Inspecting the Exterior of a Lippert Slide-Out Room
Dave SolbergDescription
The Lippert Slide-Out is a vital upgrade for any RVer looking to add space to the living quarters on their rig. With the push of a button, you can open up your room to nearly double its size and make your room, and your experience, much more comfortable. Plus, one of the major benefits of the Lippert Slide-Out is this: as easy as it is to operate, it’s nearly as easy to maintain.
In this lesson, RV repair expert Dave Solberg teaches you how to take proper care of your slide room. Although there isn’t too much that could go wrong with a Lippert Slide-Out, it is important that you routinely check the exterior of your slide room to ensure all components are in ideal working condition.
You’ll learn how to inspect the seals, flapper, springs and gears for any obstructions or debris, and discover what you should do if you notice the gears aren’t spinning the way they ought to. As Dave points out, the process for monitoring your slide room isn’t extensive, but it is essential. Take precaution ahead of time, and you won’t have to worry about it when you hit the road!
The Lippert hydraulic slide, that in the frame slide like we see here on our coach and dinette has very little maintenance. Basically just taking some time to inspect certain areas. First of all, the seals. We have a bulb seal on the outside. This is going to be on the flange. It's gonna push against the wall and seal it when it's in. We have another seal on the inside, just like it. This is our flapper or squeegee. And we just want to periodically look at that make sure it's not torn, make sure it's intact. Once a year just treat it with a bulb seal component that they have. The other thing is we want to look down underneath. This is a little spring here that that's our 12 volt wiring that's gonna to go in for our lights. Just make sure it hasn't caught on anything, isn't ripped out. Underneath we've got some gears that when it goes in and out, we don't want any debris, we don't want any dirt or mud or something like that. Just clean it with soap and water or carwash. Don't use any type of silicone or sprays or anything on that. There are two points that we can lubricate on the actual gears themselves, but we want to just kind of take an overview underneath, look at everything. Now this unit had a tire blowout. It blew out the skirting under here and it also ripped some of our trim underneath. And we see where it's kind of hanging down. We're gonna reattach that. Otherwise the maintenance on it is just look for any hydraulic fluid that might be leaking underneath. We're going to have to get that fixed and periodically check the reservoir for the fluid inside. They use an ATF, which is a transmission fluid. Check the level of that and check the wiring just to make sure that those electrical wires from the 12 volt battery are coming in and good and connected. But, otherwise really not a lot of maintenance.
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