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Old 12-09-2018, 10:56 AM   #3
Sudsy
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Default The Motor is not the problem

Look real good for something that has fallen under/beside the slide. If the room moves a couple inches the motor is good. It is hard to damage an electric motor by rotating it. The binding is in the gears or maybe the rollers. Go outside and look at the bottom of the slide. Do you see damage to the areas where the room slides on the rollers? Look inside the room with it retracted as much as you can.Do you see the rollers at the top on each side? ARE YOU LEVEL? If not level the coach and try again. Maybe even try making the side that the room is on higher than the other. My bedroom slide is the electric one in my coach and I could prop up the bed and look at the motor while trying to retract it (it was stuck too). My floor had become weak and I had to temporarily put a piece of sheet metal under the mount and reattach the mount to the floor spreading out the load and reinforcing the area. I am now replacing the entire bedroom floor.



Also there is a shear pin on the pinion gear that is on the motor. See if you can see the motor turning and the gear sitting still. If so it would make a racket and not move. I would even stick a nail in there and bend it over just t get the room in. Then replace the shear pin when you can.



Hopefully some of this will help. I was lucky and the room got stuck while it was parked in my driveway.


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