Carpet wear from slide out room

MeloyeloCJ7 wrote:
TT is 2013 Forest River Surveyor Select SV301. I’ve been noticing more wear to the carpet on the TT floor at each end of the slide from it going in and out. Looking at the slide from outside there are adjustment points for moving it left /right. There are also adjustments to move it up / down but that only appears to be at the wall side of the slide. I’m assuming that would be for adjusting tightness of the seals. There doesn’t seem to be any sort of adjustment to raising the slide above where it rides at the floor level. Am I missing something or is there a wear point that is allowing the slide to slowly drop lower over the years of use? Thanks for any insight.

Hi,

I have been through several slide issues over the years on multiple campers. I may be able to help but need more info on what you have to help better. You may have a simple issue or not pending how yours is made.

I tried find a floor plan/spec on your camper, and it seems the FR site does not go back in time to older models. I found this on the web and have no idea if this is your camper. Please confirm.

Pics of the door side
https://www.smartrvguide.com/L50892133

A possible floor plan, but this may be totally wrong. Please confirm


A few questions trying to understand your camper.

1. Is the slide an "above floor" or a "flush floor" design?
With the above floor design, the slide travels straight in and out. When the slide is out, the slide floor is above the main camper floor. You have a small step up, 1" to 2" up onto the slide from the main camper floor when the slide is out.

The flush floor setup, has a cam action that lifts up the slide room up off the main camper floor as the slide room comes in. The slide room actually goes up hill and down hill on the way in and out. When the slide room is out, the slide floor/room drops down and the slide floor is close to flush with the main camper floor, no step up. When the slide is in, you can see the inside of the slide floor is off the main camper floor in the middle of the camper.

2. Do you know the type/brand of slide mechanism that drives and supports the slide under the camper? It is a rack and pinion drive?

Depending on how you camper is built with which slide drive system, they do have adjustments to raise the slide floor off the main camper floor. But one adjustment affects the other on many slides, so you need to understand how the whole slide works before adjusting.

3. Approx. how many miles is on the camper?

4. What is the gross weight and the GVWR of the camper?

5. What is the main trailer frame height? The vertical dimension from bottom of steel to the top of steel.

If the floor plan I linked is close to your camper, a 36 ft long, rear kitchen, with a super slide (dinette and or large couch in the slide), slide front is close to or over the rear axle, rear of slide is very far back on the camper, there are frame flex issues that can, in some cases affect the slide carpet touching.

Tell us some about how your camper is made, add some pics of the slide side of the camper, and the slide drive under the camper.

Hope this helps

John

EDIT: fixed my senior moment goof on item 1 with above floor and flush floor.