RV Slide-Out Stuck: Motor Runs But Room Stays Put
RV Lifestyle & Repair EditorsDescription
RV appliances and upgrades malfunction all the time, but if you know the proper course of action when they do, you can avoid unwanted headaches while you’re out on the road. This is certainly true of a faulty RV slide out. Stuck gears, loose cables and improper connections can cause a slide-out to extend and retract slowly or not at all.
The solution to this problem is simple. All you have to do is inspect each of the unit’s components and determine what’s going wrong. To help you do so, RV expert Dave Solberg walks you through a quick demonstration for assessing and fixing a slide-out that doesn’t want to budge. With Dave’s guidance, your upgraded RV slide room will be operational in no time!
If you have the Accu-Slide cable slide room, and it's not working and you verified that the motor's running, but nothing's happening, there's some troubleshooting that you can do. The first thing you wanna do is get up and look. When you hit the switch at the actual gear, we come up in the top here. And this is the motor, this is what's going to turn this assembly here. Now if we hit the switch and have this middle piece is actually moving, but the gears are not, then that tells me that this set screw, right here has probably come loose and it's allowing that shaft to go but it's not turning the gears.
Now if the gears are running inside here and the room's not moving, we look at our cables here, we see the chains actually moving, then it has to be one of our cables. It's either the in and out cable, so we're gonna look at the pulleys off to the side, somewhere we've got a cable that's broken or has come out of the gear. So we're gonna go down to each side of them but we're gonna look at the outside of it. And if there's a cable off of that, it'll be coming up and we'll see the end of it. So, then basically what we need to do is just follow those cables, find out where we have the loose connection or that stretched a little bit, it may run for a little while with nothing happening and then the room starts to come in.
That means we've got a lot of slack. So, following the cables, making sure those gears are taken care of, hooking it back up and your slide room should run.
I have a 2010 Fuzion Fifth Wheel toy hauler, two slides. They are hydraulic, one button. The button does not move the slides in or out. I can get them to move in or out by temporary means, jumping from positive post on the motor to the "in" or "out" post. Motor works fine. The rest of the electrical panel is powered up. The problem is that the switch in the control panel won't move the slides at all. Any idea what could be wrong? I am graying my black hair with frustration over this problem. I would greatly appreciate any ideas you may have. Thank you.