Bedroom Slide Adjustment Help

[RJay]

Last night was an unusually cold and windy night. I happened to be near the closet and felt a draft, I thought a window might be opened but all were closed. I started checking around the top of the bed slide(drivers side) and found the top of the slide to be tilted in toward the room about an inch. I put my fingers into the space and could feel a cold draft. The slide is snug at the bottom and tilts in as I run my fingers to the top.

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and what they did to correct it. I am getting conflicting advice from Newmar as to what I should do to correct it and I am hoping to hear from someone who knows or who has made the correction. In any case I'm hoping its a fairly easy adjustment.

[Bill M]

RJay:

I had something smilar happen to my unit. After sitting in the cold 20 degree weather of NJ my bedroom slide would not go in all the way. I left it open about an inch so it was somewhat even top to bottom. Did not want to stress it out. Not traveling then anyway.

When the temperature went up about a day or two later, I ran it in and out and it worked fine. So I'm thinking it will cure itself for you too.
Good Luck, Bill

[Chickadee]

Hi:

Also have 08 Essex w. a bedroom slide issue and seeking advice about adjusting force of travel when retracting. When retract toggle is depressed so as to bring in the psngr. side bedroom slide, the slide occasionally travels all the way in and locks deploy, however, more frequently of late, this slide won't, on it's own, travel ALL the way in to the retract position without physically pushed from the outside as it moves inward. It often stops about six to eight inches from fully closed position and even when reversed outward, then inward again, will stop at about the same 6-8 inch spot from full retract.

Now, I watched techs in Nappanee once, adjust that little white dial on the slide controller box on the frame inside a rear bay, but can't recall if doing so would slightly increase, or if desired, decrease the "FORCE" of travel for this slide, and if this might be the correct thing to attempt.

I know this adjustment is very 'fine', (i.e., no big turn of this dial), and I think I recall that adjusting this dial has to do with altering the electrical amps, volts, (something !!) which affects the point at which the slide motor engages and/or disengages (ie., shuts off). Er....something.

Can someone (again) explain whether adjusting this dial might be a way to eliminate our premature shut off before the slide seats in a closed position or might help RayJ or Bill M with their slide issue. THANKS.

Steve & Lynette

[RJay]

Hi Bill,
Thanks for your reply. We've been in Louisiana for a couple of months. It was the cold weather we had recently that created the draft that alerted me to the problem.

I called Newmar about it twice, the first time I was told to put washers under the mounting bolts on the slide support bracket. I called again, different guy, to ask an additional question and was told there was an adjustment screw on the mounting saddle located under the bed toward the front of the slide.

Before I pull everything out from under the bed and crawl under there, I just thought I would ask the question here to get confirmation of one method over the other.
-Thanks.

[Bill M]

RJay:

the problem I had seemed to be caused by the awing topper. I think one of the hinges on the awing had frozen and would not fully retract. And that kept the top of the slide from going all the way in.

You may have a different problem, but when you mentioned the cold weather, I wanted to share my experience.

Good luck down the road!

Bill

["007"]

Not sure you have this type setup for your slide or not, there are nuts on rod for adjustment you may have something similar.
Click on photos for larger picture.

[RJay]

007,
The pictures you refer to is exactly what I have for the slide mechanism under the bed. My problem is that the slide, when open, is snug at the inside bottom of the bedroom wall and tilted in at the top by about a half inch allowing the outside air to come in. When the slide is in there is no gap at the mating surface of the slide and the outside wall of the rv.

After a third call to newmar, I'm told this time, there is no real adjustmet to the bed slide short of shimming the square platform that the motor rest on. My concerm is that any adjustmet I make to correct the slide tilt on the inside will affect how the side will fit to the outside when it is closed.

The only solution I can see at this point is to add a rubber gasket or weather seal to the flat surface of the inside of the slide hoping to close the gap at the top.

[a k]

Check and see if they didn't trim the wall trim at the bottom. My front slide was going out and stopping on the wall trim. It stuck out 1/2' at top. Pulled off trim and cut back, now it goes out all the way at the top.

Also. check and see if you have the right size rollers on the end of the bed. While it is all the way out ,gently lift the bottom of the bed and see if it tips toward the top.. Might have to shim rollers.

["007"]

For starters I would check what AK mentioned, just do not extend slide so wall stops you from lifting bed, than if you look at the nuts which are stop nuts for outside travel and inside stop and see if one or two is loose. There should be double nuts locked to each other. The metal plates are where they should stop.
If you click on second picture it will give measurements that I supplied to oemy so he could reset the nuts on the new rod he replaced. Your measurements may be slightly different but not much.
The nuts closes to the opposite wall cabinets would be the ones that would stop outward movement of slide plus the raised amperage to control unit when surround of slide hits the wall. Same thing happens to control unit when it hits cabinets opposite end of bed.