Installing Winterization Valve

[NWRVGuy]

Hello everyone. I have a inline strainer/filter (SHURflow) on the intake side of my water compressor. Wanted to install a winterization valve and hose but there is zero room. Do I take the filter off ever year when I winterize? Any other creative solutions?

[Bumpyroad]

Harvey51 wrote:


Some people drain the tank and pour a couple of gallons of the pink stuff in, then let the water pump suck it up and fill the lines.

a waste of AF and the AF left in the bottom of the tank will not drain, even if water is not compressible.

bumpy

[Rvpapa]

2oldman wrote "You guys don't read too carefully"
After 16 years you finally noticed :B :B
Art.

[westend]

Tried getting your image to post but no luck. Do you have some privacy options enabled on Imgur?

From the picture: It looks like you have about an inch of clearance on the output side of the pump. Dismount the pump from floor, slide it all the way right, and install a "T" with a cap on the inlet side before the filter. If you get lucky, your new "T" will be exactly the same dimension as the clearance you used.

[2oldman]

You guys don't read too carefully.

[Bobbo]

2oldman wrote:
Water is incompressible.

And centripetal force due to gravity is what keeps the moon from flying off into space.

Why are we discussing physics?

[Bumpyroad]

2oldman wrote:
Water is incompressible.

and this relates to this issue how?
bumpy

[2oldman]

Water is incompressible.

[Bumpyroad]

there was zero room in my TT on the intake side so I put the fitting on the output side and just pump AF in thru that using a 12 volt bilge pump.
bumpy

[NWRVGuy]

Guess not. 😞

[NWRVGuy]

Maybe this will help. Not much hose coming out of the floor either. They sure didn’t make it user friendly. This is a 2009 Stealth 1812. Hopefully the picture uploads OK. First time using this feature.

[jplante4]

I don't even bother with the winterize kit on the pump. I just remove the suction line from the water tank and stick that in a bottle of pink stuff. I use about 3 gallons (washer/dryer).

[MFL]

I also have limited space, no room for permanent kit fitting. I just remove fitting on intake side of pump, and attach a pre-made hose with fitting in its place.

Jerry

[ksg5000]

Use the forum search feature - plenty of posts where people use air to winterize their rigs.

[Harvey51]

Tough. Maybe a photo would inspire some ideas. Could the pump be moved to make more room? I'm thinking of my MH where a plastic tube with a couple of accessible elbows comes from the water tank to the pump. I could disconnect an elbow (threaded connectors) and hook up a hose to a jug of antifreeze.

Some people drain the tank and pour a couple of gallons of the pink stuff in, then let the water pump suck it up and fill the lines.