Need help with the hovel (camper)

[chassis]

My slide room is stuck in the retracted position. I'm pretty sure the hydraulic pump, cylinder, motor and battery are good. I've done multiple tests to confirm that. I think I have it narrowed down to the "bearing packs", as shown on Lippert Component's manuals.

Has anyone had a problem like this before? How easy is it to R&R these bearing packs?

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[John Bridge]

Hang tight, Will. My slide is small (just the couch), and it's a bear to get in and out. It's manual. :D

[dgunnels]

Can't help. Sorry. The slides are one of the few things that work on my unit.

[chassis]

Fixed it. It was a frozen gear/bearing pack as I suspected. Our Maine trip was in doubt if I didn't get this fixed. Thanks to all.

[cx]

Glad it was simple, Will. :)

Slide outs are the one thing I've always avoided in all my hovels. Just ain't worth it to my mind, 'specially when I already have plenty trouble squeezin' mine into the places I like to park'em.

But for y'all peoples who don't never take yours off the pavement, prolly they's a good eye-dee. Well, when they ain't broke, that is. Or leakin'. Or got so much trash outa the trees that you can't close'em. Or when........ Aw, never mind. :D

[John Bridge]

Always humbug with CX. Slides are good things. Get a life, will ya? :D

[chassis]

Agree with John. Sorry cx. ;) With 4 of us in the unit, a slideout is pretty much a necessity. How else could I stretch out on the sofa and watch the Rose Bowl on the 27" flat screen in the air conditioning, after eating a steak dinner? Now that is roughing it, I tell ya! ;)

p.s. Forgot to mention chocolate mousse for dessert.

p.p.s. cx, it waren't easy to fix that bugger. I was laying on the gravel, with hammer and wrench and chisel, in the monsoon we had here for 4 days. I was clinging to the hovel for fear of being floated away. In the dark, mind you.

[cx]

Yeah, listen to ol' JB for hovel advice. Hell, he couldn't even figger out which end of his hovel to git in and out so he bought one with a door at each end. :rolleyes:

I hear ya, Will. I came this close to buyin' a big ol' 37-footer with a tag axle and a big ol' slide-out. Damn, that was a nice coach, and a very nice deal, too. But then I started thinkin' about alla really nice places I like to take mine, and how I sometimes already hafta pewt stones inna water-bars to git over, trim the tree limbs to git under, drag logs to git around and...........then I got me another smaller one like I had before. :)

[dgunnels]

I always feel just a little guilty telling folks that, "I'm going camping." While they picture me putting up a tent, I've running out the slides on the camper with the king size bed, microwave and full bar. Who wants to stay in a hotel when you got it this good? :D

[John Bridge]

I'm tellin' Patti we gotta get a bigger rig. I ain't got no full bar. Ain't even got any countertop that ain't taken up by sink and range. :D

[cx]

Oh, and whilst we're onna subject of hovels, JB, my new one is a full 8' 6" wide onna outside, according to the literature I found inside, which computes pretty well with our measurement of 8' onna inside. They musta cut some kinda deal with alla DOTs, seems like.

And I also found that that big ol' dumbass TV right in the middle of the dash at least turns itsownself off when the ignition is turned on. But how many minutes counted on no more than the fingers of two hands (even Opie's) would it take a bright child to defeat that so's he could watch F'ball whilst drivin' down the road? :rolleyes:

And I ain't got no more counter space in mine than you got. I'll fix some of that, though, with the installation of my fine office of which you so heartily approved. :D

[Davestone]

John i told you them rv's are like boats, they look big in the driveway, but once you move into them. :goodluck: My in-laws have been tryin to get me to make them some more counter space, but ya gotta have some empty room first. :D I ever tell ya about a friend of my father-in-laws that had been livin in his rv for ten years, one time he was drivin down the road, and just got up and went to get somethin outta the fridge,,,,forgot he was even drivin,almost ran into a bridge. :wtf:

[dgunnels]

(J.B. you gotta bring your own bar beverages.) I made sure that I removed all the adult beverages before they picked my camper up for it's return trip to the factory. Soemthings can't be replaced.

I wish they would quit installing those stupid fake fireplaces and offer a wine fridge instead. Now that's an accresory I could use. :loaded: