Hi, I have a 2013 177 and I've been doing the kind of maintenance that I guess you end up doing on what is now a ten year old trailer as well as some mods mentioned in other posts. It's in reasonably good shape, IMO, but while I was putting a rust inhibitor on the trailer frame I was looking at the slide from underneath (which was out) and noticed that the actual track part seemed to have some separation from the floor of the slide. Upon examination, it is attached to the floor of the slide (from the underside) with two screws and they are pulled out from the wood of the floor by about 1/4". So I thought, nbd, I'll just see if I can tighten them up. But no dice, they have effectively been pulled out of the wood, they turn loose, and thus are stripped. The plate (not sure what you call it) of the slide itself looks fine but the screws show some rust. Everything else looks fine. The plate is obviously sagged by that 1/4" but the slide is not sagging, nor is there sagging in the wall or floor of the trailer. So any thoughts? Anyone seen this problem before? My thought would be the get a jack or something and push the plate up to the floor then try to tighten those screws. The will not tighten with the plate sagging (again, they are partially stripped) and trying to push and hold the plate up to the floor with my hand won't work. If I have the plate pushed up the the floor then I can get the screws out and assess how to deal with the problem. Just wondered again if anyone else has seen this.
I've not had any issues with the slide at all. There's part of me that is thinking to leave it alone, but that also seems like a bad idea as if it fails while I'm camping that would not be good.
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