We were making pretty good progress this morning, getting ready to leave Indy Lakes. I had taken the garbage up to the dumpster; put the mail in the mailbox; traded the gate opener to the office manager for my $20 deposit back; and loaded the lavender plant and the doorstep into the Toad. We had put all the pictures, smoke detector. calendar, etc. away on the bed. We pulled in the slide on the driver's side with no problem, but when we went to pull in the one on the passenger side -- nothing! It raised up, but then wouldn't come in. Now, we can travel with the bedroom slide cattywampus and out a bit in the back, but not with the living room slide all the way out!
Stuart's Service in Elkhart where we have an appointment on Monday is not open on Fridays, so we could not even call them for advice. We called Camper World who gave up the name of a mobile RV tech, who didn't answer the phone. Forry went up to the office to tell them we would be staying another day. They did NOT recommend the mobile tech we had called, saying that people here had many complaints about him. But they did recommend we call a local RV dealer and ask for Jack. While the dealer did not do off-site work, Jack did after hours.
Sure enough about 4:45, there was a knock on the door. Jack had a few ideas about what we might be able to do to get the slide to go back in --
Finally he and Forry worked there way around to the back where Forry had seen quite a bit of oil leaking from the area of the bedroom slide near the radiator --
Jack ended up isolating and crimping off the leaky hose long enough for us to get the slide to go back in. It looks like all of these hydraulic line hoses are bad and will need to be replaced when we get to Elkhart!
It was a $100 service call (plus a $20 tip), but worth every penny! We'll try again to head north in the morning...
