Hard to Fill Fresh Water with Gravity Fill
Just picked up our new 2015 Starcraft 18BH. Had our first weekend in it and all went well. Some learning to be done but overall no major issues. I sanitized and the fresh water system prior to leav...
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Climbed in tonight and opened up the bench.. A few issues..
The tank is a 20G (this is not a problem)
There is no vent hose. The gravity feed on the outside of the TT has a vent, inside it is not attached. The tank itself does not have a vent connection that I can see. Do the tanks have vent connections or is a hole usually drilled with a hose poked through? I suspect there is usually a vent connection on the tank and I have the low end model that does not have it.
Here is a pic
Hard to see in the pic but the spout on the water tank is almost a little higher then the gravity fill spout on the TT. Between this and the lack of vent it explains the hard time filling.
That said I was able to carefully twist and poke the camco gravity fill hose tip all the way into the tank from the gravity fill spout. Once inside I could fill the tank very quickly with no backflow. The problem here however is the tip is quite hard to get all the way in do to the corrugated tube they used from the fill spout to the tank. I think I will replace this corrugate tube with a smooth hose of some sort and all will be good.
Slightly off topic in poking around I wiggle some of the wiring and broke wire on the ground I believe of the tank sensor. Will need to re-attach the wire as the tank no longer reports levels.
So not terrible news... I can fill the tank quickly. Just need to swap out the hose. Also need to fix my broken wire..
The tank is a 20G (this is not a problem)
There is no vent hose. The gravity feed on the outside of the TT has a vent, inside it is not attached. The tank itself does not have a vent connection that I can see. Do the tanks have vent connections or is a hole usually drilled with a hose poked through? I suspect there is usually a vent connection on the tank and I have the low end model that does not have it.
Here is a pic
Hard to see in the pic but the spout on the water tank is almost a little higher then the gravity fill spout on the TT. Between this and the lack of vent it explains the hard time filling.
That said I was able to carefully twist and poke the camco gravity fill hose tip all the way into the tank from the gravity fill spout. Once inside I could fill the tank very quickly with no backflow. The problem here however is the tip is quite hard to get all the way in do to the corrugated tube they used from the fill spout to the tank. I think I will replace this corrugate tube with a smooth hose of some sort and all will be good.
Slightly off topic in poking around I wiggle some of the wiring and broke wire on the ground I believe of the tank sensor. Will need to re-attach the wire as the tank no longer reports levels.
So not terrible news... I can fill the tank quickly. Just need to swap out the hose. Also need to fix my broken wire..
