To Dump The Fresh Water Tank ... Or Not?
New to this forum ... and new to RV-ing. My wife and I just purchased a new truck camper last Thursday ... an ALP Adventurer 86SBS. Believe it or not, we got the bare minimum of a walk through, so I h...
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K, I just got off the phone with ALP/Adventure. I asked if I would be allowed to quote them on a public forum, and they said yes.
**ALL** products currently produced by ALP/Eagle Cap CAN be ran with full water on or off the truck, and that they are in the process of revising thier manual.
This does NOT apply to TC's prior to thier acquisition - meaning Eagle Cap's prior to 2011, and Adventures prior to '08. He stated that since they did not make them prior to those years, they wouldn't want to speak for them.
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I also just got off the phone with Arctic Fox - all of thier products 2005 and newer are also full off-truck usable. They did a floor redesign in 2005 to guarantee the support needed. The only issue they noted prior to '05 was overfilled/over-pressured tanks blowing the bottom out. Prior to '05 are still ok for normal off-truck use as long as you make sure you don't blow the tank out.
Its not that I don't have anything better to do, I'm actually at work, but since this got brought up, I just needed to know from the horses mouth.
**ALL** products currently produced by ALP/Eagle Cap CAN be ran with full water on or off the truck, and that they are in the process of revising thier manual.
This does NOT apply to TC's prior to thier acquisition - meaning Eagle Cap's prior to 2011, and Adventures prior to '08. He stated that since they did not make them prior to those years, they wouldn't want to speak for them.
On edit---
I also just got off the phone with Arctic Fox - all of thier products 2005 and newer are also full off-truck usable. They did a floor redesign in 2005 to guarantee the support needed. The only issue they noted prior to '05 was overfilled/over-pressured tanks blowing the bottom out. Prior to '05 are still ok for normal off-truck use as long as you make sure you don't blow the tank out.
Its not that I don't have anything better to do, I'm actually at work, but since this got brought up, I just needed to know from the horses mouth.
