A horrid source of leaks!

Today I found what I hope of the leaks I have experienced on the fifth wheel. They were involved with the slide awning, and most difficult to figure out.

When it rained with the slide in, it seemed the inside of the sliding rear wall was wet. We have wall windows where the slide goes in and out, but the windows are inside with the slide and still it was wet. The wetness appeared vertically inside of the windows, up and down the wall.

Today, I put the slide out partially and began the search. Above the slide roof there is a flange that is part of the slide, and it has the seal on it that mates to the wall, but that did not figure in the problem. What would be outside when the slide was in? I was drawn to the mounting for the awning bar, and there I found it. Five screw holes with bare screws into the wall to hold the bar onto the slide wall. One was unscrewed about 1/16th of an inch and all were slightly too long.

I filled the holes up with caulking pressed in, cut off the tips of the screws, and then capped the outside with caulking over the screw heads.. Hope that is the end of that!