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manandwman
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Jun 20, 2013

no hot water in the coach

My neighbor has a 2000 Fleetwood Discovery motor coach and there is no hot water at any of the faucets inside the coach. When you open the pressure valve at the heater the water is scalding hot. He bought it used and there is no manual. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • on our Discovery the water heater bypass is accessed via a panel in the bedroom closet, on the passenger side where the rear of the water heater is.
  • bdpreece wrote:
    May also be as simple as the outside shower faucet being shut off at the head rather than the handles being in the off position. This allows the cold water to flow into the hot water lines.

    X-2
  • Yes, go to the outside shower faucet and shut off both valves tightly. That will fix the problem 99% of the time. Happened to us again this morning after we fired up the hot water heater.

    Bill
  • May also be as simple as the outside shower faucet being shut off at the head rather than the handles being in the off position. This allows the cold water to flow into the hot water lines.
  • I just did a Google search and there are a lot of different discussions in a lot of different forums about where exactly the bypass valves are on various Fleetwood models. You may need to do that Google search yourself and look at some of the answers of it's not in the plumbing compartment. Mine is in the plumping compartment along with all the other valves on my National RV.
  • In his plumbing compartment he probably has a lever that is labeled water heater bypass. It is in the bypass position. That's my guess anyway.