04-06-2023, 04:58 PM
Thanks Tom!
Your calm guidance and encouragement, along with the use of your well equipped shop made this a simple task.
Thanks also to Mark at Newell the slide man. He pointed out how to push the box back into the coach. It just take 8 people. 6 pushing and 2 guiding the hydraulic cylinders into place.
Tom called some members of his congregation to assist in pushing. With 1200 pounds leaning on the box is moves very easily.
The only hangup was not having a cylinder clocked properly. The rod end (end that attached to the slide box) has a rectangular cap that needs to fit inside the steel tube of the slide mechanism. A call to Mark to figure that out and all that was left was reattaching the interior trim and such.
See Tom's post for photos.
Points to remember. On my coach the limit switch in is the ceiling of the #2 bay. This is the bay opposite of the entry door. The insulation there was silver bubble wrap glued to plywood, screwed to the framing above.
The front slide cylinder is above the front right tire. 2 screws hold the cover in place. Don't forget to put it back. Now where did I put that cover?
The slide pins might not be required. Both of my pin cylinders have broken away from the coach side wall framing. In talking with Mark I have decided to not repair the pin cylinder mounts at this time. I have abandoned them in place for now. If I suffer no issues, rattling, instability, in use or during traveling then I'll cap off the hydraulic lines remove the pin from the cylinder and set the wires at the top of the cylinder to the appropriate normally (open) I need to confirm this with Mark. The HWH system needs to see the pins are up before the slide can move.
The slide box top trim is easier to remove and replace if you remove the leather "bar rail" from the box valance.
Your calm guidance and encouragement, along with the use of your well equipped shop made this a simple task.
Thanks also to Mark at Newell the slide man. He pointed out how to push the box back into the coach. It just take 8 people. 6 pushing and 2 guiding the hydraulic cylinders into place.
Tom called some members of his congregation to assist in pushing. With 1200 pounds leaning on the box is moves very easily.
The only hangup was not having a cylinder clocked properly. The rod end (end that attached to the slide box) has a rectangular cap that needs to fit inside the steel tube of the slide mechanism. A call to Mark to figure that out and all that was left was reattaching the interior trim and such.
See Tom's post for photos.
Points to remember. On my coach the limit switch in is the ceiling of the #2 bay. This is the bay opposite of the entry door. The insulation there was silver bubble wrap glued to plywood, screwed to the framing above.
The front slide cylinder is above the front right tire. 2 screws hold the cover in place. Don't forget to put it back. Now where did I put that cover?
The slide pins might not be required. Both of my pin cylinders have broken away from the coach side wall framing. In talking with Mark I have decided to not repair the pin cylinder mounts at this time. I have abandoned them in place for now. If I suffer no issues, rattling, instability, in use or during traveling then I'll cap off the hydraulic lines remove the pin from the cylinder and set the wires at the top of the cylinder to the appropriate normally (open) I need to confirm this with Mark. The HWH system needs to see the pins are up before the slide can move.
The slide box top trim is easier to remove and replace if you remove the leather "bar rail" from the box valance.
1998 Coach 484
1997 Suzuki Sidekick toad.
Cheers.