How to Fill FW tank?

[PharmGeek]

as a final update to this thread...I bought one of those clear hose fill attachments with an on/off valve - it fits into the FW fill opening and I fill the entire tank with no problems...so the problem was (I think) just that I was trying to fill it too fast and was blocking the vent or something. Not sure how long this plastic attachment will hold up, but probably for a while if I am careful...

[Ag&Au]

Originally Posted by PharmGeek

as a final update to this thread...I bought one of those clear hose fill attachments with an on/off valve - it fits into the FW fill opening and I fill the entire tank with no problems...so the problem was (I think) just that I was trying to fill it too fast and was blocking the vent or something. Not sure how long this plastic attachment will hold up, but probably for a while if I am careful...

My plastic valve-equipped tank filler tube, is more than 15 years old and has outlasted two trailers and working on a third.

(outlasted in the sense that I sold the first two trailers)

Ken

[daveswenson]

Originally Posted by PharmGeek

as a final update to this thread...I bought one of those clear hose fill attachments with an on/off valve - it fits into the FW fill opening and I fill the entire tank with no problems...so the problem was (I think) just that I was trying to fill it too fast and was blocking the vent or something. Not sure how long this plastic attachment will hold up, but probably for a while if I am careful...

Word of advice. Put a hose clamp on the clear hose to secure it to the valve. Ask me why.

[Ag&Au]

Originally Posted by daveswenson

Word of advice. Put a hose clamp on the clear hose to secure it to the valve. Ask me why.

Mine came with one. How did you get the tube out of the tank?

Ken

[MrUKToad]

Originally Posted by daveswenson

Word of advice. Put a hose clamp on the clear hose to secure it to the valve. Ask me why.

Oh dear! Did you manage to retrieve the pipe?

[daveswenson]

Originally Posted by MrUKToad

Oh dear! Did you manage to retrieve the pipe?

Nope

[PharmGeek]

Oh man - never would have thought of that!!!!!


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[blkmagikca]

My '87 Excella has a vent hole in the filler area - until I was shown it, I never would have suspected it to be there.



Here it is with the vent "closed" Notice how the plug blocks the vent.




What I use for filling the fresh water tank is an attchment I boought a number of years ago at Camping World