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Ben Herman
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Topic: Issue with water system - am I a bonehead?? Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 9:37am |
Hi all - new (to me) 179. Going about process of dewinterizing. Added water to freshwater tank, drained it off to remove residual antifreeze; found that most of the water was ending up in the gray water tank. Same thing happened when I sanitized the tank - added chlorine to freshwater tank, and topped it off. When I went to empty the tank this morning, I found that the freshwater tank was empty and all of the water was in the graywater tank. Checked for the obvious - no faucets were open. Is there a valve somewhere that I do not know about? Or is there something else going on here?
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lostagain
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 9:51am |
What you describe sounds like you hooked up to the municipal water inlet which does not fill your fresh water tank, but will push all the water you want through nearly all of the fresh water system and goes right into the sink and shower drains, to the gray water tank.
The fresh water tank fill port is above the municipal (pressurized) threaded port.
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Ben Herman
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 10:15am |
No, its not that - I filled the tank (not the threaded city water inlet). I've had trailers before so am familiar with the basic operation. This one's a mystery to me. Looked under the bed to see if there are any valves I was not aware of. There's one coming out of the water pump outlet (open). Any other ideas, anyone?
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lostagain
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 11:12am |
Oh, boy that does sound mysterious. Have you done anything to offend the camping goddes?
I wonder if you have some sort of siphon situation with your fresh water tank. Maybe they mis-routed the piping?
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Ben Herman
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 11:46am |
Looks like I found the problem - leak somewhere in the toilet, water running into the shower drain then into the gray water tank. There were a pile of towels in the bathroom so didnt notice it. Now to figure out whats causing the leak....
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GlueGuy
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 1:33pm |
Sounds like the flush valve is stuck in the flush position?
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 2:09pm |
Originally posted by Ben Herman
Looks like I found the problem - leak somewhere in the toilet, water running into the shower drain then into the gray water tank. There were a pile of towels in the bathroom so didnt notice it. Now to figure out whats causing the leak.... |
My best remote guess is broken toilet flush valve.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 2:34pm |
+1 - toilet flush valve is leaking.
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lostagain
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 2:38pm |
Aha!, the mysterious pile of towels. Hope you get the valve fixed without too much hassle. Did it overflow the toilet? If my wife caught me with that batch of towels, we'd be on our way to Costco to get some new ones and she wouldn't even let me wash the old ones in the washer to use as rags. I'll bet your fresh water pump really got a good work out.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 2:40pm |
Is the water pump running? The pressure device in the line from FW tank to toilet is the pump, I guess water could flow from FW tank to toilet, seems odd without water pump pressure.
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Mike Carter
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