No Hot Water

Glad you found the problem........install a shutoff valve vs a new cheap plastic piece of junk check valve

You sound like my GF.

I tell her 1 bag in.....2 bags out but I keep finding 3 bags :B

Thank you for all of your help! Finding it was easier to work on the lines by removing a dummy wall under a closet instead of working through a stupid 4"X7" opening they provide. You were right it was the back flow, it had shot apart into the line. Hubby had everything drained, removed what he could & blew the rest out with the compressor after he had removed the line at the other end. Plus from this ... we now have a removable panel :B ... the con ... answering why I have sooooo many craft things hidden away! :W

The pop he heard was probably the cheap check valve. Like said, replace that junk with a single throw valve and never worry again.

There has been lots a threads here on check valves stopping hot water flow.

Old-Biscuit wrote:

Desert Captain wrote:
Had a similar experience last weekend while out camping. Friday the hot water worked fine, Saturday no hot water. Had good flow (full tanks), 120 AC and full LP tank. Checked the breakers and fuses even pushed on the Reset buttons on the water heater.... still nothing. :h

Then my buddy bent down a little lower than I could and said hey whats this switch do? Back down low is a simple ON/OFF black switch which for reasons known only to the RV God's had tripped itself like a breaker. There is no mention of this switch in the owners manual but I assume it is just to enable you to manually shut the water heater off.

Flipped it to on and presto, all the hot water we could ever want. :S

?????
Suburban WH?
Switch in outside compartment....lower corner?
If YES...that is an ON/OFF switch for electric element.

Whatever it is/does once we turned it back on within a minute or two the gas burner lit off like the afterburner on an F-18 (nothing I would want to take place in a gas station.... but that is another fun discussion in and of itself), and in ten minutes we had a tank full of hot water. Not sure of the water heater brand but will recheck tomorrow when I bring the rig home from storage to load for our next trip. Thanks! :C

Desert Captain wrote:
Had a similar experience last weekend while out camping. Friday the hot water worked fine, Saturday no hot water. Had good flow (full tanks), 120 AC and full LP tank. Checked the breakers and fuses even pushed on the Reset buttons on the water heater.... still nothing. :h

Then my buddy bent down a little lower than I could and said hey whats this switch do? Back down low is a simple ON/OFF black switch which for reasons known only to the RV God's had tripped itself like a breaker. There is no mention of this switch in the owners manual but I assume it is just to enable you to manually shut the water heater off.

Flipped it to on and presto, all the hot water we could ever want. :S

?????
Suburban WH?
Switch in outside compartment....lower corner?
If YES...that is an ON/OFF switch for electric element.

Stuck/failed check valve on HOT water outlet (nipple on tank....check valve is inside)

You can disconnect HOT water line at tank.then remove nipple and remove internals (just break them up with a screw driver/pliers) then re-install nipple and HOT water line.

You will then have hot water......pick up a new check valve when convenient OR better yet a shutoff valve and do away with that junk check valve.

Check valve is there to stop water from backflowing into WH tank via HOT line WHEN WH is bypassed (winterizing etc>)

Had a similar experience last weekend while out camping. Friday the hot water worked fine, Saturday no hot water. Had good flow (full tanks), 120 AC and full LP tank. Checked the breakers and fuses even pushed on the Reset buttons on the water heater.... still nothing. :h

Then my buddy bent down a little lower than I could and said hey whats this switch do? Back down low is a simple ON/OFF black switch which for reasons known only to the RV God's had tripped itself like a breaker. There is no mention of this switch in the owners manual but I assume it is just to enable you to manually shut the water heater off.

Flipped it to on and presto, all the hot water we could ever want. :S

No water when hot water is turned on. Drained tank & filled but nothing coming through lines.

No water period out of the hot side or is it just not hot?