Slide won't come in!
I noticed recently that our slide seemed to sag towards one side. So was taking a closer look today to see what the issue is. It looks like a number of screws have broken off. I tried to put the slide...
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I figured I'd give ya'll an update in case any one else has the same trouble. First we jacked up the side with an off road jack my grandfather had but the middle was still sagging below the slide plate. So I used my floor jack and a 2x8 vertical and a 2x8 horizontal to spread the load. It picked it up like it was nothing. Then we screwed the slide plate back down and that was enough to keep it from sagging again. I also reattached the other small plastic slide with just a few screws into the slide below it.
It seems like the slide may have come out too far and then all that weight caused the screws holding the slide plate down to break. Therefore I really wanted to adjust it in some, especially the one side. However it was fully adjusted in on that side so I made a different adjustment that looks like it adjusts the whole slide. I only moved it in maybe a quarter of an inch and hopefully that will be enough so it doesn't happen again. It didn't seem to affect the seal either thankfully.
All in all it was a pretty easy fix, once I had a decent understanding of how it all worked and now I have everything to fix it again if it happens again in the future. So now I can check off fixing the slide, only a few hundred more things to go and I'll be a pro myself ;)
Thanks again,
Tim Czarkowski
TotalTravelers.com
This is where I made the adjustment.
It seems like the slide may have come out too far and then all that weight caused the screws holding the slide plate down to break. Therefore I really wanted to adjust it in some, especially the one side. However it was fully adjusted in on that side so I made a different adjustment that looks like it adjusts the whole slide. I only moved it in maybe a quarter of an inch and hopefully that will be enough so it doesn't happen again. It didn't seem to affect the seal either thankfully.
All in all it was a pretty easy fix, once I had a decent understanding of how it all worked and now I have everything to fix it again if it happens again in the future. So now I can check off fixing the slide, only a few hundred more things to go and I'll be a pro myself ;)
Thanks again,
Tim Czarkowski
TotalTravelers.com
This is where I made the adjustment.
