Slide comes in crooked
2019 travel trailer, cable-driven living room slide. 30A shore
Customer says: When the slide comes in, the left side goes all the way but the right side stops about 2 inches short and the motor groans.
Tests you can run
- Voltage at the motor while it runs
- Check the opening and track for anything in the way
- Measure the gap at each side with the room stopped
- Check tension on the cables at each side
- Measure the diagonals of the wall opening
- Measure the diagonals of the room box
- Look at the cable ends and drums for damage
- Replace the slide motor
Repair options
The lesson behind this case
- Identify the slide system in a minute
- How a cable slide is built and pulls the room
- Diagnosing cable slide problems
Keep going on slides and leveling
Learn it
- How a slide room is built and carried
- Identify the slide system in a minute
- The in-wall controller: versions and fault codes
- Ball-screw actuator slides: clutch, stops, diagnosis
- Rack and pinion drive: electrical diagnosis
Prove it
- Slide stalls halfway out
- Hydraulic slide crawls and stops
- One side of the slide won't move
- Auto-level leaves it crooked
- Slide dead both ways, no sound
See it in 3D
Codes and specs
- Slides: schwintek
- Lippert in-wall and through-frame slides
- Leveling: ground control
- Lippert 5th wheel hydraulic auto level