Cameo Slides - Gear skipping

[RangerReady]

I have a 2008 Carriage Cameo F35KS3. On the main (non-kitchen) slide the motor starts to skip once a bit of resistance comes into play. It happens on both extend and retract. The motor shaft gear doesn't come into close enough contact with the bigger gear, and you can see it skipping. The skipping CAN be overcome with one or more persons pushing or pulling the slide while someone operates the switch but this is annoying.

I got under there to see if I can adjust the spacing between the drive shaft gear and the other gear, but there doesn't seem to be a way to adjust it to get close to each other.

Is there an adjustment I didn't see or is there some other way to resolve this? It's really a pain to deal with.

Has anyone seen this before, or know what I can do to fix this? I'm not even sure how it happened in the first place.

The drive shaft gear doesn't seem to be worn anymore than it should be, its just that the gears don't mesh enough.

Here are 4 images of the gears: https://imgur.com/a/PC2sqbt

I read through the FAQ of this forum and it doesn't say anything about cross-posting so I'm going to post this in another area, too. Please let me know if that's not OK.

[Dave The AV Guy]

Welcome to the world of Carriage slide motor problems. We have 2007 Carri-Lite 37 foot with the same motor setup. In past years I've had several issues with the gear, the motor housing and the spacing but got them worked out with the help of a machinist friend. I carry a couple of spare motors and gears with me all the time, but thankfully have not had to swap one out while on a trip since 2016. Your issue may be caused by excessive wear in the cast housing on the end of the motor where the main shaft is. Over time that round hole becomes oval shaped, allowing some play that lets the gear skit. I also found that some of the gears wear quickly if they are not nicely engaged. One other issue I had was the threaded mounts on that cast metal end breaking off. Whichever problem(s) you have, you don't need to spend a fortune on a new motor assembly, which was over $500.00 when I looked last. I have a bunch of photos of what I have done to mine. Of the four slides, I have had to re-work three of them, but they now work reliably. Send me an email at davew@skynet.ca and I'll send you more info of what I did.