Corey
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You do not tap those kind it’s all internal
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Tom,
Ye, I already thought about adding some labels to his hookups so he doesnt do it again 🙂
He did have his dumps closed, so that wasn’t helping. However from what I have heard, that’s kind of part of the process. Close dumps, back fill black tank part way, then open valve while continueing to flush for a while. Some others mentioned that this seems to be a common mistake and can get away from those that are not paying attention.
Since I know my mind wanders quickly (oh look, pretty shiny thing… wait, what was I doing?), I could probably find myself with this same problem. That is one reason I see for me, having a single tank that I dont need to back flush (without me pulling the bung and doing it manuall) as a good thing.
Someday my focus may become better and I can handle the responsibility of two tanks. For now, Im better off with one 🙂
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It’s interesting… Two people at the park mentioned this potential risk in the past week (they were back flushing their tanks and had to keep an eye/mind on what they were doing to not flood the inside of their coach). Then the gentleman across from me did this by accident (hooked his fresh water hose to the wrong connector).
He isn’t inexperienced, he seemed more flustered. Sounds like his trip was not 100% perfect and he was probably a little tired. Add to that his new wife not 100% bought into the “trailer park” life style, I am sure that wasn’t helping.
While giving him assistance, I noticed he has his hose hooked to the flush hookup, and immediatly switched it for him, as well as figured out his pump was not turned on.
Before I bought our current coach, I never allowed anyone to do a #2 in our trailer. Only allowed #1 and had no problem with grey water usage. Because of this, I never even thought of having to backflush the black tank, even though now that I look back, I did have the hookups for that. So I guess I never had the opprotunity to overflow the system and flood the trailer. With my past lack of experience and current setup, I saw the benefit of not needing to “flush” the tank as a benefit.
I use our systems like Jon does. I dont leave my tank valves open and I dont keep city water open. I fill fresh water as I need it and dump at the same time. I hav fear of going out for the day and having a flooded coach of fresh water due to something going wrong/breaking. Sure it can happen with the fresh water tank, but that’s limited to 100 gallons, where city water is an endless supply of water. I’ll take “100 gallons over endless gallons for $1000 Alex”. As for the waste, well since we are using it for all things waste, it has a good amount of water in there at all times to flush the tank when I dump. We tend to make sure that before departing, we dump, then do either a load of laundry or shower and dump again to really flush the tank, but I think that is overkill.
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I am not announcing my party affiliation, only showing what others out there are driving around with.
Later
bv
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I suppose Bernie will give us free oil changes too!
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Steve, My wife & I are basically full timing. We sold our home and now our bus is our home. We will be in our bus 9-10 months a year, with the other time spent on my wife’s family’s farm for harvest in KS. Hope to meet you on the road or at a future rally.
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I don’t think I’ve paid yet.
Did I miss Something?
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Ok… we are in for sure… signed up and paid in full !!!
Can’t wait !!
Cheers…. Diane
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Are you doing one for Hillary as well just to keep it impartial? Be handy to keep both sides sweet. 🙂
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Wow Pres!
We’ll have to hook-up so you can teach me some of those recipes to cook on my new weber electric grill …
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Jon,
Dorman products makes a TPMS strap that fits up to 24″ wheel. Do you think that would work, there part # 974-040. All you would need is a universal TPMS monitoring system.
Bob
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We are head’n west for the winter…
If any mini no rally rallies are in Southern California or maybe ‘Lost’ Vegas…. we might can do it!
M.
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Chip,
We replaced our obsolete (SD only) KVH with the travl’r and directv.
It works great.
Joe
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Before replacing the expansion valve I would suggest you go to Harbor Freight and get a cheap set of refrigeration gauges and when the light comes on check with the gauges to see what the real pressures are.
It depends on how long the high pressure light stays on, but with practice you can get the gauges on the coach in a few minutes and crack the valves to get a reading.
I’ve seen the gauges for as cheap as $50. If the light is on and the gauges are within the normal range (which varies due to ambient temp but is likely around 40 on the low side and maybe 170 on the high side) the problem is the pressure switch for the light. If it is well over 200 on the high side it is probably the expansion valve. I have seen a failed expansion valve cause high side pressures over 350 PSI.
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Bill, Talked with Tracy. She said the event ends on Sunday so I would have to move over to their campground then. I