How to Complete an RV Slide-Out Cable Replacement
Dave SolbergDescription
Due to a high amount of friction from being extended and retracted frequently, the cables on your RV’s Lippert Accu-Slide are prone to bending and fraying. A bent or frayed can cause your slide room to become jammed or malfunction, which is a headache you’d want to avoid before hitting the road for a big trip!
So in this lesson, RV expert Dave Solberg walks you through a quick Accu-Slide inspection to teach you how to complete an RV slide-out cable replacement. You’ll learn what to look for when assessing the cables on your slide room, and discover a couple pointers for troubleshooting a frayed or bent cable.
Since the Accu-Slide cable slide room comes in and out and puts a lotta friction on those cables, through the pulleys, going through the wall itself, it's a good idea to periodically check and inspect those cables. If they're frayed or they're broken especially, you're gonna need to replace them. So here's the operation, the cable slide is hooked to this bracket right here, and you notice that we have this cable here, is a little bit, has a tendency to wanna ride out to this outside. It gets a little too close to this opening. So we wanna make sure that this is not getting frayed as it's coming in and out. In fact, with this, what I wanna do, there's a little stop right in here that keeps that from popping out, but I think I'm just gonna put a small little bolt with a nut on here to keep this from getting too close to this outside. Same way on the other ones here, we just wanna periodically check that. Now if I do have a frayed cable, or it's broken especially, then I'm gonna need to replace it. I'll take that stop out and put a new cable in.
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"How to do a cable REPLACEMENT" but It showed how to inspect and a tip to reduce wear. It didn't show how to replace the cable.
As Jim said, where the cable replacement part?
Is there something missing here? Where's the part about replacing an rv slide-out cable?
The title is "How to complete a slide room cable replacement". I must have missed something. Is there additional parts to this video. While I don't own a RV that uses a cable system,(I have a 2003 Newmar with a sort of rack and pinion drive system) I was curious about how it would be done on a cable system like this.