Slide Topper on a Rear Slide

[jessjosh61]

Has anyone here ever installed a slide topper on a rear slide? How did it fit and work? We have a KZ Spree 289KS with a rear bed slide. We are trying to reduce or eliminate the water getting in when we close up in the rain.

[jessjosh61]

Chris Bryant wrote:
Pay attention to the slack in the cables- they need to be fairly well adjusted, and if they get frayed, replacement before they break is much easier than after.
You can find the service manual and adjustment procedures at http://www.norcoind.com/bal/products/oem/accuslide/index.shtml.
Worth printing out and keeping.

Chris, thank you for this link.

[Poodle_Power]

We bought an Itasca Navion 24g earlier this year. It is a little over 25 feet long. It has a rear slide out bed. Part of the mattress folds back over the part of the bed that doesn't move. It is about 30 feet with the slide out. It has a cover over it. We have only used it twice. There was some wind each time, so my husband tossed some plastic rope over it and tied it down. It worked well.

[Chris_Bryant]

OLYLEN wrote:
Don't know why a topper could not be made for it. A topper is just an awning without arms and rolled out with the slide rather than the arms. Only thing I would think about is the wind flap.

LEN

They could, but the whole thing would have to be heavier, and the tube would need to be main awning diameter, just for the spring.

[OLYLEN]

Don't know why a topper could not be made for it. A topper is just an awning without arms and rolled out with the slide rather than the arms. Only thing I would think about is the wind flap.

LEN

[Chris_Bryant]

Pay attention to the slack in the cables- they need to be fairly well adjusted, and if they get frayed, replacement before they break is much easier than after.
You can find the service manual and adjustment procedures at http://www.norcoind.com/bal/products/oem/accuslide/index.shtml.
Worth printing out and keeping.

[jessjosh61]

Chris Bryant wrote:
40" is the normal max projection. I believe most rear slides are deeper.

Thanks. I hadn't thought of that. Our rear slide is probably 60" long. It does function differently as well. Our side slide is gear actuated, but the rear one is cable actuated. I don't think that matters, but the depth surely does. Thanks again...

[bikendan]

the_vfox wrote:
I have never seen one on a rear bed slide, they are pretty long.

never seen a topper for any rear bed slide.

[Chris_Bryant]

40" is the normal max projection. I believe most rear slides are deeper.

[the_vfox]

I have never seen one on a rear bed slide, they are pretty long.

[fj12ryder]

Does a rear slide work differently than a normal slide? Or is it just a slide that's at the rear?

If it's a normal slide, there's no reason I can think of why a slide topper won't work.

[GMandJM]

We have toppers on all four of our slides. They keep leaves and stuff off the top of the slide.

The tops of the slides stay fairly dry, but the sides of the slides still are wet when we close up in the rain. We just wipe down the sides when we bring them in.

EDIT: I just looked at your floor plan....how far does your bed slide out extend? Dometic slide toppers go up to 42". Other brands may be different.

[bluie5]

I wondered the same thing when we had our Jayco Jayfeather with the rear slide. We sold it before I did any real research on it though.