Antifreeze in everything!
I couldn't figure out why I could not stop getting pink water at the taps until I realized previous owner added some antifreeze to fresh tank! Not only that, but he didn't bypass the water heater. :( ...
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rockhillmanor wrote:robsouth wrote:WoodGlue wrote:
Oh my!
This is why people should film their PDI or dealership walk through!
WoodGlue
I actually overhead a salesman once telling the prospective customers how easily they winterize by putting several gallons in the fresh water tank and just turn on the pump till pink came out the faucets.
That's how I do it.
Me too...First year I thought I would just pump it out of the jug with the little kit I bought ot put on the pump. After all, that's what many people said they did here on the forum. What a pain in the butt it was. First of all, you couldn't see what you were doing based on the location of the pump. Secondly, you were fully stretched out to get the hose hooked up to the kit. Thirdly, by the time you clicked on the pump and opened a faucet, got pink and then tried to go to another faucet, the jug would be empty. Just a pain in the butt. So I did the dumbest thing. I opended up the manual to my Keystone TT and read the winterizing steps. They said to put it in the fresh water tank and then pump it through the lines. So, I poured in several gallons. And turned on the pump and then went around and turned on all the faucets and shower heads. Let them run until each one was running pink, and then turned them off individually as this happened. Had maybe a quart left in the fresh water tank which I left there all winter. Spring came...I put bucket under low point drain and emptied the little that was in there. Filled the tank up and ran all the faucets till they stopped running pink. Dumped the tank (doing this at a FHU campground. Filled freshwater again and repeated. Didn't bother sanitizing the system as we don't drink from the tank at all. Matter of fact, we normally do not have any water in the fresh water tank at all. We never camped anywhere but FHU, so we didn't feel it was necesssary.
With the new motor home, we will sanitize and use the fresh water tank. But to us, it was much easier to just run the pink stuff through the lines from the fresh water tank. No special tools needed. No added extra steps. My brother in law had a toyhauler and would blow the lines out only. He did that a few years and then one year he thought he got them all blown out and found out that spring, that he didn't. He had some repairs to take care of right before going camping.
