2oldman wrote:
Things have changed a lot since 1989. I think your owner's manual is nuts. What did your neighbors say to make you drain it?
Nobody does things the way you describe.
I do.
I haven't yet read all 5 pages of this thread.
I have the same problem on my 1993 TT. There is no water heater by-pass. I first drain the water heater. I have a drain. (I see where you have no drain but, you have a anode rod to pull out. You should have pulled that and drained the water heater first.) Then I add 8 gallons of anti-freeze to my fresh water tank. I run the pump until I get pink though the whole system. This takes a few minutes because I have to re-fill the now empty water heater. Then after everything is full of antifreeze I pull all my low point drains and empty them. This helps me not have as bad of smell and foaming in the spring when I DE-winterize.
Because I have 6 gallons of antifreeze in my water heater I catch and save that antifreeze, mark that it is used once, and use it the next year to winterize my boat. After winterizing the boat I pull all the plugs on it's system to drain it just in case the used antifreeze is not pure.
I've been doing this for years in temps to below 0 F with no problem.
My only concern with what you did was that you did not drain the fresh water from the water heater first. Your pink antifreeze might be to diluted by the fresh water left you had left in there. I would not feel safe that way. I'm not sure your concentration of antifreeze is good enough.
OK, I read all 5 pages now. What you did was fine and it's what I do except I save the anti-freeze and use it in my boat the next year.
Nice 5th Wheel. !!!! I like those big windows. Thanks for the pictures.
