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Re: [VAC] Holding tanks
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Then I went outside and looked under the
>
trailer on the toilet/street water inlet side. Yikes! It was like
someone
> had poked the trailer with a fork. Water was pouring off
two metal pipe
> thingys that both have caps on them (about 1/4 inch size
pipes, looks
> original) but it wasn't coming out of the caps, just using
the pipes to
> direct the water flow.
These are drains
for the water system.
I turned the water off and there continued to be
water
> pressure in the sinks for several minutes.
I believe that
you have an air pressure water system, if so you will have pressure for quite
some time, this is normal. The tank is designed to hold water
and pressurized air, which keeps the water pressurized. It was around '62 or '63
that they changed over to a water pump system, which does not function this
way.
> How do I tackle this. My guess is the
system froze at some time and burst a
> seam or something.
Yes, just try to track it
down, the pipes should all be inside the trailer, not inside the belly pan
except for the drains and holding tank. Being the low points in the plumbing,
perhaps the drains burst within the belly, but just because the leak is coming
out of one end of the trailer doesn't mean that the leak is at that
end.
I keep hearing about taking off the underbelly to
get to
> the black water tank. Could I also pull the toilet and rip
up the bathroom
> floor (could use replacing along that side).
If you wish, now is as good
of a time as any.
Does the 62TW have a fresh
> water tank that
fills up? Come to think of it, that might be under the bed
> on the
opposite side.
Yes, it should have a fresh
water tank, my '60 has it under the front couch, the air pump is located there
also.
> Janis, Silver Trailer Trash
> '62
Tradewind, "Flowing Fountain"
>
Scott
Scheuermann
'60
Overlander