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jato
Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Kewadin, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 3255 |
Topic: winterizing Posted: 12 Sep 2016 at 7:59pm |
Tom, Torch Lake is just across the street from us, I pray we never take it for granted. although I am sure there are times we have. Also, because we are away from towns and bigger cities, the sky at night is very dark, always get to see the Milky Way, and on many occasions have been treated to the Northern Lights. It is a very special place for us. We especially become more thankful after coming home from third world countries or areas of the world where the things we take for granted, like fresh water, food, gas stations,and our freedom, are nearly non-existent.
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God's pod
'11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
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tomfrech
Newbie Joined: 12 Jul 2016 Location: IL - Illinois Online Status: Offline Posts: 9 |
Posted: 12 Sep 2016 at 10:10am |
Thanks for the info. I am going to try air. We spent many summers near Torch Lake. We had a cottage in Bay View.
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jato
Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Kewadin, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 3255 |
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 at 4:08pm |
Never did put antifreeze in the FW tank, but had the 'residue' in the lines from when we winterized the first time. Took us more than a few times using different concoctions to rid the cold water supply line of the antifreeze taste and odor.
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God's pod
'11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
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StephenH
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Posted: 06 Sep 2016 at 9:07am |
Baking soda can help rid the tank and lines of residual taste, both of RV antifreeze and of chlorine. I did that after my initial goof of putting antifreeze in the fresh water tank, not realizing that I had a winterization valve and line for that purpose.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 06 Sep 2016 at 6:10am |
You should have never put any antifreeze in the tank. No need foe it there.
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"Ray & Connie"
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jato
Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Kewadin, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 3255 |
Posted: 05 Sep 2016 at 12:34pm |
My 2 cents. Did the antifreeze the first year in 2011. Took a lot of time to rid tank, lines of that nasty taste as we use our FW for drinking. Since then we have used compressed air, takes about 2 - 3 minutes to do the whole thing. No problems to date. Still will use about 1 pint of the pink stuff to put into the 3 traps (2 sinks, and 1 shower).
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God's pod
'11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
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Posted: 04 Sep 2016 at 7:37am |
I had the same thing happen a couple of years ago and (at the time) chalked the breakage up to normal wear and tear. I do both - blow out the lines and put in the pink stuff. However, I do not hold the flush valve open when using the air so, it is possible that the anti-freeze was diluted some. We had an especially cold winter that year, also. I've taken to running the toilet "extra" long with the pink. Agree that the fix is stupid simple, once the part is in hand. 30 mins. tops. |
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ron_whitt
Senior Member Joined: 08 Sep 2011 Location: Chesterville On Online Status: Offline Posts: 261 |
Posted: 04 Sep 2016 at 7:03am |
Tom, north of 49 here. I do both air first then pink rv anti-freeze. It doesn't take a lot of time. When it gets down to -40c for a week at a time. That's why I do both. For the few extra minutes it takes to do both, I figure its worth it.
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Ron & Shirley
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 04 Sep 2016 at 6:43am |
I couldn't agree more. I no longer get into the discussion of hich method is best to use anymore.
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"Ray & Connie"
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Tars Tarkas
Senior Member Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Location: Near Nashville Online Status: Offline Posts: 1447 |
Posted: 03 Sep 2016 at 10:04pm |
My toilet valve froze last winter. I didn't discover it for a while. There was just a tiny crack in the valve that sprayed a fine mist on out the back, which eventually trickled down into the shower basis.
I do the antifreeze but apparently I wasn't diligent enough. This the kind of thing that is much more likely to happen if you blow out the lines, in my opinion, anyway. The repair to the toilet was surprisingly easy -- after removing the toilet, and only cost about $25 for a part on Amazon. Still, $3 worth of pink stuff would have saved a lot of effort. TT |
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