Slide floor repair, 07 cougar 276RLS

[Webster'sCougar]

In moving the couch back onto the slide after carpet cleaners were done, I noticed that the slide floor has dropped at the aft wall. Screw tips are evident, coming down from the wall. I need to fasten the floor back up, without interfering with clearance when retracting the slide.

Any 'been there, done that' folks with advice on what works? (Screws with washers from below, up into the wall panel, location of something solid in a wall, sensitivity of the slide mechanism to new screws into the wall.......)

[chuckster57]

Welcome to the forum

If you can remove one of the failed screws you can get some new ones the same size and then put those in in between the failed ones.

[Webster'sCougar]

Screws come down from the interior of the wall. Can't extract (I think) without exposing heads by removing inner wall and insulation and god knows what else..

[Webster'sCougar]

I know nothing about the wall construction. Do they have something solid to screw to all along the bottom edge (plates), or just here and there like wall studs?

[chuckster57]

The factory doesn’t screw a wall to the floor and then install the insulation and interior wall, if it’s a vacuum bonded wall. There is probably a metal channel at the bottom of the wall, and maybe screws coming UP from the bottom, but you’d have to remove the slide bar that the mechanism is attached to. Take a real close look at the exposed threads and the “pitch” will tell you which direction they were installed.

[Webster'sCougar]

In thinking further about it, I believe that the symptoms match a rotted out floor, from water wicking into the plywood floor end after descending the exterior of the slide end wall. Flashing addition needed at bottom of exterior slide end walls!

There is a great video on floor repair, found by searching 276rls slide floor repair.

[Webster'sCougar]

Just wanted to say thanks, Chuckster57!

You're right about the screws, too. Turns out that the 'screw points' I was seeing and feeling, were the necked down screw shafts where the screw heads had rusted off!!

Sometimes, what one sees in poor light ain't what one is looking at!

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