David went out in the morning to inspect under the Wanderer and consulted with the slide out mechanism owner’s manual. But it was not clear what the issue was as the hydraulics were working correctly. He could New Horizons but got the service centers voice mail. Next, he called the front desk at the RV park and they informed him that there was a Mobile RV repair mechanic working at a site nearby. So he walked around until he spotted the mechanic, Neal from Road Ready Repair, and had a talk with him. After he finished work on the rig he was at, he stopped by our site and diagnosed the issue in 10 minutes. Seems a shear pin on the shaft that transfers torque to the back-end gear drive from the front-end gear drive had broken at the front gear drive. The hardest one to get to due to water lines and other stuff in the way. Seems they had a grade A ¼ inch bolt in the drive shaft that had broken off. He was headed to the parts shop to get a new water pump for the other rig he was working on so he would be back in a few minutes with a new bolt. David asked him to get a couple of spares in case this happened in the future now that he learned how the mechanism worked. Sure enough, Neal came back with the new bolt and had it fixed in 30 minutes. Neal was a real nice guy and he and David talked longer than it took him to complete the work.
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