[Jack Houpe]

Tom I would like to thank you for the thread you had on slide removal and seal replacement. Yes my wife and I are going to do this ourselves we've already dug so deep into it we might as well just finish it. I purchased the seal at Newell last Monday and for anybody would like to know the updated price is $1,628 which includes a new rivnut, adhesive 495-in seal.

We were told when we purchased number 504 that the seal was defective but what led to the demise of the seal was not told, at one point in its life the locking pins were activated while the slide was in motion ripping holes in the ceiling of the slide. We discovered this after we got home and got a ladder tall enough to get on top of the slide. The holes were filled with silicone and an adhesive sealant tape put on the top. But that wasn't good enough to seal off the coach, water intruded in the bottom of the floor of the slide and one of the actuation arms for the pop-up floor had rusted the two hex head screw nuts that hold the actuation arm onto the bracket, thus it stripped out the screws while the hydraulics was trying to move it and the actuation arm came out along with the two screws. They say pictures worth a thousand words. This project has turned into a major ordeal.