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dsimonson
Explorer
Jun 28, 2020

City Water is filling/overflowing my freshwater tank

I must have a check valve issue, because when I attached city water to my trailer, I noted that it started (slowly) filling up my freshwater tank to the point it overflowed. I see that I can pretty...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Jun 28, 2020
On many RV's there is a 2nd path to fill the tank from city inlet. A "Quick Fill" (As Damon called it on mine) Valve. this is a common 3-way diverter valve
Turned one way it feeds water to the "Houe" the other way to the tank and half way in between both of 'em (Not supposed to do that) if it's not full stop then it may be letting water into the tank.
If the O-Rings in the valve have failed.. Likewise

Easy fix on most RV's.

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