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Originally Posted by Tytlfamily

I've experienced the same thing the last few days. My wife and I went crazy checking for things banging around in cabinets, bays.....and the sound is the exact same, right behind my head high, that is where our living room slide is also. I started to think it was something on the roll out awning/topper that covers the slide out.
Still not quite sure where I should look for the cable bulb seal, to see if I lost it. Where would it drop to if it came loose? We have had the coach 6 months, and this just started while driving it home from CW last week. The service performed had nothing to do with the slide though?

On the exterior wall of the coach there is a two part seal. The first part is the wipe which rides against the wall of the slide. The wipe also has a channel with a couple of grooves. The cable for the motor sits inside the channel and the bulb seal slides on the grooves to cover the channel and motor cable and serve as a seal and slide stop as well.

If you look at the attached photo you can see the wipe with the channel and the motor cable inside the channel and then the bulb seal installed so that it covers the wires.



With me the bulb seal was missing and the slide motor cable was not being held within the channel and was just flopping around. Eventually it came loose from the motor and my slide jammed while partially extended. I had to get a mobile tech from Charleston, SC to come to the campground and that was when he discovered the missing bulb seal.

In this case/photo I lowered the top of the seal slightly so I could send a picture of what I needed to Thor.

If the seal was installed it is unlikely it came off and if it did it would hopefully lying on the floor near the slide side wall and not tangled up under the slide.