ADK Camper wrote:
I did this once too. Felt like a fool. You might want to get a tank rinser. Don't know if that's it's real name, bit it's just a tube with a little bend at one end and a standard female garden hose connector on the other. And happily it's very inexpensive. You insert it after removing the anode rod and flush out the tank. Even if you don't need to flush antifreeze it's useful to flush out crud from the tank. You'd be surprised at the mineral deposits and other stuff that collects in there.
Camco makes that little rinser; about $5 on Amazon. Invaluable when trying to rinse the tank; the little curved end really helps. I just flused my this weekend and the sediment that came out of it was incredible.
It was totally my fault; neglected the tank for about 3 years.
