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04-25-2014, 02:43 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
Posts: 4
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Bedroom slide out leaking
I have had problems with leaking despite all my efforts!!
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04-25-2014, 03:29 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fraser Valley BC Canada
Posts: 7,015
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vancouverjad -
You'll have to be quite a bit more specific than this before we can give you much help with your leaking problem. Give us some more information ---- where on the slide is it leaking? Is this a recent problem or has it been going on for some time? What efforts have you undertaken? etc ????
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2008 Cougar 5th Wheel 27RKS
2005 2500 GMC Duramax
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06-05-2014, 02:36 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Columbia,Il
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I have the same problem. Been leaking since I bought it no matter what I seal up. It gets the carpet wet on the left side under and alongside the bed. I put sealer on the outside where the lower side panel overlaps the sidewall where it has the best chance of infiltration. I'll keep at it and hopeful that I find it before the bedroom floor rots away. Don't think it's coming in from the roof although I worked on that too.
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06-06-2014, 09:57 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Box Elder
Posts: 2,910
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If there is a window in the slide, be sure to check the seal between the flange and the wall surface. We were almost crazy last winter trying to find the leak in our large slide, sealed a few spots on the roof, had a mobile tech come out and look it over and he put more caulking on the roof of the slide. Finally, I got to looking even closer at the window, and discovered there was an almost microscopic gap between the sealant and the wall. I took a dull knife and cut back the sealant that was protruding from the flange, cleaned all around with solvent and applied silicone caulk. That stopped the leak. The water was coming into the space between the inner and outer wall and seeping out to the carpet at the bottom of the wall. There was never any water running down the inside wall.
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2012 3402 Montana
2012 Chevy 2500HD D/A CC
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06-09-2014, 05:37 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Federal Way, WA
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We own a 2013 Cougar 331MKS. We had a similar problem with a leak above the dining table. After taking it back to the dealer, they discovered that the seal on the outside of that slide had not been installed. We love our 5th wheel, but I must say that quality control is not given high priority by Keystone.
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06-11-2014, 11:00 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vermont
Posts: 367
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Ours leaked badly once. Turned out the speaker cover had popped off to the top of the slider so when we opened it, it held the rubber seal open and let the rain run in. The bed caught almost all of it. Now I check speaker covers to be sure I see all of them.
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2015 Ford F-350 XLT Ruby Red 6.7L Powerstroke, 4x4, Short Bed, Andersen Ultimate Hitch
Cougar High Country 299RKS, Mor/Ryde pin box, 200w solar
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06-11-2014, 06:25 PM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Illinois
Posts: 68
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Keep after it as if it leaks while parked and the slide is out it has to be water running down from the roof or off the slide itself. If it is wet while driving it could be from virtually anywhere as the wind driven rain will and can come in from anywhere.
TomG
Maybe I can stop by this weekend and we can look at it.
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'13 Keystone Cougar XLite 29RES, triple slides, Mor/ryde suspension, Reese 5th Airborne Sidewinder pin box coupler
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06-11-2014, 07:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Green Valley, AZ
Posts: 782
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Without more info it's hard to say but I had a similar issue on the couch slideout in our Hideout. I had caulked and recaulked the metal trim along the bottom of the short slideout side to no avail. Several got people said that would never work, that I had to take the metal trim off, clean it all up, put new butyl along the trim and then recaulk. Since then I've had no leaks and no wet carpet!
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2007 33.5' Arctic Fox Fifth Wheel used for full-timing for several years--now sold
2011 Hideout 23RKSWE that we now use for poking around local parks
2007 Chevy 3/4 ton diesel with Prodigy Brake Control
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