Newmar Rear Slide Rollers

[fsowerby]

2005 Kountry Star - The rear bedroom slide is leaving black "powder" marks on the carpeting next to bed. Suspect the slide roller bearing is failing. Have seen roller replacement operation on front slide where entire slide is tipped (when partially out) to gain access underneath to replace the rollers. Bedroom slide does not tip. Best guess is that rollers are located behind bedstand that moves in/out with the slide. Has anyone had experience with replacing bedroom slide rollers? Thanks.

[GaryKD]

Hi fsowerby,
Welcome to iRV2 and the Newmar owners forum. My signature coach may be the same as your coach. Double bed on a street side slide.

If you raise up the foot of the bed:
1. Remove the protective cover and look straight down in the middle, one can see the front half of the rear roller. One could devise a tool to clean the front half of the roller and lubricate the front roller shaft.

2. Remove the protective cover on the front side of the bed. This cover exposes the slide motor. One can shine a light back toward the foot of the bed. One can see the entire forward roller. The side shafts should be able to be lubricated and most if not all the roller cleaned. This assumes using the tool devised for the rear roller.

This is going to be a PITA no matter how one looks at it. Other than disassembling the bed, I have no idea how a tech would physically get at the rollers.

["007"]

Welcome fsowerby to the Newmar forum and irv2.
You can do as Gary says but first move slide out 1/3 of the way so you will clear the sidewall as you tilt the slide up from foot of bed. Have some blocks to keep up so you can work on rollers. You could place some thin plywood on rug temporary while working on rollers.