Lippert slide adjustment

[joshuajim]

I have an LCI electrical slide on my 2011 Wildwood. It has always worked well, but a couple of days ago when I went to extend it it ripped a portion of the vinyl floor out. It seems that when the slide comes in the inside edge drops down until the wood structure on the bottom of the slide contacts the flooring.

I went to the LCI site where they have explicit instructions on adjusting the slide. No matter how I just it it continues to contact the flooring when retracted,

I checked the extension structure and all welds are intact and no deformation of the assembly was noted.

Any ideas on how to rectify this issue.

As a side note, I’m both an ASE mechanic (19 years) and a licensed General Contractor (39 years) so this work is well within my wheelhouse.

[dougrainer]

joshuajim wrote:

dougrainer wrote:
From your description previously, you made it sound like the carpet was on the MAIN floor of the RV. Doug

I've reread my initial description and nowhere did I indicate that there was carpet on the main floor. Did i miss something?

No, your description was accurate. It just seemed like you were talking about carpet under the slide room. Doug

[BFL13]

With our 5er, the slide room carpet had a flap out past the slide room floor that was to hide the gap with the white plastic round down when the slide was out. The flap was not tucked in under. It went out a little onto the main floor with the slide out all the way.

The whole slide floor underneath went in and out without touching the main floor it seemed--but somehow it scratched it in a couple of spots. The slide had no rollers under there. Once out the slide floor dropped down to be level with the main floor. Coming in it had to first climb up the round down and then be higher than the main floor

With a strip of carpet at the edge of the main floor a few inches wide (the Komfort guy said make it at least 4 inches) the slide room carpet flap was now on top of that main floor carpet strip instead of vinyl. That was said to be enough to stop the scratching of the vinyl part.

Many floor plans I have seen keep a strip of carpet along there, but I think that is more for comfort where your feet go when sitting on the couch in the slide room. Your feet seem to go right on the edge where the flap is and the strip of carpet on the main floor under the flap evens it all up so your feet are not on a sort of bump. I can't say if that strip of carpet also acts to prevent scratching the rest of the bare floor with no carpeting when the slide comes in and out.

My cure without having the strip of carpet along the main floor edge was to use a mat. The mat also helped for the feet on the gap issue when sitting on the couch, when the mat was tucked in under the flap.

I wanted to put in nice wooden flooring, but it would have been too high and get ruined by the slide scratching it. the OEM floor plan had carpeting on the main floor except over by the door and in the kitchen, but the slide didn't go where the tile was. My tile job got scratched, but it wasn't too bad and when shiny waxed, you could hardly see the scratches.

[joebedford]

Still don't know what kind of slide you have. Is the rack and pinion underneath or on the walls?

[joshuajim]

dougrainer wrote:
From your description previously, you made it sound like the carpet was on the MAIN floor of the RV. Doug

I've reread my initial description and nowhere did I indicate that there was carpet on the main floor. Did i miss something?

[dougrainer]

joshuajim wrote:

dougrainer wrote:
Some Slide rooms run along the carpet. Those types are NOT designed to have tile/Lino under the slide. Nobody uses a small edge of carpet to support a slide room to keep from damaging the tile/lino. While you can use Carpet to stop that type problem, that is not a design. You state a LCI slide room. That does NOT tell us what model LCI slide room mechanism you have. They have quite a few with different parameters. Doug

The manual I received does not specify a model number only that it is a Lippert electric slide out system (rack & pinion).

I beg to differ about the flooring. My unit came from the factory with vinyl floor that extends under the slide floor. The slide floor extends about 4” in front of the assembly with carpet wrapped over the front and tucked under the slide floor. The carpet is DEFINITELY used to support the slide. I guess I could have the only one made that way.

You have the carpet on the top of the slide room floor wrapped around and on the bottom. THAT is normal for your type lino. From your description previously, you made it sound like the carpet was on the MAIN floor of the RV. Your pic shows the normal way they did the carpet. The carpet does not really support the slide, the Rack/Pinion does. The carpet is what keeps the bottom of the slide floor from damaging the Lino. If GLIDES across the Lino. Doug

[joshuajim]

dougrainer wrote:
Some Slide rooms run along the carpet. Those types are NOT designed to have tile/Lino under the slide. Nobody uses a small edge of carpet to support a slide room to keep from damaging the tile/lino. While you can use Carpet to stop that type problem, that is not a design. You state a LCI slide room. That does NOT tell us what model LCI slide room mechanism you have. They have quite a few with different parameters. Doug

The manual I received does not specify a model number only that it is a Lippert electric slide out system (rack & pinion).

I beg to differ about the flooring. My unit came from the factory with vinyl floor that extends under the slide floor. The slide floor extends about 4” in front of the assembly with carpet wrapped over the front and tucked under the slide floor. The carpet is DEFINITELY used to support the slide. I guess I could have the only one made that way.

[dougrainer]

Some Slide rooms run along the carpet. Those types are NOT designed to have tile/Lino under the slide. Nobody uses a small edge of carpet to support a slide room to keep from damaging the tile/lino. While you can use Carpet to stop that type problem, that is not a design. You state a LCI slide room. That does NOT tell us what model LCI slide room mechanism you have. They have quite a few with different parameters. Doug

[joshuajim]

BFL is right. There is capet along the front of the slide which was tucked under the wood and metal. After 8 years it either came loose underneath or just wore out and allowed the slide to tear up the vinyl. Easy fix.

[newman_fulltime]

Your teflon rub blocks are wore out that are on the floor under the front edge of the slide.

[BFL13]

With the 5er, I got rid of the carpet the dogs ruined and went for a tiled floor. It got scraped. I was told by the 5er company to leave a few inches of carpet along the edge of the main floor under where the slide room carpet flap goes. That is supposed to stop the scraping on the rest of the floor.

I then used to tuck a mat under there since all the carpet was now gone. Removed the mat once slide was out, put it back before bringing slide in. Seemed to work. Didn't make any sense to me why that would work though.