Hydraulic Lines

[psford]

I have a couple hydraulic lines that are leaking . Replaced one a couple years ago on my fifth wheel that was leaking. At this point I am going to replace them all, its hard to get to them, and don't want to go thru it again if I can help it.

The leaks are in the hose itself, not in any of the fittings. They are not very heavy duty hose, nothing like the one I had made up.

I am going to pull all the lines, take to a hydraulic hose shop that makes hoses to any length needed.

My question is , can I just put them back on , top off the reservoir , and run the slide outs in ,and out to purge the air in the lines. Its a lippert system. I didn't seem to have any problems when I replaced just the one line ,or do I have to do something to get the air out ?

[psford]

Home Skillet wrote:
You're welcome.
Now is a good time to familiarize yourself on how to manually retract your slides.

Got the new hoses on order, should see them in about a week, sent them a fitting off one of the old hoses to match. Without a gauge or taking it to someone locally, I can't measure the flare its either 37 or 45 degrees. Most likely 37 . Want to be sure ,would hate to get 61 feet of hydraulic hoses ,and have the wrong fittings on them.

Yes I will have to familiarize myself on how to manually retract the slides, never know when you might have to . Thanks

[Home_Skillet]

You're welcome.
Now is a good time to familiarize yourself on how to manually retract your slides.

[psford]

Home Skillet wrote:
Just cycle the slides a few times. You'll be good to go.

Thanks ,thats what I thought I could do . Not very good hoses on this fifth wheel of mine, hopefully this will fix things up.

[Home_Skillet]

Just cycle the slides a few times. You'll be good to go.