BAL Accuslide - Adjustment Advice
My large 12' dinette slide has a couple of possibly related issues:
1. The room tilts a little over an inch from top to bottom when extended.
2. The standoff bracket on the top right side (as you face the slide) looks to me as if it was installed in not quite the right location. The bracket is fully positioned at it's bottom 'stop', yet when the room extends, the cable is being pulled upward. Looks like if I had had a little more room to move the cable in it's adjustment slot, I could make it run true.
I had this cable fray and had to replace last year. Pretty certain this was due to the constant pressure being applied by the badly positioned bracket as the slide extends and retracts. I had an RV shop do the cable replacement and attempt to adjust the room tilt at the same time. He managed to take a little tilt out of the room but claims he could do no more without fully removing the slide and starting from scratch. He also advised to expect the cable to go again in the future.
When the slide extends, I refrain from moving it out the last couple of inches as the top trim makes contact first. If I continue to extend, the trim already in contact with the inside wall makes a pretty unpleasant noise, so I don't want to push my luck and continue. If I do, I can take a bit more of the tilt shown in the pic out, as the upper portion of the slide is acting like a brace, causing the bottom of the slide to lift and straighten out a bit more.
So....
Is the top to bottom tilt a cable adjustment issue?
Is there a way/need to de-tach and move the standoff bracket? If so, any special process?
Note: in the pic showing the cable/bracket, the cable appears straight. It's during the extension that I see the upward pull on the cable. When the room reaches near full extension it seems to straighten out and the cable relaxes.
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2022 Rockwood Signature 8324SB
2019 F350, SRW, 6.2L, 4.30 gears
Sold: 2020 Keystone Cougar '1/2 ton' TT, 29RLKWE
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