Winterizing question / brothers tt
He has no bypass and extra hose on his pump like mine to suck up the pink stuff??? Can he just pour into his fresh water tank and pump it thru his system that way? Thanks!
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Yes you can, but it will take a lot to circulate through the entire system. Normally the fresh water tank has some water in the bottom that is never accessible. So you'll loose a gallon or more there. Then you'll have to pump at least 6 gallons to fill the water heater if you do not by-pass. If you by-pass the water heater, you'll save 6 gallons. After all that, it will probably be a gallon or 2 at the very most to flush out all the lines.
The problem is cleaning out the fresh water tank from all the pink stuff. It's almost impossible to clean it out. Your water will foam out the spigots, probably forever.
All is not lost ...
I read on another post, that someone suggested using the shower hose. Disconnect from the shower, remove the shower head, attach to the inlet side of the water pump and use the other end to stick in the gallon jug of pink stuff. The fittings are 1/2 inch threaded. I never thought of that, but yes, it will work if you have threaded connections on your pump.
Another option is to go to any Home Depot type store and pick up a 1/2 inch threaded hose used for hooking up your kitchen sink water lines. This will work also.
On the pump, you have to unscrew the inlet side and screw in the hose. When done, reattach the line from the fresh water tank.
OR purchase a water by pass kit and hook it up permanently. That what i did with our our camper because it did not have a by-pass for the Pink-Stuff already installed.
The problem is cleaning out the fresh water tank from all the pink stuff. It's almost impossible to clean it out. Your water will foam out the spigots, probably forever.
All is not lost ...
I read on another post, that someone suggested using the shower hose. Disconnect from the shower, remove the shower head, attach to the inlet side of the water pump and use the other end to stick in the gallon jug of pink stuff. The fittings are 1/2 inch threaded. I never thought of that, but yes, it will work if you have threaded connections on your pump.
Another option is to go to any Home Depot type store and pick up a 1/2 inch threaded hose used for hooking up your kitchen sink water lines. This will work also.
On the pump, you have to unscrew the inlet side and screw in the hose. When done, reattach the line from the fresh water tank.
OR purchase a water by pass kit and hook it up permanently. That what i did with our our camper because it did not have a by-pass for the Pink-Stuff already installed.
