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Air Valve
These are in the 4th Bay Drivers side. One of them continues to need to be reset by pushing in the red button. What is causing this?
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water bay? left side valve in picture. right side of this valve in background is crimped air line? Check for skinned wire against surfaces.. Once a valve control coil gets tripped so many times it gets weak (elect side) and takes less and less to trip it. Just looking at your picture that is all I got from afar.
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Thanks Robert
Will look a little closer and follow the wiring. Yes, the pic is sideways and the left is actually the top valve and that is the one tripping
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Chuck, those valves are for the main dump valve and the gray water by-pass. If you have to keep resetting them as Bob says make sure the wires to them are not chafed or creating a short, but my guess is the coil operating them is failing or has failed and a new valve is likely required.
I carry a spare and if my memory is correct the manufacturer’s name is embossed on the valve body and using that I was able to get new ones thanks to the internet. BTW, the internet is the tool I use more than any other for my bus.
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They look like Versa Valves. You can buy rebuild kits but they basically contains O rings. If the coil is bad you might find some on eBay. Swap the coil with another valve and give it a test.
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Just a guess, but could the mechanical portion of the dump/bypass valve be binding putting more stress on the solenoid?
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All the solenoid on the valve does is open the air flow. It is the air pressure doing the work so the solenoid should never see any change in operating force.
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Having checked all of the possible items it does appear that the dump/bypass was in a bind and that now seems to have eliminated the problem.
Thanks everyone
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Chuck: What did you do to unbind it?
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Im kind of confused about that. Its like thinking a circuit breaker is popping because a light bulb is burned out. Then again, they write books about things ive never heard of.
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After a reset I then checked the dump,water fill, etc panel and found that the dump button was stuck in the open position(you can imagine how I found out,Lol)
Anyhow after releasing the button and switch it reset and has now stayed that way working great.
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