Slide gear stripped

I've heard only maybe 1 or 2 other times of a slideout not working.  Once I think it was electrical and the other I believe something had become unseated between the motor the rails or something of that nature.

I brought my pod home today! I can't believe how much I missed seeing it beside the house!

I talked to a service rep. that seemed to know more about the problem. He said it wasn't the gears (like the other guy said), and it wasn't the clutch, either. He said the shear pin was chewed up in pieces in the gear system, but that after they fixed that, the motor wouldn't work. They replaced the motor as well.

He showed me the pin; it was definitely chewed into pieces. It didn't look very substantial; it's hollow and small. But he said they're designed to give way if something goes wrong, to keep from causing even more damage. He wasn't sure about the motor, why it didn't work. He said it could have just been a bad one to begin with.

I'm glad to have it returned to me. Hopefully, there won't be any more problems! We're looking forward to pulling it to Vegas for the NASCAR race in March.

Thanks to everyone for your input and advice!   

Interesting that there is a shear pin. That's good news.  One would hope it would shear rather than burn out your motor or crunch your slide in case you tried to extend your slide with a telephone pole in the way.  It does seem a little odd that both the shear pin and the motor would go out at the same time though.

Glad it was simple.  And thanks a lot for the final report!

TT

The manual drive is on the end of a shaft that is driven by the motor. So if the sheer pin fails, or the motor, you can still turn the shaft.

here is a picture of a motor on ebay, notice the manual drive is in direct line with the output shaft.. the output shaft is driven by way of a reduction gear box, and is offset. If the motor or the gears or the sheer pin fail, you can still manually turn the drive shaft directly.

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This is not the motor for a pod. But it works the same. I also know it's on ebay, so will come down soon. I have been meaning to get a couple pictures of the slide mechanism in the pod.. may try to get to that this afternoon, and I will post them up.

Its not a hard fix, its called a limit switch. when you run your power windows up and down in your car do you hear a click or ratcheting sound. no, that is because there is a limit switch that cuts the power at the end of the designed travel. it aint rocket science. FR could fix this very easily.