building a gennerator slide / joey bed

[crown]

  looking for pictures and plans to build a slide for gen set. over on fred hobes site he has some imfo
  but no pics thanks i also want to make a joey bed type slide for the bays  pictures to me are worth
  a thousand words thanks again john

[Len Silva]

I don't have any pictures to share but I might offer a suggestion.  A full extension generator slide will take two sets of rollers and a pretty beefy assembly.

I built a simple rig using iron casters running in a piece of channel iron.  The outer support was a flip-down boat trailer wheel/jack assembly.  It worked great and I didn't have to worry about the cantilevered weight.

Len

[FloridaCliff]

Crown,

Theres some pictures in a previous topic when I built my full extension generator slide.

http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=12305.0

Cliff

[gus]

There is no need for rollers, just make a sled of 1" steel tubing riding inside channel guides with holes in both for bolts. My theory on roller bearings/bushings is that they will wear from vibration.

Since there is seldom a need to pull most out I see no need for rollers and built mine as above. After three years it is yet to be pulled out.

Be sure to make your fuel lines and wiring with long enough service loops to be pulled out and operated for any necessary testing.

Make sure the fuel loop is lower than the fuel line, don't ask me how I know this!!

[Lin]

When I bought mine, it was pointed out that the generator was on a slide out.  I did not look closely at it.  When I finally did, I saw that there were no bearings; just angles sitting on angles.  There is no way I can pull it out without a come-along or something like that.  Maybe I could pry it up and put some pieces of steel rod between the angles to make it easier.  I can however, remove a plywood partition and sit in the bay to work from one side of it anyway. In my former bus, I did build a slide out using industrial draw-type slides.  I was pretty proud of it, but that was only a 4kw Onan which was a lot lighter than my 7.5kw Kohler which is probably lighter than some of the diesels used.  I will add, as Gus mentioned, that I never did need to slide either of them out, but I think that every day brings that day closer.

[gus]

Fortunately my liquid cooled Honda EV6010 weighs less than 300 lb so moving it is not a big problem.

This is one fine generator.