Slide out on the 178

Keith-N-Dar, I didn't mean my comments as a ding on your armor. My apologies if it came across as that ... I was just remembering the frustration I had when I thought the crank was what I should use. It was a really painful ordeal for an old guy bending over ....  the bit and drill was an epiphany!  

do you drill thru the panel or is your nut not hidden by permanent frame as mine is? the nut is about one inch to the right of the permanent frame.
Allen

My 2010 174 has a panel that has to be removed to get to the nut. A little measuring and a 3 inch hole saw makes a perfect path for my 3/4 in socket with 3/8 cordless drill

Originally posted by asreichler I was looking at the slide out motor assembly and have not figured a way to get a wrench on the nut for manual movement. I also noted the rack has no lub on it. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I had glanced at this before and I remember thinking getting any sort of wrench on that nut would be a pain, but I figured I'd cross that bridge if I ever came to it and forgot about it.  Your question made me go out and look again.

My drive nut is offset behind the pull-off panel.  There is no way to get anything other than a flat wrench or ratchet on the nut without cutting some of the paneling under the drawers out of the way.  This seems like very poor engineering to me.

Fortunately, it will only take a tiny bit of cutting to create a straight path for either a cordless drill with the right socket, or the stabilizer crank.  I can cut little more out of the bottom panel and still have the hole hidden by the cover panel.  I shouldn't complain.  I'm fairly adept at dealing with these things, but not everyone is.  I imagine this is the kind of thing that might cost someone a few hundred dollars for a service call when all it takes to fix is less than a minute with a coping saw or less than that in proper planning and construction in the first place.

My gears are dry too.  I might put a little white grease on them but I don't know whether they really need anything.  They are big, slow moving gears.  Not much heat from friction during use.

I also recommend carrying a cordless drill for the slide, if needed, and for the stabilizer jacks.  Way more fun than the hand crank!

TT

Originally posted by Keith-N-Dar Try the crank for the stabilizer jacks on the bolt.