Toilet Maintenance

Lowcountrydupree wrote:
We have a Thetford Aqua Magic Style II toilet in our 5th wheel. Is there any special maintenance that y'all do especially on the foot valve to keep from it sticking and water to run continually?

Maybe if you'd spend more time reading, and less time w/ funny's ?

Am I the only one to read this as a problem w/ the pressure water inlet valve ??

I have never had a water valve stick so as to let water into the bowl continuously. But I would think in hard water areas it could happen.
Bowl seals leaking, yes, but there again only from hard water deposits
on the blade, roughing up the seal.

I have this same model and I'm on my 3rd one in just over 4 years of full time use. The movable parts just seem to wear out. I don't waste my time chasing repair when things starts to go wrong with this unit, I just replace it. I don't think the unit is up for full time use and parts just wear out and get sloppy.

Aside from occasional cleaning the only maintenance I do is feed it regularly.

I think what they are telling you is it is a toilet. If you flush it and everything goes down all is good. Why ask why.

Francesca Knowles wrote:

352 wrote:
Sometimes stuff gets stuck down there. Reach your arm down the hole as far as you can. When down to the max feel around for anything chunky. Grab it and squeeze it between your fingers until it gets smaller then dump some water in it (After you pull your arm out of coarse}. Do this once a month for regular maintenance. Wash your hands before cooking. I do have a self help video available. Hope this helps.

What temperature should one cook them at?

98.6 degrees. Did you get the punch line?

352 wrote:
Sometimes stuff gets stuck down there. Reach your arm down the hole as far as you can. When down to the max feel around for anything chunky. Grab it and squeeze it between your fingers until it gets smaller then dump some water in it (After you pull your arm out of coarse}. Do this once a month for regular maintenance. Wash your hands before cooking. I do have a self help video available. Hope this helps.

What temperature should one cook them at?

I have the same toilet and had the same problem. I kept trying different ways to treat the seal in the bowl but nothing worked. I watched a video on the Thetford website on how to remove the foot petal and lubed everything. Put the pedal back on and it works great. I did not remove the toilet as shown in the video.

Sometimes stuff gets stuck down there. Reach your arm down the hole as far as you can. When down to the max feel around for anything chunky. Grab it and squeeze it between your fingers until it gets smaller then dump some water in it (After you pull your arm out of coarse}. Do this once a month for regular maintenance. Wash your hands before cooking. I do have a self help video available. Hope this helps.

Nope. I did just rebuild my traveler after nine years of faithful service.