[encantotom]

day 5

we took the weekend off.  i also have to admit i didnt take enough pictures for a primer on how to do this.  refer to my other post on doing my slide seal on my coach.

this was a ton more work and problems than doing mine.  i had about 10 people total trying to push the slide back in today.  no joy.

what we ended up doing (thanks to my canadian snow bird farmer neighbor who is a mechanical genius) was to have him(he is small) crawl in the bay and ratchet it in from inside the bay.  then it went right in.  

took us a while to get the ram threaded in the nuts in the slide, but got it in and all aligned.   but.....what we found out when glen found a white plastic pad with shims on it hiding in the front bay.   uh ohhh    it was the white ptfe slide plate.  that was missing under where the slide track got crushed.   the picture show the plastic after we got it back in.  we had to rejack the slide up, and us long pry bars and put spacers in there to hold it up till we could get the plastic slide pad back in.  it has two plastic dowels on it and they went in holes in the slide frame rail.  

so, got it all repaired and in.  

so tomorrow is getting the slide interior pieces all back together, change the extend slide solenoid, put in the vacuum pump for the slide,  do the rivet recall fix for the slide skin shifting.  

good day, but long.  

life is good

tom