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Originally Posted by chapster
So after all the electrical checked out, and after getting through another knee surgery, we went back to work on the slide.
In our unit the drive for the slide is at the top of the slide, not in the undercarriage. To get to the motor / drive we had to remove the decorative trim at the top front of the slide out. We'll figure out a way to put it back to where its easy on / off. It was installed with wire brads. Interesting design decision...
It turn out that three of the five bolts holding the motor / drive unit to the wall stripped out. When the slide is moving in, the backplate and unit pull away from the backing at quite an angle. Once the slide was fully in, the incorrect angle / tension on the drive chains was apparently enough to keep the motor from activating. Using the manual gear turn, I was able to get the chains moving enough for the switch to activate. Now that the slide is fully out (putting the unit near to us, so we can work without reaching w-a-a-a-y back), we're going to work on remounting the plate and see if that fixes the issue.
Thanks again for the responses that guided us through troubleshooting the electrical components. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. This is not covered by warranty, so going to try to fix this ourselves.
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If it were mine I'd get a piece of thin steel plate long enough to span a couple studs, if you can locate them & a bit wider than the motor mount then attach the motor to that, giving something more solid to mount to than the thin planeling.
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