Slideout Issue

[lawnspecialties]

Coming home from our last trip, the living room had difficulty coming in. Both the bedroom slide and living room slide are on the same switch. The bedroom comes in first and then the living room. My guess is because the bedroom is so much lighter.

Anyway, when the bedroom slide came in, the living room didn't. The motor was still pulling but the slide didn't move. I ran it back out some, then ran it back in and it grabbed and came on in. But now that I'm home, the slide seems a little different. It doesn't quite sound the same and it may be coming in slightly crooked. But that's just eye-balling it. When its fully out or fully in, it looks normal.

Any ideas where to start first? Maybe one side got slightly off track compared to the other? I'm just guessing so far.

[lawnspecialties]

I have the hydraulic slideouts. Today I did some measuring and some "eyeballing". I can tell the slide is not coming in or going out evenly. The obvious guess is one side jumped a couple of teeth or so.

So what next? I have that danged coroplast underneath so that's got to be moved out of the way before I can access the motor or whatever it is that's the problem. Any suggestions of what to expect before I get in there?

[Community Alumni]

suprz wrote:
Is the slide out mechanism made by Lippert / schwintek? You can tell. If it has two rails on either side of the slideout it is a lippert. I have heard of those mechanisms geting out of synch.

Schwintek have separate switches for each slide.

[suprz]

Is the slide out mechanism made by Lippert / schwintek? You can tell. If it has two rails on either side of the slideout it is a lippert. I have heard of those mechanisms geting out of synch. They use two motors, one on each side of each individual slideout and they have to move in perfect synch, or the slideout will jam or bind up in the opening. There is a procedure that i heard on how to get the motors back in synch, but i dont remember where i read it. You can probably google it. If it isnt a lippert and it is hybraulic, check for leaks in the hydraulic lines leading from the pump to the hydraulic rams, only other kind of system i know of is a sort of rack and pinion system. My slideout system is made by power gear (lippert also owns that brand now) and it is a single motor connected to a shaft that runs 2 gears on two tracks under the slideout. But i havent heard of those going out of whack because its only one motor. UNLESS for some reason a gear jumped a tooth on one of the tracks. Anyways good luck