We had our Jayco witerized last winter. Sunday I deceided to sanatize the water system getting ready to head to South Dakota for a work-camping gig for the summer. While I thought I was filling the system water started comming out of the belly-pan. I took trailer back too the repair shop and they found a small clear plastic filter that was inline with the water pump that had ruptured. Why it still had water it is a mystery. They did away with the filter so it shouldn't happen again. No other plumbing problems and all is good now.
Thought I would pass this along for those that might have to winterize. The Tech at the shop said not all manufactures use these filters in their water systems anymore. Just something you might look for when winterizeing.
RickandJanice said
03:16 PM May 15, 2011
The purpose of these "strainers" is to prevent debris from the fresh water tank form being sucked into the water pump and damaging it. Some RVs have a tank bypass system so antifreeze can be siphoned direct from the bottle instead of having to run it through the fresh water tank. If this bypass is plumbed in after the strainer or antifreeze is pumped through the fresh water connection, it will not get into this strainer bulb which was probably the case. With some of the sand and calcium I have found in our strainer screen, I would not recommend running without one for any extended period of time.
We had our Jayco witerized last winter. Sunday I deceided to sanatize the water system getting ready to head to South Dakota for a work-camping gig for the summer. While I thought I was filling the system water started comming out of the belly-pan. I took trailer back too the repair shop and they found a small clear plastic filter that was inline with the water pump that had ruptured. Why it still had water it is a mystery. They did away with the filter so it shouldn't happen again. No other plumbing problems and all is good now.
Thought I would pass this along for those that might have to winterize. The Tech at the shop said not all manufactures use these filters in their water systems anymore. Just something you might look for when winterizeing.