Thread: Bad Wires
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Old 08-31-2006, 09:50 PM   #1
Timothy
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Default Bad Wires

I've had to repair the wires to my slideout 3 times now and thought I had it all taken care of until my last trip the beginning of August. Everything went fine until the day we were leaving, I hooked up and got a short message on my prodigy brake control. Looked around to see if anything was obvious and no luck. I had just replace my brake shoes a couple of weeks before so I though maybe one of the brake wires got pinched. I limped home with intermittant brakes because I didn't have the tools needed with to jack up the trailer and pull wheels.

I unhooked all the brakes at the wheels from the back side and found the feed wire was shorted. Unhooked the wire from the umbilical cord and sure enough still shorted between the brakes and the junction box under the pin box. Decided I would have to remove the metal panels to get a better look, what a wonderful design!!! I had to remove the gas pipe that ran under the panels, unhook cables that fed through them and cut through caulking around the waste pipes, it took me 3 hours to remove one panel, the second one only took about 30 minutes and the panel that was around the dump valves I just about had to destroy to get it off.

Before I removed the panels I had contacted GS via the Ask Mr Wothmore section on thier web site, received no response for 2 days so I sent an email to towtech asking for assistance in locationg the wiring problem, 2 days no response gave up and started removing panels as stated above. Anyway this is what I found.

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0VADdA...87549622282704

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0WAARA...87549593008525



The horizontal square tube rotates when the slide room is moved in or out, and of course Gulf Stream ran the wire right next to it. The wires were pulled under the tube and pinched in between the tube and the freshwater tank mounting bracket. I contacted Gulf Stream for help as I thought that this may be a fire hazard, the guy on the phone told me to take it to my dealer. I told him my dealer was 250 miles away and I had no trailer brakes, his response was to run a temporary wire to the brakes. I give up on GS and went back to work. I was able to repair the wires and routed them as far away from the moving shaft as I could, then wire tied to the frame and covered with foam pipe insulation.
I hope this works, I still have to do the slide wiring tomorrow and try and wrestle the under belly panels back on and reattach the gas line etc.

Tim
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