Before anything happens .......pics, how to put slide in?

[Kuba]

I will be heading out in few days for a week. My slide workS fine, but out of curiosity, how do I put it in after it fails to retract. my trailer is two years old and I'm not worried, but don't want to browse the forums when it gets stuck out.

[Kuba]

[jtstromsburg]

I believe that's a schwintech mechanism. Unless you have an opening for a hand crank on the opposite side, I think the correct way is to disconnect power to the site motor, physically push the slide in, then reapply power. I may be wrong though, so others will chime in

[jevanb]

Originally Posted by jtstromsburg

I believe that's a schwintech mechanism. Unless you have an opening for a hand crank on the opposite side, I think the correct way is to disconnect power to the site motor, physically push the slide in, then reapply power. I may be wrong though, so others will chime in

no opening , but yes pull power or remove/loosen motor screws and lift motor out of the way then push the slide in, you tube is your friend on how to do this

[b_garage]

Mine has a small panel held in place with a couple screws. The crank access is inside.

[raspivey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymt1Uesf0Pc

[jevanb]

Originally Posted by b_garage

Mine has a small panel held in place with a couple screws. The crank access is inside.

you have a schwintech slide out and it has a crank?? never heard of that, take pict and i would like to see how it is attached to the motors (yes 2 ea) mounted in the upper corners

[Thurman]

In photo #2 notice the black material on the bottom of the slide. This is the same material that is on the bottom of my slide on my FR Grand Surveyor. Why do I bring this up? My unit has a "Lippert (or Lippet) under-sofa" mechanism that uses two six-inch long rollers for the slide to roll on when traveling in and out. That black stuff just does not work as a support for these (or any other) rollers. The rollers on mine had locked up and torn through that black stuff then dug into the plywood bottom of the slide. I had posted on this forum as to how I had to fix all of this.

[Kuba]

Thurman, thanks. I retract my slide three times a year before winter and twice when I go away with my kid I read your post before and will keep an eye on stuff. Thanks again

[SirArchie357 Magnum]

Okay Gents, I'm new to all of this my slide is exactly as the one pictured in photo# 2 but I see no way to manually retract the slide, will some one please show the exact location of the manual override.

Thanks

[Kuba]

came back from the.trip and everything worked as planned; )

[Thurman]

A "for what it's worth" comment: My slide has a Lippert "under sofa" unit that operates electrically (12vDC). But if something happens and one would need to manually operate the slide- -the drive unit is indeed under the sofa. You have to lay on the floor of the unit to reach it. There is a pin that has to be pulled which I believe dis-engages the drive unit, then there is a hex shaped protrusion that can be turned with a wrench or ratchet/socket. After I bought this unit I thought about manually moving the slide just in case I would ever need to do so. It takes a lot of turning this manual mechanism to get the slide to move and it's not easy. I did have somewhat of the opposite problem once. While returning home from a trip I noticed in my outside rear view mirror that my slide was out while going down the road at 60 MPH. I slowed down then stopped at the next place that was safe to do so and wound up literally pushing the slide back into place. I have no means of blocking the slide in the closed position so I just had to be careful getting home. It turns out that a shear pin had sheared within the drive unit itself. Not a bad job to replace it but I sure felt lucky to have made it on home.