Professional repairs
Just for fun. I had my slide seal repaired. A few times. Sometimes you just need it done correctly and professionally. Can you guess which repair was done by me and which repair was done by a profes...
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dougrainer wrote:
It sure looked like the Metal finger gasket. As to 10 hours, NO OEM has any gasket that would require 10 hours to do the job. In your case, You would remove the inside upper wood Fascia and back support(about 1.0 hour total r&i) and that would give you access to clean off the old gasket and install the new gasket. IF you have a Slide cover, you remove it(1.0 total to remove and reinstall), That gives you outside access to facilitate removing and installing a new seal. probably 4 hours total but the OEM probably pays no more than 3 hours if even that. Most will not go over 2.0 for just a top wipe/gasket seal. And, YES, I have probably replaced at least 200 slide seals in the past 20 years on all various makes and models. Doug
But you're wrong. I suggest you look at the pictures full size. I only have an inch and half to 2 inches to work my hand through and tools through.
Removing the inside upper fascia reveals nothing more then an aluminum one piece frame. So no there is no access in the method you describe. The wood facia is actually glued to the metal frame.
You second method would require removing the slide topper and then the slide wipe seals. About 17 feet long. But THEN the place you have to scrape off the residue of glue is ABOVE the opening, above the wipe seal. With the slide open you can't see the seal. Again you're wrong. The seal actually touches the inner frame above the seals. You can see the metal frame to the right of the photo it touches when the slide is open. I think you don't realize what this seal does or how it's located.
You replaced 200 seals, but you can't see that there is no fingers. That line on the aluminum is that just a line which is just part of the manufacturing process. I think it was there just to hinder my scraping of the gasket.
I've built cars from only frames So I think I might know something. And sometimes the job just sucks.
Of course no one is going to devote that much time to it and that's why they did it incorrectly 5 times.
