Hey Y'all! Have a noob question!
Hello. The Wife and I are from Texas and we just bought a new Lance 1995. It will sit on our lease the vast majority of the time and we have a question about our blackwater tank. We'll use it ...
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Dont leave it sitting in there. My buddy did as you describe and ended up with a solid "cake" in the bottom that was miserable to clean out. It actually clogged his tank and made it impossible to drain.
We use our trailer just as you described and also never come close to filling the black tank.
But, I have a solution:
Add a third valve just before the hose connection.
This allows you to use your grey tank contents to flush your black tank thoroughly even when it is only partially full.
Procedure:
*Dump black tank, leave its valve open and close third valve.
*Open grey tank valve and allow contents to flow into black tank.
*Close grey tank valve and open third valve to dump black tank again.
*Close black tank valve and dump grey as usual (or backflush black again if you want).
This procedure cleans the black tank far better than my rinser (as evidenced by all the stuff that came out after I used my rinser and then used my third valve method). It also solves the problem of not having enough content in the black tank to dump it succesfully.
I even use this method at dump stations since it only takes an extra 30 seconds or so.
We use our trailer just as you described and also never come close to filling the black tank.
But, I have a solution:
Add a third valve just before the hose connection.
This allows you to use your grey tank contents to flush your black tank thoroughly even when it is only partially full.
Procedure:
*Dump black tank, leave its valve open and close third valve.
*Open grey tank valve and allow contents to flow into black tank.
*Close grey tank valve and open third valve to dump black tank again.
*Close black tank valve and dump grey as usual (or backflush black again if you want).
This procedure cleans the black tank far better than my rinser (as evidenced by all the stuff that came out after I used my rinser and then used my third valve method). It also solves the problem of not having enough content in the black tank to dump it succesfully.
I even use this method at dump stations since it only takes an extra 30 seconds or so.
