Fresh Water Drain - repair help needed
2008 Forest River Sandstorm - developed a leak at the base of the forward fresh water tank; where the drain ties in (see photo - hopefully it works). I can see what appears to be a threaded ring that...
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nayther wrote:ThomasFour wrote:
Thanks Dick. I ordered the Duluth Trading extreme tape. Good stuff to have around anyway. Did some poking around today and pried back the broken collar a little bit. It is female threaded and plastic welded to the bottom of the tank. No easy way to replace it. I'm going with the Extreme tape as a hopefully more permanent fix....
yes the threaded piece is thermal welded to the tank then a slip/thread adapter is screwed into the first piece and everything else is PVC glued. In order to remove the slip/thread adapter you need to cut the pipe and unscrew it, then you can use a coupling and reglue or just replace it all, PVC is cheap and easy to work with. The drain valves are flanged so can be reused. If the fitting at the tank is the one leaking it was probably over tightened and cracked, not much you can do for that, special machine is needed to weld to the plastic.
Your assessment seems exactly correct as far as the way its put together. I would rather replace the broken part but doing that in this case would be a huge job.
As far as how it happened - in addition to what you pointed out - I also considered that a piece of road debris (rock) could have it it at some point and cracked it??
