Keystone Cable Slides

scpdkp0424 · 05-06-2022, 11:54 AM

I have a 2015 Keystone Sprinter. I really like except that I have been having a lot of problems with the cables on the big slide. I would like to know if is even possible to convert the cable slide system on the big slide to a rack and pinion slide system? Is it even worth the trouble?

jsb5717 · 05-06-2022, 12:50 PM

Welcome aboard! I doubt a conversion is feasible. What kind of problems are you having?

**flybouy** · 05-06-2022, 01:08 PM

Most anything, given enough time and money is possible. I don't think it would be worth either. It's typically far easier to rectify a problem with proper repairs then it is to re-engineer and rebuild an existing system. What are the issues with the cable system?

**chuckster57** · 05-06-2022, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by flybouy

Most anything, given enough time and money is possible. I don't think it would be worth either. It's typically far easier to rectify a problem with proper repairs then it is to re-engineer and rebuild an existing system. What are the issues with the cable system?

Yup!!! Pay us enough and we will make it happen

scpdkp0424 · 05-06-2022, 02:59 PM

the cables are continually loosening up., no matter how many times I adjust them. Last year, on a trip, the chain motor totally blew out of the wall and the slide almost fell out of the RV. I fixed it with the help of some 20 ton jacks and my brother. I'm just tired of all of the incidents with the large slide.

xrated · 05-06-2022, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by scpdkp0424

the cables are continually loosening up., no matter how many times I adjust them. Last year, on a trip, the chain motor totally blew out of the wall and the slide almost fell out of the RV. I fixed it with the help of some 20 ton jacks and my brother. I'm just tired of all of the incidents with the large slide.

Let me ask you a question. It sounds like you've done more than just one or two adjustments to the cables, at least that is what I will assume from your comment. At any time while doing adjustments did you see anything on the adjustment rods that actually "lock" the adjustment in place when you've finished making the adjustment? When I owned my Fuzion Impact, the "locking" device was a piece of foam that was supposed to keep the adjustment nut from backing off. I literally laughed out loud, after I got done cursing the stupidity of that arrangement. Before I went any further, I stopped what I was doing, walked back into my workshop and grabbed sixteen 1/4-20 lock nuts and put them on the threaded rod adjuster. When the adjustment was done, and everything was working properly, I tightened down all the lock nuts and never had another issue with coming out of adjustment.....not even enough cable stretch to matter. Of course, 16 lock nuts was 8 per slide...times two slides.

scpdkp0424 · 05-08-2022, 10:58 AM

Thanks for the idea. I put the additional nuts on yesterday.

xrated · 05-08-2022, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by scpdkp0424

Thanks for the idea. I put the additional nuts on yesterday.

Good job, that makes one less place for the cables to cause an issue. Everyone seems to be concerned with "cable stretch", and I'm sure it does happen over time, but the adjustment coming loose because of no way to lock down the adjustment was 10 times more of an issue that cable stretch. Hope it works for you.

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