RV Slide-Out Stuck: Motor Runs But Room Stays Put
Dave SolbergRV 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 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 want to 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 we have these gear this middle piece is actually moving but the gears are not. Then that tells me that this set screw right here is probably come loose. And it's allowing that, 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, the chains actually moving.
Then it has to be one of our cables. It's either the in and out cable. So we're going to 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, we're gonna go down to each side of them we're going to 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. And it may, 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.
My Accu-slide is popping when I try to push the slide out, and it doesn't move the slide unless I physically push it myself while my wife pushes the button to extend the slide. I assumed it was the gearbox, but now I feel like it might be the set pin (?) coming loose. A second slide is now starting to do the same thing. If it's the set pin how do I get it back in correctly? How do I know if it's the gearbox instead? Thanks, Jim
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My electrical slide out will go out but does not return back.
I have a towel jammed into the slideout. I didn't see it when I extended it, but now the slide doesn't move and the towel is jammed in tight. What are my options?
we have a 2015 coachmen chaparral and we cannot get the kitchen slide to open. you dont hear anything when trying to make it go out but trying to go in you can hear the gears like its all the way in. cannot get it to budge
The actuator on my slide out is stripped. Is it possible to push the slide out in by hand temporarily?
I have the serpentine gear style system. How do you access the motors for this style of slide. It is a Voltage 39xx.