Hot Water not working - 2022 Jayco SLX 95

rphail wrote:
Thanks for the ideas, I am sure that I drained it but can say I am equally as sure I turned it on without water since at first I had forgotten the bypass valves from winterizing. Seams odd that the lines themselves leak at connection to the tank after about 5 minutes of filling the tank...will try to post a small video or pic.

Hi,


If you did not force antifreeze through the bypass valves in the normal connection position to the tank, as you left them in bypass all winter, (you said that in your first post) the water on the tank side of the bypass valve may not have been flushed out with antifreeze and that can crack the fitting. Then you can have a leak.

Just because you pumped antifreeze through the bypass valves/system and you left it in bypass all winter, that does not flush out the water on the "normal" tank side of the bypass valves.

You said this:

rphail wrote:


When I took it out this year to make the first trip I found I was not getting any hot water. I remembered the bypass valves were turned to avoid the hot water tank, I reset them and the tank began to fill.... then the blue and red connections going into the tank began to leak out water (approximately the time I suspect it filled up, took 5 minutes or more). What did I forget and or perhaps do wrong last time I winterized it?

I know folks are talking about a burnt-out element, and that will happen if you fire the heater on electric with no water in it, but it does not create leaks in the piping going into the heater. The element if it is burnt out, is a separate problem.

Hope this helps

John

PS, Post a few pics of the back side of the water heater so we can see your bypass setup and we can tell better what you may have done wrong.