Winterization: wet or dry?

CloudDriver wrote:

skipnchar wrote:
Blowing out the lines (dry method) works well as LONG as you're very meticulous in the job you do. Any remaining water left at a critical place CAN cause you some repairs (water left in the water pump, check valves or faucet valves in particular). The "wet method" is much more fool proof and doesn't take much skill to do it right. It is also a faster method but the cost is a little higher (the cost of the antifreeze).

Good luck / Skip

X2

For each day of a hard freeze,

the antifreeze method = no worries

the blow out method = hope I got it all out

Agreed. Ask my BIL about the time he "thought" he blew all the water out of the lines of his toy hauler. Unpleasant surprise that spring.

Since you have a copper canyon and with it being keystone, I think you will find in your manual (as the manual for the keystone sprinter select TT we had did) that it says to drain the water out of the lines and out the antifreeze in your fresh water tank and let the water pump, pump it through the lines. Yes in the spring you will have to rinse it out a couple times to get the pink stuff out and then you will have to sanitize the tank (which you should do anyways) , but to me spending less than $20 on antifreeze each year is well worth it. And to boot, it's a lot easier and quicker to do than blowing out lines and adding pink stuff to the traps and seals. At least with adding antifreeze and seeing the pink stuff come through the lines that its good to go.

But people do it differently. And many have good luck doing it both ways.