slide won't retract

You should be able to crawl underneath remove a panel and use the supplied crank to manually retract the slide.

Not familiar with Jayvo slides, but it sounds like you sheared a pin. If so you need to turn the motor till the motor shaft and shaft are aligned then drive out Lord pin and replace. The next thing would be to look for a reason for it to break.

Replace the broken sheer bolt maybe.

Motor runs the shaft runs but must have a connection between the gear box and the slide,

It is almost always the gears or pins that break on slideouts. The motor seldom quits. You might be able to replace the broken part fairly easy, you might not.

One definite way of retracting is : --- : have someone inside pushing the button to retract (in case a tooth catches somewhere), and get a few guys outside and push push push. Then strap it shut with a ratchet strap and call the dealer for an appointment

Once you get the side in, get the dealer to check out the whole thing.

I had this happen once to a trailer where the slide was misaligned and the other time to my motor home where the floor of the slide out had warped due to water damage. In both cases, the shear pin failed repeatedly.

Been wondering what makes for repeated shear pin breakage.

In our case, don't see any unusual binding in how the slide works. But the motor is very powerful and obviously doing a lot of work.

First thought we were doing too much stop-start, as we never had a slide before and were very cautious opening and closing it.

But now I think it's when the slide's welded-on stops hit the frame. The motor is so dam powerful, last time it not only popped the shear bolt (3rd one, grade 5), it busted off the welded-on stop (just a spot weld).

Now I'm extra careful. Just allowing the rubber gaskets around the slide opening to squeeze slightly before releasing the button. That leaves the remaining stop about 1/2" from the frame. The busted-off stop I'll just leave off and be careful;).

I had a similar issue when the slide failed to stop when extending outward and busted a little of the trim before my wife could release the button...don't know how far out it would have gone. But, after checking with Northwood, we decided the culprit was something called a "resettable fuse" that was not sensing the added voltage draw at the end of the slide extension and allowing the slide to continue to be pushed out.

I located this little fuse in a box beneath the bed, found another replacement, and now all works well. But each time the slide is either sent out or withdrawn I am VERY alert to watching for the "end of travel" positions and making certain it stops at the proper position.

This small "resettable fuse/breaker" can, and will, cause a fellow a lot of anxiety if it fails. It is located at different locations depending on the unit.

mailman01 wrote:
I had a similar issue when the slide failed to stop when extending outward and busted a little of the trim before my wife could release the button...don't know how far out it would have gone. But, after checking with Northwood, we decided the culprit was something called a "resettable fuse" that was not sensing the added voltage draw at the end of the slide extension and allowing the slide to continue to be pushed out.

I located this little fuse in a box beneath the bed, found another replacement, and now all works well. But each time the slide is either sent out or withdrawn I am VERY alert to watching for the "end of travel" positions and making certain it stops at the proper position.

This small "resettable fuse/breaker" can, and will, cause a fellow a lot of anxiety if it fails. It is located at different locations depending on the unit.

Arrrrrgh.

A whole bunch of people have convinced me that these "auto reset circuit breakers" are *not* used to control the slide motor, or should not be anyway.

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/28054680.cfm

But Northwood and Outdoors RV are closely related so ....

Guess I'll have to crawl under the trailer with my clamp-on ammeter and double check whether the motor stalls when it hits a stop, or the auto-reset circuit breaker cuts power to the motor.

Northwood did tell me that this little device, the resettable breaker/fuse, did stop the slide on the out and inward movements. If the information presented in some of the earlier posts here saying that this fuse should not be the main "stopper" of the slide movement, then where is the breaker/switch that is supposed to do this? Northwood gave me no indication of a switch being located at any other place.

I now always try and stop the slide just prior to its' maximum movement either in or out just to prevent the fuse from having to stop it. Sounds like there should be a better "mousetrap" for this operation.