New to TT

[BackendMedic]

Hey all! I am new to the TT/Camping. I just bought a 1986 Fleetwood Prowler from a buddy. I was able to get it cheap in an effort to make sure my wife and family will be into the camping experience before investing a lot of money into it. Now, he did not winterize before I bought it. I blew the lines out (to the best of my knowledge), drained the fresh, gray and blank tanks and the hot water heater. Do I need to run the pink stuff through the water pump to prevent freezing? I had planned on running the pink stuff through the entire system, but, as far as I can tell, there is no water heater bypass valves. It would have taken 6 to 8 gallons and at %5 a gallon where I'm at, didn't want to spend that much if blowing the lines out was enough. Do I need to run the antifreeze through the pump as well, or is blowing the lines out enough? Thanks for help.

[Yardvarkers]

http://rvservices.koa.com/rvinformation/rvmaintenance/step-by-step-rv-winterizing-checklist.asp

[Camper_G]

Congrats on your TT!

Camping is great and it's a great family activity.

Personally, if it were me, I'd buy and install the water heater by-pass kit, then bypass the water heater, drain it, then run the pink through all the lines.

I usually use about 3 gallons to winterize, which is over-doing it, but I like to let a good solid pink flow out of the hot and cold sides of each of my faucets when I winterize and enough to make sure the sink/drain traps have a good amount of pink antifreeze in them as well. At $4/gallon in my area, it's cheap insurance.

I'd be concerned, as one other poster stated of getting the pink into the toilet flush valve, there are some small diameter lines in the toilet.

However, lots of other folks just blow everything out and never have an issue, so to each their own. I spend a couple bucks on the pink and then don't have any worry all winter long.

Good luck.

[jimw606]

Be sure and get the water out of the commode flush valve.

[Cobra21]

You should be okay, but pour some pink down the drains to get it in your plumbing traps. Also leave the ping in your empty grey and black tanks. The pump will
be okay like that. And congratulations on the "New" Camper.

Brian

[Doug33]

I don't know how you could run the RV anti-freeze through the pump without getting it into the hot water tank, considering you don't have a bypass kit.