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Rebuilding a skinner valve?
Has anyone rebuilt a Skinner solenoid valve? Prevost wants over $200 for one of these. There are others available for far less, but I don’t want to mess with adapting the hard-plumbed lines to fit the new and improved valves. I see a lot of rebuild kits available for other solenoid valves, so I may just take one apart and try to replace the guts. Any experience out there?
1984 96" with 8V92TA
(remodeled Liberty Coach)
Greenwood, MO -
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Chad, solenoid valves are plentiful and the internet is your friend.
That is a common configuration and without more detail I would start looking at ASCO Valves to see what they have. The critical things are voltage and whether it is AC or DC. Look to determine if the valve is continuous duty, high temp, and what media it is controlling, such as air, oil, fuel, etc.
Some valves are expensive, and I think ASCO is one of the expensive ones, but by searching I have found direct replacement alternatives for very little cost.
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Thanks, Jon. I’m familiar with the basics, but my searches were yielding valves with very different mounting configurations. I dove down the Google rabbit hole and I think I found a drop-in replacement in the Parker 7000 Series. It looks like my current valves are Skinner 3000 Series, and there are rebuild kits, although nobody seems to stock them. Unless I come across some references for the O-ring sizes to source separately, I’ll probably just change to new valves altogether.
By the way, this is what happens when you spend days chasing a faulty Fast Idle. And it’s a real bear troubleshooting by yourself when you need to check voltages at the back while throwing switches in the front, and you start to think about replacing parts that might be working just fine. Luckily, I do all this in the name of self-education. 🙂
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I think those valves have an aluminum body and it corrodes easily so rebuilding is sometimes false economy. If the body is brass rebuilding is not out of the question but then it becomes an issue of how valuable your time is.
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