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love4god
Explorer
Oct 02, 2013

Sewage smell, also how do you clean your tanks?

I have a pretty bad sewer smell in my RV, nothing we've ever had before. I thought maybe I needed to dump so I dumped the tanks, put new chemical in, everything is just about empty but it still stinks...
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slarsen
Explorer
Oct 03, 2013
I had a failure of the valve by the sink just last week. It stank horribly. I took off the valve, covered the openings with electrical tape, screwed it back in, and the smell went away totally in MINUTES.

I've been convinced that this valve needs to be replaced, and I will, but I've towed another 1000 miles since this happened, dumped a couple of times, and still NO odor issues.

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