[Richard]

You dudes give me way too much credit. 

The situation was that the new style Ridewell valves consumed air at an astonishing rate due to their sensitivity. They were constantly discharging and subsequently recharging with every little bump. 

I told Rob at Dayton Air, and he grabbed the ball and ran. The valve characteristics he had made for us is a low response time, but very high sensitivity to position valve. What that means is the valve is very repeatable on position but doesn’t constantly use air because of the low response time. Some may not like the time it takes the coach to level but that is the compromise. 

It doesn’t hurt that the valve is all metal. The Ridewell plastic valves were prone to cracking. I have had rear KOTR valves in service for 10 years and over a 100k miles on this coach without a hiccup or adjustment. 

And their right and left designations are for which way the arm points on the valve, which happens to be BACKWARDs from how they mount on the Newell. 

So Rob deserves the accolades. Glad to hear he is still there.