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Old 05-29-2010, 12:29 PM   #1
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open slides manually

I have a keystone 2980, 3 slides,
and they work fine, but when they won't, where do you put the manual crank in to work?
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Old 05-29-2010, 01:18 PM   #2
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If you go to the Keystones website they have an instructional video on where to place the manual crank for extending and retracting the slides.
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Old 05-29-2010, 01:50 PM   #3
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If your slides are hydraulic and the electrical system for the slides fails you can run the pump with a drill motor. Locate the pump assembly in the front compartment, on the end of the motor you will see paper seal/disc in the center, punch a hole in this, get a long screwdriver bit and place it backwards in your drill, this gives you a hex drive, place this in the end of the motor and use the drill to run the motor and pump. One direction will run your slides in, the other out. Hope this helps
Go to this link and click on the video "Override your slides"
http://www.keystonerv.com/?page=video_library

This video shows how to override both electric and hydraulic slides.
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Old 05-29-2010, 04:31 PM   #4
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I’ve never had to use the manual crank but I’m glad it’s there. As I understand it, it’s only a backup for the hydraulic motor should there be a loss of power. On the other hand; I would like to see a manual cranking system as a backup in case the hydraulic system would fail. To my knowledge there is no back up in that situation. Someone please tell me I’m wrong.
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Old 05-30-2010, 12:05 AM   #5
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I’ve never had to use the manual crank but I’m glad it’s there. As I understand it, it’s only a backup for the hydraulic motor should there be a loss of power. On the other hand; I would like to see a manual cranking system as a backup in case the hydraulic system would fail. To my knowledge there is no back up in that situation. Someone please tell me I’m wrong.

There is no crank for the hydraulics. Use a drill motor. I think the crank you are talking about is used for cranking the front legs up and down in the event you lose the motor or 12 volts.

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Bill I'm afraid you are out of luck if the hydraulics fail. Maybe if you disconnected the lines to the cylinder you might be able to push the slide in but I have no idea how hard it would be to push one of the big slides in.
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I think you guys are correct; if the hydraulic fails I think we’re just plain out of luck.
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Somewhere I thought I read you could move the slides by getting under them and using a cresent wrench (or such) and turn the square rod that goes from one side of the slide to the other. I believe this is used to keep the slides moving easily as the hydraulic is only on one side of each slide, so you can just crank away on it. Of course it probably takes an hour for each slide!!!
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Tom ... unless you slightly loosen the lines on the cylinder or pump manifold, you'll not over come the the cylinder seals by trying to force the slides in with a Cresent wrench on the balance shaft. The slide may go in just a bit, but by no means all the way flush to the side of the fiver. The pump motor or electric to it may fail, but the pumps are really pretty hardy units ... a drill and hex shaft as mentioned above will generally get you going in an emergency. A hydraulic hose failure is another issue.
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I should have been more clear. The drill on the pump is best if no electric or such. I was speaking of a hydraulic failure. I am not sure if a line broke, if you would have to do something with the pump too or not???? Hope I never find out. :-)
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