What Did You Do To Your B+ Recently ?

garmp wrote:
We have our RV in storage for the couple of hot months and finally got tire covers. Small accomplishment, but makes me happy! Also interested in the slide maintenance answers, as all this is new to us.

The slide in my 09 Cambria in the bedroom would only go out a foot then stop, another foot then stop. The motor was heating up causing the internal protector to trip.

I removed the mattress, plywood cover for access to the screw, found gunk built up on the sliding mechanism. Using strong cleaners I removed said gunk, varnish, and re-lubed with a silicone spray. All was good and then it happened again. Process repeated but used a spray specifically for slides and it worked fine.

We camp in the dusty,dirty desert. My guess is the fine dust gets in there and clings to anything it can find. There is no external access so everything is from inside.


Front slide. 2/3 of the way home on a 300 mile drive, I pull into a rest area and as I turned my front slide moved out a few inches. I did not have the slide lock in place. I went and inspected the slide rails outside and found one of the rail "stops" was broken, the weld failed.
Installed the slide lock on the rear of the slide, drove home,and welded it in place. Haven't had an issue since.

Now what maintenance is required on slides? Keep the slides clean, use lubricant designed for that purpose and know a welder just in case.