Mar-18-2024 01:31 PM
I have been RVing since 1979. During this time, I have owned a dozen or more travel trailers and or 5th wheels RVs. Each of these RVs had a gravity freshwater fill port with a vent/overfill drain at a location that was easy to see when the freshwater tank was full. We boondocks more than 75% of the time; therefore, it is very important to have a full freshwater type.
Our current 5th wheel does not have a gravity freshwater filled port and the vent/overflow drain is located near the wheels where it is almost impossible to see when the freshwater tank is full and water overflows. I thought about running some type of hose, connected to the existing vent/overflow drain to someplace such as near the City water hose connection so I can see when the freshwater tank is full. Do any of you have a better suggestion?
I’m not trying to address the problem of siphoning water out of the freshwater tank. There are other threads which address the siphoning problem.
Mar-20-2024 05:28 PM
does your water fill not have an incorperated vent? most do.. if not you could just change out the water fill to a new one with a vent and run the vent line to that. personaly I fill y tanks till I get a water coming out of the overflow vent then I stop. probably not the way to do it but I have been doing that for 40 years now.
Mar-20-2024 07:56 PM
StirCrazy. I do not have a gravity fill water fill.
Mar-21-2024 04:56 PM
sorry when I see gravity fill I think of the old ones that poped out so you could use a bucket to fill. how do you fill it then, a valve off your city hookup?