Water Heater Pressure Relief Valve
Shakedown trip this past weekend. Great trip, but discovered a small drip coming from my water heater relief valve when the water heater is turned on. Not a serious leak, just a drip. It was conver...
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RayChez wrote:Rwake901 wrote:
I thought mine was bad too. Read your instructions, according to the instructions a small drip is normal. At least that's what mine say..
They should not leak at all. Nothing normal about having a water leak which would work its way into the sub floor and eventually cause some serious damage.
Normal/not normal.........
More like not uncommon for them to weep.
It is a very small closed system so pressures from swelling of water can cause them to weep and when they do it is outside of rig onto the metal pan. So sub-floor damage is not the usual issue.
Gas solenoid getting wet and then corroding is an issue with Suburban and with Atwood they can weep on the thermal cut-out and/or t-stat terminals corroding them.
So YES they shouldn't leak......but they occasionally do due to loss of air pocket and/or build up of deposits
