I may not have made my post as clear as needed. The "gear" I referred to is a long strip along the sides of the slideout and it is exposed while the slide is out, leaving it easy to look to see if the gorooves or teeth on that portion show anything like the gears not quite hitting where they should. On my problem is showed quite clearly that the oposing gear was landing somewhat on the top of one side of each grove and when I carefully removed those burrs and lubed the channel, it helped a lot to make them mesh the way they should.
Not sure how you meant for you drawing about the gear location but I think it will be found on the slide and not the main body of the RV and that is what makes it possible to access from the outside with the slide at least part way out.
I think you will find the motor is at the top outside of the slide with a shaft running down to the bottom gear.
I went as far as locating my motor, so that I saw it but did not want to do the work where I was, so took the easy route, worked on the gears a bit and the problem has remained clear.
I know that my wife and I worked together to cause the problem as she was retracting the slide while I suddenly dropped the leveling jacks. The Lippert jacks on this unit drop it so suddenly that it tended to twist and that is what I feel caused the gears to become misaligned. Getting them aligned and smoothed out as well as lubed seems to have cleared the issue so I have not actually taken things apart further.
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