Are slideout lock bars important?
I have a 2005 Holiday Rambler Ambassador. Each of the front slideouts has an adjustable bar to be placed between the wall and one corner of the slideout trim so the slide won't move to the out positi...
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dougrainer wrote:bsinmich wrote:
My MH has a little women that reminds me to check slide locks and chairs for clearance with a 5 sec. delay. I would like to meet her some time.
Yes, but the problem is--like a nagging woman, Newmar owners tune her out and do not release the manual locks and then have bent lock arms and a slide out of alignment. Doug
the living room slide on my Chieftain had a pair of hooks that locked into fittings on the floor. when I last put that slideout out before trading I noticed that the rear one wasn't fastened, then I noticed that the bracket was bent all to heck, fortunately the floor fitting didn't rip out, and I was able to put the bracket in a vise and pound it back to serviceable condition. Never asked who had been playing around with the slide however. the crazy thing was that it looked like it had been forced backwards, rather than how it should have been bent if it had been extended when hooked?
bumpy
