Working on the Slides

Friday - No traveling today! Feels rather nice to just be stationary again in the RV. This is the hydraulic valve assembly for the leveling jacks and the room slides. The upper row of four valves are for the leveling jacks and bottom two rows of five are for the room slides. The room slides have two valves as they move in and out with hydraulic pressure. The left hand row are to move the rooms out and the right hand row are to move the rooms in. The leveling jacks only use hydraulic pressure to extend the jacks. To retract the jacks, the valves are simply opened and springs are used to retract the jacks.

The valves are not labeled (big surprise) so it was just trial and error to identify the valves. The pair nearest pair is for the generator slide. The next one is for the kitchen slide. The next is the passenger side bedroom slide. The next is the drivers side bedroom slide. The furthest one in is for the living room slide. 

I needed to extend the kitchen slide and the drivers side bedroom slide. To extend those two, I opened up the valve manualy with a 1/4" socket a couple of turns. I then used the bedroom slide switch to actuate the hydraulic pump. I could've also use the generator slide switch on the dashboard. I still need to figure out why those two rooms have problems...