An old friend at work always had a saying "come clean". My issues with my BR slide have been healed. It was not an issue of a motor, lack of lubrication, or any maintenance issue, but more of my own ignorance
. I only offer the following as a warning to those who may follow me.
As I had mentioned earlier in this thread, I was replacing a cracked wheel on my RW on the BR slide side. I had brought in all of the slides on the RW. In the process I used the level up system to raise the coach enough to raise the wheel off the ground. I must also note that I was not on the most level ground to start with. During the process of bringing the side up the axle dropped which from reading other threads on the forum was what I expected. I changed the wheel out, re-leveled the coach using the auto level and thought everything was OK until I tried to bring the slide out.
To make a long story short I had to move the RW to another portion of the property. During the move I heard the axle re-position itself to its normal (pre-jack up) position. Upon setting the RW up on the new site the slide was fully functional. We went on a short camping trip (first one with the camper) this past weekend and encountered no problems with the slide (it was brought in and out six times). Did encounter one problem with the gas water heater not staying lit but remember a thread on here about running the burners on the stove which cleared that problem up.
My conclusion was that I introduced some temporary flexing in the frame that corrected itself when I moved the RV. In the future I think I will just auto level the unit and then use a bottle jack
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