I watched a YouTube demonstration of the reverse/peel method. It looked pretty slick! However, if I could get mine to budge far enough to get them to peek out a rear track window (which you need to do for the peel method), I think I could get them the rest of the way from there in a traditional manner using a vice grip.
I'll definitely try the dishsoap for reinstalling, but I doubt it would penetate enough to help me with the removal. I will say Snowhawk's suggestion about a can of coke intrigues me a bit...
Advice for stuck slides?
[QUOTE=Skip28;18465] I will say Snowhawk's suggestion about a can of coke intrigues me a bit...[/QUOTE]
I was given that ideal from one of our vendors because we run into aluminum tubes seized into a steel 4" riser pipe from water, salt and other liquids, maybe it would dissolve the debris holding the slides so that you can use the reverse method.
I was given that ideal from one of our vendors because we run into aluminum tubes seized into a steel 4" riser pipe from water, salt and other liquids, maybe it would dissolve the debris holding the slides so that you can use the reverse method.
Not sure how effective this would be, but I might also suggest getting some high pressure compressed air along in there and see if you can blast any grit or accumulated detritus from between the rails and the slides.
Removing the suspension assembly is not as difficult as it sounds- four throughbolts and some smashed fingers and a passel of cussin'.... out she comes. Helps to have an assistant for sure, but it can be done single-personedly.
Removing the suspension assembly is not as difficult as it sounds- four throughbolts and some smashed fingers and a passel of cussin'.... out she comes. Helps to have an assistant for sure, but it can be done single-personedly.
Done! And just in time for the piles of new snow we got down in SE WI! (Over the past 2-3 days, 8-12" in my New Berlin driveway.) None the less, what a major PITA!!
I ended up having to carve "shoulders" into the side of the slides with a utility knife to make a surface large enough to pound them off using a small sledge and a piece of rebar. Every inch was a battle, and was accompanied by no small amount of salty sailor talk! Had to keep re-carving, and had flakes of hyfax everywhere. As I was afraid of, I did end up putting a few small burrs on the rails, but I had no trouble smoothing these out with a very small file. The old slides were very dirty/gritty inside, so I'm sure that was a big part of the problm. Got everything wiped clean, and the new ones went on quite nicely. Now I can only hope I re-tensioned and aligned the track properly!
Thanks again for all the advice ... I enjoyed chatting with y'all.
I ended up having to carve "shoulders" into the side of the slides with a utility knife to make a surface large enough to pound them off using a small sledge and a piece of rebar. Every inch was a battle, and was accompanied by no small amount of salty sailor talk! Had to keep re-carving, and had flakes of hyfax everywhere. As I was afraid of, I did end up putting a few small burrs on the rails, but I had no trouble smoothing these out with a very small file. The old slides were very dirty/gritty inside, so I'm sure that was a big part of the problm. Got everything wiped clean, and the new ones went on quite nicely. Now I can only hope I re-tensioned and aligned the track properly!
Thanks again for all the advice ... I enjoyed chatting with y'all.
[QUOTE=Keemez;18483]Not sure how effective this would be, but I might also suggest getting some high pressure compressed air along in there and see if you can blast any grit or accumulated detritus from between the rails and the slides.
Removing the suspension assembly is not as difficult as it sounds- four throughbolts and some smashed fingers and a passel of cussin'.... out she comes. Helps to have an assistant for sure, but it can be done single-personedly.[/QUOTE]
Getting it out is the easy part, putting it back in is when the fun starts
Removing the suspension assembly is not as difficult as it sounds- four throughbolts and some smashed fingers and a passel of cussin'.... out she comes. Helps to have an assistant for sure, but it can be done single-personedly.[/QUOTE]
Getting it out is the easy part, putting it back in is when the fun starts
[QUOTE=Skip28;18493]I think I'll be back in that camp now! Though I was home alone, I was half expecting the cops to show up responding to a domestic disturbance call![/QUOTE]
I went thru all of the pain you went thru. Smashed fingers, cursing, slides breaking apart in the vise grips as I tried to pull them out, hammering, putting gouges in the slides, half a can of WD-40 being sprayed...
I had that experience twice and then I said never again.
:sledder:
I went thru all of the pain you went thru. Smashed fingers, cursing, slides breaking apart in the vise grips as I tried to pull them out, hammering, putting gouges in the slides, half a can of WD-40 being sprayed...
I had that experience twice and then I said never again.
:sledder: