Strange Part in a Strange Place
A few days ago our hot water just quit flowing from all faucets in our Itasca Class C motorhome. The cold water flow was just fine and the water pump sounded normal. After scratching my head over ...
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Thanks for all of your great responses and invaluable information!
What I so far can't figure out is - when I looked directly into the tank's brass hot water outlet fitting's hole with the loose disc's stem facing into the tank and the flat disc part jammed in the fitting and facing outward towards me - which direction the anti-syphon action right there in that fitting was supposed to work?
i.e. To keep water from entering the tank there through the hot water outlet but being able to leave the tank through that fitting, it seems like the disc's stem with the spring around it should be facing outwards towards me so that the spring would be holding the o-ring against a rim in the brass fitting so that water could not come in through the outlet. However, the little white plastic piece was facing the other direction with only it's disc part facing me. :h
What I so far can't figure out is - when I looked directly into the tank's brass hot water outlet fitting's hole with the loose disc's stem facing into the tank and the flat disc part jammed in the fitting and facing outward towards me - which direction the anti-syphon action right there in that fitting was supposed to work?
i.e. To keep water from entering the tank there through the hot water outlet but being able to leave the tank through that fitting, it seems like the disc's stem with the spring around it should be facing outwards towards me so that the spring would be holding the o-ring against a rim in the brass fitting so that water could not come in through the outlet. However, the little white plastic piece was facing the other direction with only it's disc part facing me. :h
