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wnjj
Apr 30, 2018Explorer II
jcubeta wrote:
A fellow camper suggested that there may be another valve near the water pump that was manipulated during winterization that I may need to open/close. I don't even know where my water pump is, but it sounds like it's under our kitchen cabinets (my dealer never told me about how to find or maintain the water pump).
That would be the winterizing valve. It's a 2-way valve (3 ports) that selects between the tank or a short piece of open-ended tubing for the pump's water inlet. Sometimes it can be 2 separate valves, 1 per 'input'. That way you can use the pump to pull RV antifreeze directly from the bottle without having to put any in your fresh water tank. If that valve is set wrong, your pump will run and provide nothing but air and little spits of water that's already in your system from the city inlet (i.e. what you describe).
It may well be unrelated to your tank filling issue.
Are you sure your city/fill valve is turned all the way to 'city'? If it's anywhere but completely on city, some water will still fill the tank. The same goes for if it's broken or failing.
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