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Step Slide - Slides over interior steps when driving

Yahoo Message Number: 78898
Any suggestions: Our step slide is not working and we are not sure what might have happened. Neither switch will close the slide. If anyone has experienced this issue can you recommend some fixes.
2003 Allure Cascade

Thanks Pat and John Morgan

Re: Step Slide - Slides over interior steps when driving

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Yahoo Message Number: 78899
Does the motor run??

Check the door plunger switch and wiring.

Jim

07 Allure #31570

Re: Step Slide - Slides over interior steps when driving

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Yahoo Message Number: 78901
I have had issues with my step cover slide since day one! After many hours of frustration it turned out to be two things. 4 12 awg wires are spliced together using unreliable connectors above the genset below the floor approximately where the steering shaft goes thru.. The wires aren't supported so the weight of the suspended 12 awg pulls on the #20 awg wire coming out of the cover where the wire enters the mechanism that contains the shaft driven by the motor assembly located just to the left. There's an inline spice under the cover that connects one wire to the shield of the braided cable that runs to a micro switch located inside the shaft . Well some one over crimped the connector causing the wire to fail from the weight of the under supported heavy wire swaying back and forth. As I am 6' 3 and weigh to much I can't fit to reach the connections. So Chris Snyder crawled under neath and hard wired the 4 connections, replaced the in splice under the cover and supported the wires. This took three visits over a years time before we succeeded. Another issue is if you cycle the step back and forth continuously in an attempt to find the loose or failed connection the motor will over heat and it too will become intermittent. The issue was always an intermittent thing for me. Brian Johnson and Ben while at CC struck out so many times I finally made a cover with a handle I could install and remove manually. Every time Larry Sherwood saw me his first question was in the step working, the answer was no. They didn't even question me about it being warranty or not. The coach would come back with the step working but a few thousand miles down the road and it would quit. Lucky for me it was always with the steps exposed. TWI 2004 Intrigue 11431

Re: Step Slide - Slides over interior steps when driving

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Yahoo Message Number: 78902
Sometimes when I try to force the steps to move by licking it with my foot, it will start working again. Or, you can open the electrical bay outside, under the drive's seat and use a hammer to bang on the cross beam in the ceiling. The rack and pinion assembly for the step cover is inside this beam.

Larry, 03 Allure, 30856

Re: Step Slide - Slides over interior steps when driving

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Yahoo Message Number: 78903
whoops! "Licking" = Kicking. LOL!
 

Re: Step Slide - Slides over interior steps when driving

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Yahoo Message Number: 78914
I am confused by the title, which does not correspond to the text. Does the slide not close, or is it closing when you do not want it to? If it is not closing, you might want to see if the motor is running. If it is, then the set screw on the motor to the shaft has worked loose. That happened to me. A little tight to get in there, but I pulled out the set screw, put lock-tight on it and re-tightened it (make sure the flat on the shaft is lined up).

Al Colby

2000 Intrigue 10979