Creeping Slides

[dieselguy]

Seahunter ... actuators and rams are one in the same.

How many slides do you have? Did they replace all rams or just one?

All rams are basically plumbed together ... any one bypassing internally can cause any slide to extend.

Did you try just bumping the slides back out after you pulled them in as I mentioned earlier? This isn't a fix, but will tell you if you have a seal bypassing.

If you wait several seconds before you let up on the retract button after the slides are in, you build up over 1200# of pressure held on the retract side of the cylinders. There's really no need to continue to hold the switch for several seconds once the slides close.

[seahunter]

quote:Originally posted by dieselguy

Seahunter ... actuators and rams are one in the same.

How many slides do you have? Did they replace all rams or just one?

All rams are basically plumbed together ... any one bypassing internally can cause any slide to extend.

Did you try just bumping the slides back out after you pulled them in as I mentioned earlier? This isn't a fix, but will tell you if you have a seal bypassing.

If you wait several seconds before you let up on the retract button after the slides are in, you build up over 1200# of pressure held on the retract side of the cylinders. There's really no need to continue to hold the switch for several seconds once the slides close.

Thanks Dieselguy. I will check to see if they did them all. I have five slides - two electric and three hydraulic. I can't put them in right now as we had to take it out this weekend. I did try backing it off Thursday night though before we left on Friday, and they had creeped out by Friday morning. Thanks very much for the information. I will try backing off the switch again when I close them up on Monday.