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Grit_dog
Navigator II
Jun 14, 2021

Yummy!

So finishing getting the new-used camper ready today.
Toilet valve was leaking. Bought a new one. Replaced it. Seemed odd a virtually new valve was leaking but this trailer is basically in its honeymoon albeit 4 years later. Basically new, hardly used.
Well it wasn’t the valve but the crimped on hose clamp. At least I have a spare now…
Running the toilet valve a bunch and sending a fair amount of water south with a couple fart fans on, ye old black tank sure didn’t smell un-used….
So’s I go to filling and cleaning the tanks. All of them. Black tank flush is pretty cool btw! May as well freshen up the potable tank too since it smelled a little funky as well.
Get everything full of water, buncha soap in the dirty tanks and some chlorine in the clean tank, take a little drive around to perfect the washing machine action.
Go dump the black and gray tanks and holee sheet!
Prev owner’s pristine camper came with gifts!
Unbelievable….Really?
I totally believe the PO when he said it hasn’t even been used since like 2018.
I cant believe he didn’t even dump and clean the tanks halfway decent before parking it!

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  • Speaking of yummy, genset was basically never used either. Had 8 hours on it when we bought it and the PO said he only put on a couple, figured the dealer must’ve run it when he had it in for warranty work in 2018. He actually thought it was a propane generator and said he never added gas to the tank. Lol
    When I got it, genny actually ran on the 4 year old gas, but rough. Dumped in 5 gal and a healthy dose of seafoam and it cleaned up. Tossed another 5ver of AV gas in it today and tried the gas pump since the needle finally came off empty. What came out of the gas pump initially was nothing short of gross. The first quart or so looked like something between dark colored urine and slightly used motor oil!
    Pumped out another gallon or so and it cleaned up to a nice light yellow…pretty bad considering there was 5 gallons of clear 87 and 5 gallons of blue gas just put in the tank.

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