5th Wheel Slide Out Floor Repair

You have to remove the trash bin to get to the floor where the rollers are.

5th wheel slide out floor repair.

Extend your slide outs on the fifth wheel. Rrbowman on 10 31 13 04 51pm the bedroom slide in my coachmen chaparell has to be pulled out of the trailer and the slide floor will need to be replaced due to a leak that caused the plywood floor to rot and delaminate. Maintain your slide out rv with slideout lubrication. After that proceed to remove the carpet as well though its removal is going to be a bit trickier than the flooring.

Just a thought even if it helps someone else. Use a wire brush to remove any debris dirt paint chippings or rust from your slide out tracks. Also support the rails from the ground. In this video i get busy repairing a rotten section of my main slide out room floor in my 2011 276rls keystone cougar fifth wheel.

If you slide the section about 2 3 of the way out then you can get better access and use a 2 by 6 to give you the lift you need to work. A roughly 17 x 45 section of plywood needed to be cut out and replaced with a fresh piece. Has anyone done this type of repairs before. You might be wondering how this flooring has held up.

Over the years water intruded and slowly turned the 3 4 plywood in one of the slide floor corners to mush. Get the old flooring and carpet out. Maybe push the slide out all but 6 and remove the trim edge. Apply lubricant on the gears tracks and rails of your slide outs.

If you re looking for ways to finish the edge of your rv slide out you may want to consider using flush mount stair nose moulding also known as bullnose stair moulding or an overlap reducer. Clean out all the dirt and road debris from the tracks. Then extend the slide to the normal position out. Do the repair and reverse the procedure.

This is what we originally planned to use but couldn t find any that matched our specific flooring at the local floor and decor stores. Unfasten the slide from the rails after there is blocking between the rails and the floor of the slide. Choose from the available selections of slide out lube rust b l16 slide out seal tx b l 17 rv slide out lube 15 oz bil slide out rubber seal treatment 17 slide out lube 12 oz and slide out dry lube protectant. This may be a difficult location to find and work on.

If you suspect that there is a leak somewhere in your rv s slide out make sure to treat both sides of the slide out s old seal with a new sealing solution. For some rvs the rollers are under your kitchen cabinets for kitchen slide outs. Please thumbs up this video and we really need your help for us to reach our 10000 subscribers goal.