Slide-Out Maintenance

**Back in the day, this was called a pull-out room. These days, there’s no pulling needed. Just push a button.**

About 2 or 3 times a year, I take a few hours to do slide-out maintenance.

The rubber all around this electric slide-out is cleaned and treated. You see the gear tracks on the top & bottom of this slide-out. I clean those tracks with compressed air or a soft tooth brush, and then I lube those tracks. I lift the rubber & spray where the gear teeth are, too.

When the slides are out, I rinse, wipe and lightly wax the sides and bottom. I do as much of the top, as I can. I use a can of compressed air, or my air pump, to blow areas around any gears, gear tracks and other places. When I use lube on any areas, it is from a can of dry lube, or power lube with PTFE. Cans of slide lube are available in rv stores, and rv sections of department stores, and I have used some of those products, at times, over our 20+ years of rving. The rubber seals attached to the motorhome body, and to the inside of the extended slide-out, need to be cleaned and treated too. I clean with a safe rubber cleaner, or water and wiping will work. Lately, after cleaning the rubber seals, I’ve used baby powder, with a light dusting and wiping. But, I’ve also used rubber seal treatment products. I saw the baby powder treatment on a few rv forums, and it seems to be working well. While I’m doing slide-out maintenance, I also have the electric patio awning cover extended, and I use a spray lube on areas that move and fold.

The full wall slide-out is a hydrolic slide, and I clean and lightly wax the bottom and wipe down the rails. The sides, and rubber around the slide is cleaned and treated. I do the best that I can with the long top of the full wall slide-out by using the ladder and pad on an extendable pole (that works well under the slide-out topper)

During one trip, the hydrolic full wall slide-out was inching out…while I was driving! I could see it out of my side mirror. Replacing the correct HWH solenoid valve solved the problem. There are 2 valves for the slide (extend & retract) and 4 valves (one for each hydrolic leveling jack). Notice the fluid container is half-full. It’ll be at the full level once the slide-out and jacks are retracted. Thanks to Stoney @ Bayou Outdoor for educating me about all of this.

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