rbw slideout parts ( orphan ) gears again
Last year we had a off side slide crown gear strip because it was not fully engaging the rack, a new gear only available from Liesure Coachworks who bought out the defunct RBW stock was $150. My pre...
Forum Discussion
Doorside dinette 12' slide crown gear stripped due to 1/3 engagement of gear to rack.
New$$$$ gear and rearrangment of it allowes full engagement. Its not fun or easy to shift the gear, spacers bushings.
Off door side kitchen slide out stripped motor gear due to excessive clearance between it and the ring gear, made worse by loose tolerance in the bronze bushing into aluminum housing. Thats where epoxy filled filled and solidified the bushing.
The gear, a 12 tooth 1.125" OD had clearance to go larger by .0025 without binding, so I reengineered the gear to 1.30, a 25 thous. radius increase.
I consider myself a really handy guy, I have a welding shop. some machine tools. I debated these fixes for months to see how the crown gear could be aligned to full engagement, consulted rbw websites, and mobile repairmen. Their fix would land men on Mars. Pull off slides, new racks gears drives WTF!
It came down to a DIY project with a few wrenches for door side, glue an a little welding on sprocket off side.
Slides work well now.
New$$$$ gear and rearrangment of it allowes full engagement. Its not fun or easy to shift the gear, spacers bushings.
Off door side kitchen slide out stripped motor gear due to excessive clearance between it and the ring gear, made worse by loose tolerance in the bronze bushing into aluminum housing. Thats where epoxy filled filled and solidified the bushing.
The gear, a 12 tooth 1.125" OD had clearance to go larger by .0025 without binding, so I reengineered the gear to 1.30, a 25 thous. radius increase.
I consider myself a really handy guy, I have a welding shop. some machine tools. I debated these fixes for months to see how the crown gear could be aligned to full engagement, consulted rbw websites, and mobile repairmen. Their fix would land men on Mars. Pull off slides, new racks gears drives WTF!
It came down to a DIY project with a few wrenches for door side, glue an a little welding on sprocket off side.
Slides work well now.
