Slideout Problems

[David Brady]

I think one of the problems with the pneumatic seal is
over pressurizing. When the seal is installed the air pressure
regulator must be adjusted to 15 to 17psi max, anything above
this will cause the seal to ultimately fail. This info is from
HWH. I believe most factories, BB included, tend to
over pressurize the seal to ensure complete contact around
the entire slide body. The fact is, a new seal needs to
stretch, and will in time. If the seal does not make compete
contact initially, it will as it stretches. We must resist the
temptation to over inflate.

For slide issues I'd recommend going directly to HWH and
skipping BB.

David B
'02 LXi, Smokey
Va, soon to be NC

luckyron1 wrote:
> We had several slide issues with our 2000 LXI. In the process, we
> learned that the previous owner had been to the factory for a NEW
> SEAL, and also for some repairs to the slide finish because of BB
> engineering and Owner operation issues. We took it to HWH twice
> before we got to the root of the problem. BB had improperly
> installed the NEW SEAL generating a host of expensive problems for
> us. HWH installed another NEW SEAL and showed us how the job had
> been botched by BB. I haven't gotten around to bringing it to the
> attention of BB management yet, but, in fairness to them I will be
> contacting them for their response.
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> luckyron near Dallas,TX
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