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wa8yxm
Dec 14, 2013Explorer III
I am typing this from the main slide out on a 2005 Damon Intruder... I will make an assumption here, you have the same slide out I have, a Power Gear Rack & Pinion system. This comes with a slide lock rod that goes in the front when on the road.
First, Remove the lock bar
now, open the basement compartments below the slide, Epically the one under the MIDDLE of the slide..Look at the top of the compartment for a portal.. Unscrew the round plug and, Well I just stored mine
Reach up and you should feel the end of the motor, on the end, under the rubber cap you should feel a lever.. It does not move far, but it does move, and once moved it stays there... Move it.
Now get two of the biggest assistants you can find and HEAVE (Push the slide out) I can do this myself, but I am 300 pounds.
Once it is out, look at the underside, you should see a pair of toothed rails (RACKS) and where they go into the rig a pair of gears (Pinion gears) these two gears are connnected by square shafts to the motor in the middle, If you are lucky there will be a 3/4" nut (Likely over another portal) on one or the other end.
While watching the shaft have your partner operate the slide out switch, NO MORE THAN ONE SECOND (you do not want to get caught by the slide)
If you see the square shaft move but the gears do not turn.. You have sheared your shear pins.. If the shaft does not move,, See if the pins on the motor/transmission end are sheared.
These pins are quarter inch grade 8 bolts with nylock nuts.
Get the shortest bolt where the smooth, non-threaded, portion of the shank is long enough to go all the way through the square shaft, Get some thick washers and new nylock nuts.
That should get it moving again.
now the hard part.. Lining it up... I hope you can figure out how to do that. But if it's the shear pins, Let me knwo.
If it is Not the shear pins, then it will remain lined up with no problems.
First, Remove the lock bar
now, open the basement compartments below the slide, Epically the one under the MIDDLE of the slide..Look at the top of the compartment for a portal.. Unscrew the round plug and, Well I just stored mine
Reach up and you should feel the end of the motor, on the end, under the rubber cap you should feel a lever.. It does not move far, but it does move, and once moved it stays there... Move it.
Now get two of the biggest assistants you can find and HEAVE (Push the slide out) I can do this myself, but I am 300 pounds.
Once it is out, look at the underside, you should see a pair of toothed rails (RACKS) and where they go into the rig a pair of gears (Pinion gears) these two gears are connnected by square shafts to the motor in the middle, If you are lucky there will be a 3/4" nut (Likely over another portal) on one or the other end.
While watching the shaft have your partner operate the slide out switch, NO MORE THAN ONE SECOND (you do not want to get caught by the slide)
If you see the square shaft move but the gears do not turn.. You have sheared your shear pins.. If the shaft does not move,, See if the pins on the motor/transmission end are sheared.
These pins are quarter inch grade 8 bolts with nylock nuts.
Get the shortest bolt where the smooth, non-threaded, portion of the shank is long enough to go all the way through the square shaft, Get some thick washers and new nylock nuts.
That should get it moving again.
now the hard part.. Lining it up... I hope you can figure out how to do that. But if it's the shear pins, Let me knwo.
If it is Not the shear pins, then it will remain lined up with no problems.
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