIDE CONTROL IS A POWER GEAR SLIDE SYSTEM. VERY IMPORTANT.
- way2rollAug 04, 2024Navigator II
Not sure if you noticed but you are responding to a post that's 7 years old.
- opnspacesAug 04, 2024Navigator II
Yeah most don't catch the age of posts. But in this case he called that out on sentence 6 that he knew it was answering an old post. It would have probably been better as a new post, but at least the info is now here to be searched.