JBarca wrote:
Stewie Griffin wrote:
Okay, so the wife and I purchased a 2018 Jayco Seismic 4212 last year and we noticed right off the bat that our galley slide seemed sluggish and possibly out of alignment.
Well, we used it a lot last year and after some time, it started really struggling to come in at first. Most times, it will come in an inch at a time for a bit, then eventually come in normally.
Now, this has tracks on the side (not a schwintek) and I noticed they had a sticky grease type lube on them. I washed them and put some dry lube on them. I also put grease on the bottom where the rollers are. No change.
Well, we bought a 5 year warranty with this RV and I checked it in with the dealer a month ago. They're telling me the interior gears and motor needs to be replaced.
$5,000.00 and they doubt the warranty company will cover it. They asked me if I greased the gear rails, I told them I used that dry lube, but only after the slide was acting up.
I'm going to get the RV tomorrow, because they need the space and it's going to be a little bit before this gets figured out.
My question is, can the motor and gear wheels be saved? Can I get in there with some cleaning agents and clean the gear teeth enough to save everything, or is it a worthless cause?
I have no idea how I'm going to prove to the warranty company that the damage was done before we bought it.
At this point, I'm hesitant to do anything, I thought lubing the gear teeth was the right thing to do (metal gears usually need lube), but apparently that's not the case and I don't want to make a bad situation worse.
I wish there was a warning sticker there that stated to not use grease on the gear rails. They have warnings for everything else.
Hi,
Your post title stated the words hydraulic, but the blue paraphrased wording the dearer told you, sounds different. The motor and gears seem to point to an electric rack and pinion system.
I tried to see if I could find something about your camper. This manual from Jayco on a 2018 Seismic ***Link Removed***
Has a large section on slides, and you flip to the system you have. Granted it is not uncommon to not have the manual line up with the camper in this kind of detail, but they do not mention any hydraulic slide systems that I saw. It may be they never updated the manual. Where did you get the idea your system was a hydraulic slide drive?
Yes, please post some pictures of the gears on the side and the slide drive system under the camper.
I have not had to deal with/repair the hydraulic slide yet, and on the ones I have seen, the hydraulic cylinder attaches to a gear rack where an elector motor drive (ball screw) would go. But I have worked on many electric drive rack and pinion systems and may be able to help on that part. Maybe we all learn something new here.
Hope this helps.
John
It is an electric slide, which I knew, everything on it is electric, brain fart on my part.
I spoke with LCI this morning, they told me the gear wheels can absolutely be saved by scrubbing them with lots of water and dawn and that there should be no reason why the motors need to be changed out.
Before I even had the chance to call the dealer, they called me and told me not to come get it. They said they had someone else look at it and they determined that they are going to pull it back in and clean the gears, they should not need to be changed out. Best news I heard all day. The cost is fair.
