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Road spray water uses the electrical conduit to travel
between locations.
In our case, water was entering the top of the electrical
junction boxes that are located on the outer wall of the slide-outs. Both the
port and starboard slide out junction boxes were full of water. When traveling
down highway these two junction boxes are just behind the spinning tires and
get soaked with road spray. These two junction boxes have a cable that exited
up into the wall of the slide out. There was NO caulking at this hole location
and so it easily filled with water. The water then flowed down the conduit to
the next junction box that is located on the frame and then it filled with
water as well. So, we needed to deal with FOUR wet junction boxes. We re-made
all of the electrical connections, installed new box covers, new foam gaskets
and silicon caulked all connections and holes. We glued the new foam gaskets
for each junction box in place so they would not sneak out of position. There is
no way to get the caulking gun nozzle anywhere near the top of the slide out junction
boxes, so you will need some rubber gloves and a hand full of high grade
silicon caulking.
After the repairs we did change out the CFIC outlet and unfortunately
used one with a childproof automatic internal cover. When this safely cover ceases
up it is almost impossible to get anything plugged in to the outlet. It isn't good then child proof becomes dear wife proof.
Best of luck.
Kamper Dave
Edited by: Kamper Dave