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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Tvov wrote:
I use 6 gallons of antifreeze poured into an almost empty freshwater tanks. I do have a water heater bypass valve, so I shutout the water heater and drain it from the outside, put drain plug back in loosely. Run the water pump, start with kitchen faucet (closest to tank), run water until pink, shutoff and move to the bathroom. Run all faucets / toilet / shower / outside shower until all have pink. This also gets antifreeze into the sink traps and black and grey tanks. Go back and repeat until level in water tank is down to pump inlet. 10 winters now and this has worked fine. In Spring I fill and drain the freshwater tank multiple times to flush it and the plumbing. Flushing has worked fine for me.
I have read that it is a no-no to allow the RV antifreeze (pink stuff) in the water heater. I am not sure exactly why. So I don't know why your brother's TT would not have a bypass valve. Are your sure you have just not found it? Sometimes they are not in obvious places.
With my previous TT I had easy access to the pump and could connect a short hose and draw directly from the RV antifreeze bottle. With the new TT, I could not easily access the water pump, so I had to resort to doing what you did, and it ended up taking 7-8 gallons in the freshwater tank before the pump could draw the fluid through the system.
I figure in the spring I can recapture much of that pink stuff for use the following year.
