ANTI-FREEZE IN PUMP

Poured it where? Its best to connect a short hose from the bottle to the input side of the pump.no muss no fuss. I can do mine on about one gallon.

Water tank.

You do not want to waste anti-freeze in your water tank. Just make sure it is empty, I often blew mine out with air to clear all the lines. Be sure it is low pressure.
POWDERMAN gave you the right info for the use of the pump. It just fills the lines. Be sure the hot water tank is by-passed or you will waste a lot of anti freeze. Hot water tank should be empty.

You can probably buy a siphon hose adapter that will screw onto the

Surflow pump at an rv store. I made mine.

Related to this--How do you bypass the hot water tank?
Obviously, I have not winterized before. Hot water tank is emptied.

Bypassing the hot water tank depends on whether your hot water tank has a bypass valve (or valves). This should be adjacent to the hot water tank inside the RV. If you don't have a bypass valve, there are simple to install bypass kits that will add a bypass valve to your hot water tank. Also easy to install is a winterizing kit which is a valve and tube that is installed at the intake side of your water pump. You connect the tube to the valve, turn the valve and put the other end of the tube into the RV antifreeze bottle. Turn on the pump and the pink stuff runs through through your plumbing. With this you will use a few bottles of antifreeze and the process is quick and easy then to winterize.

1775 wrote:
Bypassing the hot water tank depends on whether your hot water tank has a bypass valve (or valves). This should be adjacent to the hot water tank inside the RV. If you don't have a bypass valve, there are simple to install bypass kits that will add a bypass valve to your hot water tank. Also easy to install is a winterizing kit which is a valve and tube that is installed at the intake side of your water pump. You connect the tube to the valve, turn the valve and put the other end of the tube into the RV antifreeze bottle. Turn on the pump and the pink stuff runs through through your plumbing. With this you will use a few bottles of antifreeze and the process is quick and easy then to winterize.

Depends on the RV. Installed a kit on the TT we had. First of all, the pump was a PITA to get to. Was behind a wall under the sink. Had 2 ways to get to it. Both ways required laying on the ground with full entexnsion of the arm and not being able to see what you were doing. Did that the first year. Antifreeze jug was empty before I could turn off the pump. Was definitely a 2 person job there. After doing it that year, I actually pulled out the manual and it said to put it in the freshwater tank and pump it through the lines. Was much easier. Drained the excess from the low point drain. That spring, we rinsed and drained several times and had no pink residue or smell. If you do that and sanitize your tank, then there should be no issue. We also do not drink from our tank.

But long story short, we found it much easier and quicker to just pour it in the frsh water tank as the manufacturer recommended and do it that way. Need to see what the manual says for the new RV.

To OP this might help. Go to item 23
http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/264829.cfm

a winterizing kit makes life much easier and requires 1/2 the antifreeze. as does a water heater bypass kit. get both installed.
bumpy

Bumpyroad wrote:
a winterizing kit makes life much easier and requires 1/2 the antifreeze. as does a water heater bypass kit. get both installed.
bumpy

I think half is conservative. I can get the job done on 2 gallons and have a smidge left over.

On a side note, as i strolled through a Wally World yesterday, I saw a big stack of RV pink stuff for $2.97 each.