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We had to pull the living room slide out in for our spring trip back to Wisconsin and when it came in this last time there was some major grinding but it did come in.

We have pulled down the insulation on the dinette side of the slideout and found a major failure of a part. It kind of looks somewhat like the hydraulic pin casings that house the locking pins for the slides.

As you can see from the picture, one bolt has totally pulled out of the metal and the other bolt has bent.

We're not sure if this failure was the beginning of our problem or if a problem with the actuator and/or possible worn out bushing could have caused this part to fail. So our next step is to take out the couch and see what we can find under the access panel.

We don't know if we will be able to get the slide out to go back out with this part broken as it is. Do you think we would be able to get the slide out to go back out?? We are in rainy Wisconsin and are not undercover so we can't have the slide out 1/2 way out or anything.

We're not sure how to access this broken part with the slide out in. Is there any access below the dinette?

Thanks for your help!!