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Slide wench location help, please

Yahoo Message Number: 112860
Look in the big bay under the slide bolted to the top

Robert Mcclernon
2000 Intrigue

Robert McClernon
2000 Intrigue
40 one slide cummins 375

Re: Slide wench location help, please

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Yahoo Message Number: 112867
Mine is an '02 Intrigue 36', and yes, the winch is carried loose in one of the bays... no provisions to secure it for storage.

John Coleman
#11467

Re: Slide wench location help, please

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Yahoo Message Number: 112870
If your living room slide is a Power Gear electric slide, you need a 12" adjustable end wrench (not included in your rig). The slide is retracted by turning the 1" square drive shaft with the wrench. I had to do this last year, and found it was very easy, after I went to NAPA and got a big enough wrench! To lock it in place, I had to wedge the wrench under the floor (ceiling of the basement compartment) and tie the wrench in place with parachute cord so it couldn't come loose. That held the slide in place for the 500 mile trip to Fountain RV in Lakeland FL, where the broken drive motor gearbox was replaced.

Don Hutchins
'08 Allure 470 #31613
Don Hutchins
'08 Allure 470 #31613
40' w/tag, Cat C-9 & Cat tranny

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Yahoo Message Number: 112874
Had similar experience with pot metal gear box drive disintergrating. Used large "C" clamp to hold the shaft.

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Yahoo Message Number: 112919
Are you seriously still looking for a young girl or prostitute to pull your slides in?! If you could locate a winch, it would work much better.

Dave Trotter

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Yahoo Message Number: 112920
If you have the correct winch it mounts to the table steel brace that attaches to the wall and angles up to support the frame to which the table top is attached. Then you release the pressure on the control solenoid that controls the slide to retract and crank the the slide in. If on the other hand the slide wants to creep out, then you release the pressure on the other solenoid and crank the slide in. Been there done that. The thing that had me going was after cycling the slide room for about 10 times it started working perfectly again. Maybe that was beginners luck. Anything to make travel an adventure. TWI 2004 Intrigue 11731.

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Yahoo Message Number: 112921
Thomas is right, the same thing happened to us about a week ago. One of the bedroom slides kept creeping out as we were preparing to leave camp. We would bring it in, turn our backs, and out it would creep. There had been a big temperature change overnight, and I thought perhaps there was an air bubble in the system, so we just cycled the two bedroom slides in and out 3 times, and that fixed it, no more creep. It has been fine now for a week. Sure beats unloading the basement to find the winch and playing Waldo to find the big eye bolts in the rooms...

Also, I know my hydraulic fluid level is fine, as before we left on the trip, I configured the rooms in/out in correct configuration (per manual) and checked the level, and everything was fine. So I guess air bubbles can get in there even with proper amount of hydraulic fluid in system.

Greg
06 Magna

2006 Magna Rembrandt C13
2016 Jeep GC toad

Re: Slide wench location help, please

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Yahoo Message Number: 112925
Look for hidden panel, or a piece of cabinet trim Velcro attached, in center of rooms. The eye bolts will be behind that.

2006 Magna Rembrandt C13
2016 Jeep GC toad

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Yahoo Message Number: 112932
Only Affinities in Magnas come with wenches standard. They were an option on the Intrigue. I keep mine in the 3rd Bay, near the inverter compartment where it's warmer in the winter. I do let her up into the bedroom at night when I'm in the mood.

Rich 2002 Magna

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Yahoo Message Number: 112934
Mine is in the dinette seat facing the rear of the coach. The other wench lets me sit there as well for a while when I'm "good" :) otherwise :( . Back under the dinette seat go I as well.
Vince
02 Intrigue
#11332

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Reply #12 –
Yahoo Message Number: 112935
Rich.........Thanks for the tongue-in-cheek humor. Much needed to relieve the pain and confusion of the blind misuse of words and bad spelling.

Dave Trotter

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Yahoo Message Number: 113035
I'm sure glad that there are others who can find humor in some of these misteaks. Thank you, Dave.
Ken
 

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Yahoo Message Number: 113038
Maybe the wench will bring you a beer to go with the misteak!

Ray

They say wine improves with age! As I enter my golden years, I say age improves with wine! The Born Loser

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On 11/2/2017 10:44:37 PM, "Ken Harrison second98@... [Country-Coach-Owners]" Country-Coach-Owners@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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I'm sure glad that there are others who can find humor in some of these misteaks. Thank you, Dave.
Ken