[Junior Guru]

I've been storing my coach for the past month and I went to check on it today and noticed the compressor going on every 15 min.  It looks like I've experienced my first air leak with what looks like a small water separator or air filter.   See pic.  

This separator is under my passenger bedroom slide in the compartment in front of tire.  

Can this be fixed or do I need to replace it?   Any help or advice is appreciated!

Or, if there is already a thread discussing this I'd appreciate pointing me there.  I couldn't find one.  

Thanks
Jason

   

[lbrachfe]

That separator looks like it's for the slide above or the Bode door. My configuration is so different that it would be hard to compare, but the water separator can be tossed in the garbage when it's in an air line , but yours appears to be in a mono block and wouldn't know which ports do what and what you can and can't block off or around. I have removed a few of these around my coach when they burst and regularly drain my tanks of any water instead of replacing them. no problem over several years. Is your set up original ? Our coaches were built months apart and have a real different air set up

[folivier]

You should be able to find these on Amazon. Just search using the name and part #.

[Junior Guru]

Larry,

Yes I believe this is for the slide above. I do not know if the separator or the arrangement is original.

Unlike the water separator by my aux 120 compressor, this one cannot be manually drained as far as I can tell. There doesn't appear to be any water in it. I'm not even sure why it's there.

[ccjohnson]

Picture looks like a desicant dryer. Might try Grainger or Newell.

[lbrachfe]

They are easy to find online or Harbor Freight has them on the shelf for around $12. If you have a red bottom , push it up and it will evacuate any water or crud from the dryer. I only have the regulator and air lines in that compartment along with an HWH control box.

[folivier]

Can you tell exactly where the air leak is by using soapy water or windex?
Can't tell from the picture but it might be one that has a float that dumps water automatically.  You could try to remove the canister by pulling down on the black tab at the top and rotating it 1/4 turn counter clockwise.  Then clean out the canister with some dawn or simple green, rinse and put some silicone grease on the o-ring before assembling it.  That looks like the one I installed on my 120V compressor.  The grey connector with red ring at the bottom is to connect a tubing to route the discharge water.  I think if you unscrew the black piece above it will release the trapped water.  So try to tighten the black part just above the gray connector.  That could have come loose.

[Richard]

I agree with Larry. Newell was fond of using small separators like that one all around the coach. I replaced about five of them, three in the same location at the rear six pack before I took Larry's advice. When they fail now, I just take it out of the system. I have used several different brands from high end to Harbor Freight. On all of them the polycarbonate bowl eventually cracks.

And as Forest said, you may be able to disassemble and repair. I am laughing at that only because on two of the ones I replaced, I found a previous mechanic had slathered silicone in the crack area. Just saying that to tell you the copious silicone caulk is a temporary fix.

[lbrachfe]

Now I understand the configuration difference. Stupid me forgot your coach is one of the first Valid equipped coaches and Valid made there own air set-ups and Newell bought them from Valid. I have the complete HWH setup which obviously is the same but different.

Richard, it's funny that my coach had that same "mechanic" at one point as I had one of the dryer bowls glued together that I removed when the silicone started to give.lolol. Never found any water or crud in any of them I removed, just cracked pieces of Poly.

[Junior Guru]

Thanks for the suggestions. My coach is an hour away so I'm planning on going back today or tomorrow to figure this out.