Newmar full wall slide - trantorque bushing failure?

[PdMeehan]

Two years ago I set out on a five month trip out west and back. Midway on the trip I discovered three shims lying on the floor of the Oasis bay. I had no idea what they were until I searched the Internet and found an exact image of what I saw in my bay. Initially I thought they were components of the Oasis but when I looked up I saw where the trantorque bushing had separated on the slide out bar. I had the shims placed on the rod and the nut started but was unable to apply the proper torque. Fortunately I was on my way to Cummins in Henderson, CO. The service tech had a 1 1/2" crow foot wench and torqued the connection to 175 ft/Lbs. I have since bought the crowfoot wrench and check the torque when I check the torque on the slide motor mount bolts and windshield wiper are nuts. Now just another ongoing maintenance item.

 

[Neal]

Update Tuesday Nov 7th AM aka Day 2:

Tech's arrived to pickup the coach and first thing was to torque the bushings, they were tight. Tech thought slide motor gears were stripped but that was not it. It is the control board, hallelujah! The slide guru was with my tech and he was able to manually push some buttons on the board to bring in the slide. I chatted with the tech after to learn what he did. I told him how some of us have had these boards quit working and our fix is a 12V off for 30 seconds. I also told him my house batteries were end of life and could that be it? Cars do whacky things when the battery is bad. No real answer there.

After manually pushing buttons on the control board to bring in the slide we got in the service center and the slide still would not work, which is a good thing. They swapped the board to a temp board and all worked fine. New board on order and that will get installed and re-programmed.

Glad it happened here and it was more good learning on how to manually bring these slides in at the board. Otherwise the way to bring a slide in is loosening the trantorque bushings and pushing the slide in then tighten them again to secure in the closed position. The slide guru commented that the newer coaches don't use these trantorque bushings and have square rods vs our round ones and wasn't pleased with that design change. Not sure how you bring in a slide with that setup.

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

I hope you received enough information from the "slide guru" that you can do a tech write-up on how to bring the slide in from the control board.

 

[Neal]

I hope you received enough information from the "slide guru" that you can do a tech write-up on how to bring the slide in from the control board.

I would love to find the manual that outlines programming a slide controller.

 

[stang37]

THIS IS NOT A TECH WRITE UP !!!
If you have dual motors on the FWS this is probably the controller information. KIB DCS 100. https://newpar.newmarcorp.com/instance1Env99NEWMAR/html/images/SS2011KIBDSC100.pdf. There are (5) five buttons on the control board. The center button is for programing and manual operation of the slide motors individually. The other (4) buttons control motors A & B. Each motor has a set of buttons. One button is for (out) and the other is for (in) for each motor. I had to go into the manual operations mode to get my FWS in a couple months back. I'm headed to factory in March to get things figured out and fixed.
THIS IS NOT A TECH WRITE UP !!!

 

[Neal]

Thanks @stang37 that is exactly what I was hoping to find. I'll post that over in the Resources soon so it's on file on the site.

So yes, the dual controller has 5 buttons, a center "mode" button and then the other two represent the two motors going in or out. From what I recall from very early this morning is press the center button until all of the LED's light up, that's manual mode. Then you can press the pair of forward or aft buttons to move the slide.

If I hadn't known this or have this problem we all know the routine. Call in, they'd likely tell us to loosen the trantorque's and push slide in. Mine actually failed with forward out 6 inches and aft not out at all, drivable but not ideal.

So good to know...there is another way to drive these electric slides in some scenarios.

 

[team bradfield]

here are the instructions for the kitchen slide reprogram, not sure if the dual is the same, very simple

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

here are the instructions for the kitchen slide reprogram, not sure if the dual is the same, very simple

I was going to post that same link. I've used that on my kitchen slide when it got out of sync - the front was out further than the back. I'm curious if its the same board and procedure.

 

[Neal]

I was going to post that same link. I've used that on my kitchen slide when it got out of sync - the front was out further than the back. I'm curious if its the same board and procedure.

Should be for any dual motor controller.