Leaking Bedroom Slide Cylinder on 2002 Adventurer 32

[lmdazevedo]

Our bedroom slide cylinder is leaking. We need a replacement but cannot find one for 2002 Adventirer 32 on workhorse chasis. I believe they were manufactured by HWH. Any suggestions?
Lionel & Marianne
Crawfordville, Fl

 

[Morich]

Have you checked for repair of the cylinders, instead of replace. It is mormal for construction/farm equipment to get bad seals from dirt and grit. Much cheaper to repair in most cases and this looks like a place to check, iof not done that yet?

I find if I wander in at a slow time and just let them lead me, I can save lots of money!
Not sure this will work but what I would do, especially if the part is already off the slide top verify it is the problem!
Lots more further North in big city but this would be a start?

 

[lmdazevedo]

Thank you for the suggestion. We will definitely check them out.

 

[RayIN]

Just last week I read a thread by a man who replaced his slide room cylinders. It might have been on irv2.com, parent site for winnie owners.
Meanwhile, this might be helpful: https://www.hwhcorp.com/ml23521.pdf

 

[lmdazevedo]

Just last week I read a thread by a man who replaced his slide room cylinders. It might have been on irv2.com, parent site for winnie owners.
Meanwhile, this might be helpful: https://www.hwhcorp.com/ml23521.pdf

Thank you for that info. I will share it with our mechanic. Morich had suggested repair which if that could be done would probably be the best route to go. Waiting to hear back from them. Hwh said they can build a replacement waiting to see what that cost would be. I also think it may be possible to replace with a lippert cylinder. Once we find a resolution I’ll post here. Thank you for your help.

 

[Morich]

I will be interested in what you find as my idea is not based on what we might find in HWH. What I find in industry is that there are not too many things that are built for one specific use if it is something as straightforward as a hydraulic cylinder! If you need a part that has to meet certain specs, one of the ways to cut the cost of building the first prototype is to look for parts that are already made!
I would be really surprised if HWH cylinders are not something that is made by some place that sells to a dozen different industries for everything from moving slides to picking corn!
The difference in hydraulic cylinders on a Winnebago and a backhoe are just a difference in specs for size, power and how it's bolted on!
But in the case of a leak, it is far more likely to be just a simple seal and not require a full blown cylinder replacement.
The problem with many repairs and the shops we go to for that work is there is little money to be made on a $20 repair part compared to the money made on $1000 replacement!

 

[lmdazevedo]

Thank you Morich. I will let you know what the end result is. Appreciate you help.

 

[Morich]

Just playing the game today and got into looking for info on the HWH slide cylinders. In fact, I found too much info to cut, copy and post!
Do you have some form of AI on your computer machines?
I have copilot for some reason and find it can tell me lots of things that I don't know how to ask???
So a search for HWH cylinder parts, came back with lots of info that might be a start on getting ideas of what to ask at a shop!
This may be a link to check for more if the "name brand and model may come into play:

It led me to way too much to try top pass along but then I still come back around to whether we need an HWH brand item if it is something simple like a rubber washer or seal??
Working around backhoes tells me that the dirt around them or jacks can get on the shaft and chew up the rubber parts as they slide in and out.
Maybe they are kind of like faucet washers and generic of the right size is all that is needed to be replaced? No doubt it takes special tools and brain to do the job but the seal may be the cheap part??
Wish you luck!

 

[Winn2021]

Check out my post HWH hydraulic room slide 2004. 2 very good links. Your set up will obviously be different. I understand some of these can't be rebuilt and the the reinstall can be a little confusing, but well worth the effort.

 

[Zoohelp]

Our bedroom slide cylinder is leaking. We need a replacement but cannot find one for 2002 Adventirer 32 on workhorse chasis. I believe they were manufactured by HWH. Any suggestions?
Lionel & Marianne
Crawfordville, Fl

I recently had my 12ft slideout with hwh cylinder blow out a seal and leak badly. The local hydraulic shop was able to repair it in about 2 weeks at a fraction of the cost to buy a replacement

 

[lmdazevedo]

I appreciate the suggestions. Repair definitely seems to be the way to go.

I am now hearing that it is probably a “closed” cylinder and may not be repairable. This is a photo of the part # from the cylinder. Once we can determine a resolution I will post it here.

 

[Zoohelp]

That model number can be repaired by a hydraulic shop as long as the shaft isn't heavily scratched

 

[lmdazevedo]

That is really good news. Our mechanic will be talking to a shop that can repair as long as it is not the “closed?” Type. Fingers crossed.

 

[Zoohelp]

Hopefully they're versed with "crimped" cylinders. Keep us posted

 

[lmdazevedo]

Thank you Zoohelp. Will do.

 

[Morich]

The thing about hydraulic cylinders is how common they are if we are around the right places. So if somebody wants to build something like a slide, it is not logical to start from scratch to design a very specific item, if there are already dozens of paces where that part is already used.
What I see on slides is a pretty simple item that pushes or pulls. That is much the same on everything from farm tractors to factory machines, just each place may need bigger/stronger, etc. but most of them just push and pull, so lots of people likely use the same cylinder, even if it has a different brand on the side.
Like batteries, perhaps? A hundred different brands and different cases on the outside but only a handful of factories that make batteries!
Hope it is as simple as getting tot he right folks who look at it and know what to do to replace a $2 item!

 

[Winn2021]

Most of the time, pull the hydraulic cylinder and take to a local shop. If rebuildable, turnaround in 48 hours.

 

[lmdazevedo]

Finally after all this time we got the cylinder repaired. Our mechanic put it back in and it immediately blew out hydraulic fluid worse than before. The shop that repaired it said they have never seen that before. Seems no one has a solution. Anyone have any thoughts of what to do from here, other than scrap the rig?

 

[lmdazevedo]

Since my post yesterday the consensus is a new cylinder from HWH will solve the problem. Fingers crossed.

 

[Morich]

So you took an item to be repaired and it did not get done? Then they say they have never seen that happen? Most shops of any sort have failures. But they also know what to do to get the correct result!
Did they still keep the money?
Sounds like a good racket to be in if it works that way!