Week 2–The Saga of the Entertainment Slide Replacement

Yep, still another week of “camping” in the RV repair lot.  Work was done this week on fixing the crooked entertainment slide and replacing the torn rubber seal.  First was finding out why the slide had tilted so much.  The floor on the rear end had dropped down.  A metal gusset, a bracket or angular piece of metal fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness, had to be welded to the RV frame underbody.  A gusset was put on one end of the frame at the slide when new, but not the other. 

You can see in the picture above where the slide was hitting the side of the RV at the top and the rubber was torn away.  Where at the bottom, the slide and rubber were further apart.  The slide was jacked up, and the old seal was removed both inside and out.  We had a couple more days of having to be away from the RV, so we sure have become familiar with the town of MESA! 
   
We wanted the black seal because RV manufacturers are no longer using the white.  Sure wish they used it back in 2008!  We already had the black seal put on the dinning slide when that seal was tearing several years ago.  Nobody really notices,  so changing the remaining seals on other slides will have to be at another time.   At least the black seals look much cleaner.  I never did find a product that would clean the white ones.  So the slide is fixed and I cleaned off the sticky residue from the old one.  It would have been done for me, but that is just the way I am.  I wanted it cleaned and polished with my method.  It looks nice, now that it is done. 

One more item off the work order and on to the BIG problem……….