slide and automatic jacks won't retract

[beachlover2]

Our slide in the main room will not retract. The jacks won't come up either. The bedroom slides worked fine. What could the problem be?

[NWJeeper]

The ignition key MUST be off for the slides to work. The engine MUST be running for the levelers to work. If you still can't get things to move then start looking for a breaker near the batteries to reset. I have never had troubles with this so I don't know exactly what the breaker looks like but others here do.

You might also check the switch (for the main slide) and be sure that a wire hasn't pulled loose on the back side of it. Could explain why the other slide works and the main doesn't.

[beachlover2]

Thanks for your reply! We will keep trying to solve the problem. This is our first camper with slides so we are dumb and inexperienced!

[Lawfive]

The same thing happened to me when I was picking my unit up from the dealer. The bedroom slide worked because it was electrically driven. The other slides and jacks wouldn't work because they were hydraulically driven and the Lippert levelling system hydraulic motor failed. Lippert advised the techs to look for the large breaker usually mounted near the retractable steps. My 391 UFO chassis had the breaker in the battery compartment. However, it was fine. Lippert's manual does show you how to pull in slides and raise jacks using an electric drill and a 1/4" bit to "manually" turn the hydraulic cylinders. Ugh. I hope your problem is in breakers not motor. Took almost a week to get a replacement. Check hydraulic fluid too. Hope this helped and didn't confuse the issue.

[kvtaylor]

One of our slides didn't quite close one time. I was able to get it closed after a while and took it to our dealer. He said I had popped the circut breaker mounted on the frame above the batteries. He said it was due to not having the batteries fully charged. so now I leave the power pluged in until I close all of my slides. Then I pul the electric plug and start the engine with the brake set and raise the jacks. works every time..Hope this helps.

[beachlover2]

Thanks, Lawfive and kvtaylor for your help. We have the battery compartment open and there is a diagram that "sane" people could probably follow, but not us! What do the breakers look like and how do your know if they are tripped or popped (whatever you call it)?

[Lawfive]

My breaker is a black plastic box about an inch and a half square and about a quarter to a half inch thick. There should be a lever or button protruding from the breaker if its tripped. Since mine didn't pop, I can't tell you from experience. You could always call the Lippert folks. Do you need an online manual?

The breaker, I'm guessing since I don't have the wiring diagram in front of me, should be on one of the major cables coming off the house batteries. Someone with more education and experience could give you more detail.

Luck!

[beachlover2]

Thanks for your help, Law. We will go look again. I would love to have a link for the Lippert manual. I saw it the first day I came here but can't find it now.

[Lawfive]

Here is the link to their manuals. Google as ever gets me there.

Owners Manuals

[beachlover2]

It's fixed!!! Thanks for all your help. It turned out to be two-fold: 1. we took the coach battery out and had it tested and it was bad. 2. the breaker was popped. Our breaker was black and up on the frame above the batteries on the top left side. You really had to get on the ground and look up to find it. A new battery and flipping the lever up worked. The lever (or whatever it should be called) was thin and flat and had to be flipped up to work. We had been looking for something different. I wanted to describe the thing in case anyone else can't find their breaker,etc. Thanks, Law for describing your breaker for us... big help. Now, the slide is retracted and the jacks are up! Oh, thanks for the manual. I bookmarked it.