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Plumbing leak under vanity
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Yes I’m aware of that Mark.
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bv
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If you put a small hose clamp on the flair it ice maker fitting it helps it not to crack…..also on flair it, remember the seal is the fitting and the nut just holds it together so over tightening is not your friend
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No manifold on our Liberty. I’ve seen them on other coaches, I think its a good idea. Its nice to be able to isolate a line at the source, but does it turn off the cold water to both sinks or just one? I think I could get a headache trying to figure out where to put the shut off valves and how to plumb the rest.
I like Jeff’s idea of the small hose clamp around the ice maker branch on the tee. That will strengthen things.
Good suggestion about not over tightening the nuts on the Flair-It fittings.
Also … I have yet to find the accumulator that some of you think I have. But I suspect there are a few panels I haven’t removed yet. Once I find it, I’ll let everyone know.
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We are plumbed to every station hot and cold with a shutoff at the manifold . You couldn’t plumb shutoffs now Dick, Liberty already laid it out a different way.
A accumulator tank is a little smaller than a football, I doubt it’s behind a panel.
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bv
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I think the Liberty installed accumulator tanks are perhaps 2 gallons? I’m guessing based on the ones I had and have seen. But the key is a manifold with home runs to shut off a fixture, and an accumulator plumbed to the inlet side of the manifold.
Playing a smart ass here, on my coach, and I bet all others I bet the water leak will stop quicker (by immediately turning off the pump and doing something like opening a faucet or flushing a toilet) than running outside to shut a valve. Get dressed, put on shoes, run down the stairs, around the side of the coach to get to the shut off valve, realize you forgot to unlock bay doors, run back to coach and hit the unlock button, run back to the bay, realize you forgot glasses, run back to get them, realize they were not where you thought they were, find them, run down the stairs, around the side of the coach, try to figure out which valve to shut.
Of course if you don’t use the coach water pump, but are relying on city water you add another element of frustration to getting the water shut off.
From now on I will just use the bathrooms, showers, and laundry at the campground and just leave my water turned off.
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Jeez A1 your off the rails. I’m talking about a working situation where you can isolate a station.
Not a race around the bus in the middle of the night.
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bv
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Let me get this straight… If you’re fast asleep counting Elegant Ladies in your Liberty and all of a sudden your better half tells you the floor is wet with running water. So you leap out of bed in your underwear, find a flashlight and run outside to turn off the water. Then you go back inside try to find the source of the leak. You find the cabinet under your galley sink is soaked with water. Now you get your screw driver and remove the panel under the sink and find a broken fitting on the supply side of the plastic shut off valve. You are now screwed until tomorrow and your better half is furious about no toilet, no sink water and no shower. Tomorrow will really be fun.
Now if you have the same problem with a Marathon and have identified the leaking pipe under the sink, you merely go outside to the plumbing bay to the plumbing manifold and turn off the galley sink, either hot or cold as needed. You’re better half is mildly inconvenienced, but all other plumbing fixtures are working fine.
Does that pretty much sum it up?
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If my better half wakes me up in the middle of night and says there is water on the floor and the carpet is wet (again) …
I’ll simply walk to the electrical panel, turn off the water pump, and deal with it in the morning.
And NO … as she often suggests … I won’t call Jeff right away in the morning because I’m to the point where I can probably deal with it myself.
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Next rally we will have a water shutting off contest.
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