Power Gear slide failure (AGAIN!)
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Our latest saga in Motor Coach breakdown recovery: After a short night due to a 2:00 AM return to Port Hueneme on Tuesday, we got ready to roll to LA for the long-anticipated Rose Parade RV Rally. When Herself tried to retract the Power Gear living room slide, the damn drive shaft broke! Not the first time this has happened. But this time yours truly was ready for it. Unfortunately, both shear pins on the motor drive had apparently sacrificed themselves, because when I replaced the one that I can get to, that only enabled one of the two gear sets. The second gear still wasn't turning. The only option was to retract both sides manually (involves big wrench and much moaning & groaning) a bit at a time to keep it straight. Got that done and kludged a "stop" to keep it from coming back out, and we were on the road in an hour. It didn't help that the 100 mile drive to our LA RV Park (in San Dimas) took over 3 hours due to !@#$% LA "freeway" traffic. You may imagine yours truly had an extra glass of Irish at Happy Hour that evening.
So we will live with a smaller-than-usual living room for a week or two until we have a chance to get to an RV Mech to get the !@#$% slide drive fixed - again! Any of you know a good CC Mechanic in the Orange County CA or San Diego or Palm Springs areas? Time to dig out another BOAT unit...
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