Newbie help! Hydraulic jacks and slides??

Lennyp-FRF

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OK so I have a 2013 forest river cardinal 3800fl ...6 point level up jacks...it has 5 slides but only 3 are hydraulic. It has one big pump and a bunch of valves in the front compartment. In transport it blew a tire and ripped out the rear hydraulic hose on the far real drivers side jack...(black hose) .....do I got it stable the best I could . And I pinched the hose off so that I can open the slides .....so 2 problems ....one is I want to order the hose but the way it goes into the frame I can't for the life of me find the other end because they are sealed in with rubber coating . When I look at how they connect the hoses from jacks to pump every diagram is different so I don't know if the blow hose goes to the middle jack on the same side, the other rear jack, ot all the way to the pump? .....and also I was messing with the valves trying to open the slides .....and I messed something up because now when I hit the slide switch the jacks movee...lol......I really need to find out where that hose goes and what valves should be clockwise and counterclockwise .....any help??? Thank you
 

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What hydraulic system is installed on your rig. I would think the Mfg could tell you how to set the valves. Why don't you just copy the position of the hose on the other rear jack instead of some diagram just wondering.
 
LCI has manuals on their web site with hydraulic schematics for the different systems they have manufactured through the years.

Have you looked there?

Closing the valves/knobs on the block allows you to operate each slide independently vs all three in sequence.

Here is one such example of the schematic...
 

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LCI has manuals on their web site with hydraulic schematics for the different systems they have manufactured through the years.

Have you looked there?

Closing the valves/knobs on the block allows you to operate each slide independently vs all three in sequence.


Yes I downloaded and printed everything from lippert and other similar manufacturers and it helped understand some stuff. But my exact setup I can not find anywhere on lippert or online or with forest river I almost think that the valves might be an aftermarket or custom in some way which is fine if I could understand exactly where they went but nothing is labeled and when I hit the slide button then 2 Jack's raise up lol....it's a hot mess
 

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