Winterizing

Bill, thanks for that great diagram!  Just printed it out to put in my Pod folder for future reference!

Not fast enough.  The water was all out and all over me before I knew it!  Cold too!

I wrote a note to myself to make sure the pressure was off the system before removing the anode.  I hope to not get a facefull three years in a row.

Mystery solved - - recall the Nat'l Guard !! It was 2 things that caused the vanishing 4 gallons of antifreeze. First (and foremost) the low level drain caps were off. I had taken them off when I blew the system out with the air compressor and had forgotten to put them back on. The reason I didn't notice that sooner was that I was inside the camper during the antifreeze uptake process and the low level valves are behind my drivers side wheel    ...so I now have a patch of dead grass that is good to -50 degrees:-)

The second thing was that one of the bypass valves - - not the hotwater tank input/out line valves    ...the other one.

Once I got the drain caps on and oriented the valve correctly the system pressurized using the pump with the drop line sticking in the antifreez jug I had pink stuff flowing out of all faucets in seconds.

Thanks to everyone who offered advice and information. In the end what helped me most was going out there with a clear head and fresh eyes, doing a diagram of the plumbing and then going forward from there.

Note to self     ...DOCUMENT the hell out of this for next year :-)

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Originally posted by rex WHAT IS ALL THIS TALK ABOUT WINTERIZING.I AM ON MY WAY TO THE LAKE TO WATCH WV TAKE ON TEXAS GO WVA,ITS CLOUDY HERE TODAY LOW 80,HAPPY TRAILS TO ALL rex pHp stuart fla

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Just be happy you can. Snowing here and below freezing. This camper is gonna watch the game of his choice (Wyoming/Nevada) from the comfort of his living room :-)

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