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Front air bags on passenger side

After a 300m drive from Wyoming to campground with several starts and stops in between I pulled into the campground and left the motor running. When I came back to move the camper to the site I noticed the door sticking and when I tried to move heard the front right tire rubbing. Immediately stoped and saw that both front airbags on passenger side were down. Called Rudy Leggit because he is the only guru I had the # for. We were able to manually raise the airbags using the arrow on the hwh panel to get me to the campsite.  Rudy thought it may be a leaking travel valve on the 6 pack. What do you guys think is the problem.  Can I drive it home safely? If not what are the steps you recommend to be able to get home safety.  What else should I try to narrow down the problem.

Siting in the site now for 30 minutes and air bags are still holding.  Started and got air pressure to 100psi and it went into travel mode but level system was dinging

Probably not something I can do myself so I am putting in a call to a mechanic.

(Haven't had any problems After traveling over 3000m, but tail light fell in but I was able to retrieve without damage)

Thanks for your help in advance.

Re: Front air bags on passenger side

Reply #1 –
The front six pack manifold has two Travel solenoids, one for left and one for right. You can drive it safely by manually leveling it like you have already done and then remove the Travel fuse from the HWH box. When you do that, it will stay at that level indefinitely. Just have to locate the HWH box and pull the proper fuse. Here's a photo of my box cover on our 95. On the back of that cover is a drawing showing all of the fuses. Yours is likely similar.
jor

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Reply #2 –
Just another point.  I drove for probably 150m my last run of the day. After I stopped to check in that is when I am assuming the air leaked out of the air bags??? Or do you think it was leaking the whole time while driving?  I did notice a little trouble getting from 70psi to 90psi when starting after it sat. Seemed like I had to high idle to get it to above the 90 psi to get the level system to go off.  Ever since I've owned it is an adventure to see how much air has leaked off between stops. Sometimes overnight it will be at 0 sometimes at 70psi, sometimes at 30.

Re: Front air bags on passenger side

Reply #3 –
Any other suggestions?

I'd love to be able to hit the ground running in the morning when the mechanic gets here.

Thanks again

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Reply #4 –
Chasing air leaks is not a precise science.  It is not easy to do from a computer hundreds of miles away.  You have to think about your symptoms, and study your air system diagram, and try to figure out WHY the air is escaping, and from WHERE.

Paying a mechanic, who probably has very little practical knowledge of the HWH air leveling system, to trouble shoot your system will quickly get expensive.  I hope you luck out and get a good (honest) technician who can actually help you.

Jor has already given you a way (above) to continue your travels until you get to home base, where you can work on the problem in comfort.

The link below may be of assistance to the technician who tries to figure out the system:

HWH Travel Mode
 

Re: Front air bags on passenger side

Reply #5 –
Talked to Rudy this morning. Coach went into travel mode and everything seems level. I'm going to try to limp home. Thanks for all the help.