Repair level control lever

[Adam Raeburn]

I just spent the last couple of days reading on here and found a lot of info and went out on a lot of off topic trips. But I can not find out if I can
fix or repair one of the control arms. The passenger side control will not stop venting the air out. This of course causes the bag to deflate and over
night the drivers side will also deflate. I do have the shut offs and did drive home with the bags held at "ride height" but I don't see how those of
you that do this on a regular basis enjoy driving at all. On the back country roads I had to drive on it made the motorhome feel like a top heavy
bread truck.
Anyway already off topic, can I repair the vent on the height control arm or is the only fix replacement?
And Yes I took the nut off the end and made sure the little schrader valve was working. Whatever pushes on that is not releasing. I did not take it
off the Motorhome to look in. We were replacing the air bag in campground and did not want to take too much apart.

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Adam Raeburn
Rothesay, NB
1976 Austin Mini
1977 GMC Palm Beach
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Once you replace everything that is attached to something else. It will all be fixed.

 

[Ken B]

Probably the easiest thing is to just get a new one if you are sure tht the valve itself and not the fittings are leaking.

We had one GMCer that was rebuilding them but the last time I talked to him he was no longer doing it. Jim K. at Applied GMC has new ones and they
were about the same price as the rebuilt ones.

http://appliedgmc.com/prod.itml/icOid/685

http://appliedgmc.com/prod.itml/icOid/1288

I played around with my 40 year old ones and finally just got new ones. It was nice to get my automatic leveling working again. All of my leaks were
in the fittings and not the valves.
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Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana

 

[Adam Raeburn]

it is for sure leaking out the exhaust port of the valve. we did a bubble test after installing the new bag.
next question is can I just block that off and still have the system work? or is that the only way to lower the bag on that side?
I guess I will just order a set and be done with it.
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Adam Raeburn
Rothesay, NB
1976 Austin Mini
1977 GMC Palm Beach
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Once you replace everything that is attached to something else. It will all be fixed.

 

[Ken B]

The simple answer is NO. That is the one of the ways the bag lowers.
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Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana