RP177 antifreeze intake hose
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Topic: RP177 antifreeze intake hose
Posted By: JGF2
Subject: RP177 antifreeze intake hose
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2014 at 6:44pm
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Does anyone know where to find the antifreeze intake hose on the RP177 model? I thought it should be inside the trailer located somewhere on the incoming line in front of the water pump, but that line appears only comes from the outside at the fresh water tank. ------------- JGF2 |
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Posted By: shroomer
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2014 at 7:48pm
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There's a shutoff on the main water supply side and an auxiliary hose connected on the other side of the pump that you dip into the antifreeze bottle. This is found under the kitchen sink lower panel. There are great directions all prepared in this forum. Search or wait a few minutes and someone will give you the link. ------------- Larry and Debbie w/Rosie the mutt. Old: '13 177, '06 Silverado V6 New: '15 Whitehawk 20MRB '14 Silverado V8 |
Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2014 at 7:50pm
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What year is your 177? Older ones have the hose in line attached to a 3 way valve near the pump. Later ones (sometime in the 2013 run) have it loose, usually near the water heater, and have a quick disconnect right on the side of the pump.You unhook the line from the holding tank, and hookup the one for anti freeze. ------------- |
Posted By: JGF2
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2014 at 11:10am
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Thanks for the help, ours is a 2012 and your answer is exactly the situation for the quick disconnect. The vendor we bought it from forgot to leave the antifreeze line in the rig, so I'll get one. ------------- JGF2 |
Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2014 at 3:05pm
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Before you contact the dealer, try looking in the area under the bed, where the water heater and heater are. Many have found the loose hose in there, if not under the sink, or in the front storage area under the dinette.. It wouldn't be the vendor or dealer that puts it in the pod, it's done during the build.
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Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2014 at 9:25pm
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Instead of using antifreeze and giving your water tank a nasty aftertaste will will be a bit problematic to remove you may want to use an air compressor to blow out your lines instead. We have done this the past 2 winters with no problems and it only takes a couple of minutes to do the whole thing. I will use about 24 oz. of antifreeze for the 3 traps in our 177 however.
------------- God's pod '11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2014 at 10:14pm
Actually, if using the pump pick up winterizing tube, you don't put any anti freeze in the water holding tank.. that is the whole point of the tube feeding the system at the pump. As far as nasty after taste, I can honestly say, if you are sanitizing the system at the start of the season the way you should, no after taste ever in our campers. ------------- |
Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 9:26am
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Mark, thanks for the update. I wasn't aware of this option, must be on the 2012 models or newer as we don't have this on our 2011 unit.
------------- God's pod '11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
Posted By: kymooses
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 11:12am
My pod that was manufactured in 2010 has it. ------------- https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cnBvZC5zcG90dGVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ - RPod Rallies https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1W1foQXGtrjf8aYly1uh0b-bHPfI&hl=en_US - RPod Owner Map |
Posted By: ron_whitt
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 12:47pm
JGF, we have a 2012 177, ours has a 3way valve with hose (my rv place had it hooked up when we bought the pod) and as has been stated just turn the valve inline so the pump sucks from the antifreeze and Bob's your uncle.... No antifreeze gets into your fresh water tank this way. I do both when winterizing, I blow out my lines, with taps open, then using pump pull RV antifreeze until I see pink coming out of all taps (turning one tap on at a time.) Maybe overkill but only takes 30 minutes tops, likely less  never timed it.. Every spring sanatize your fresh water tank as the manual says and you have no problem with your fresh water.
------------- Ron & Shirley 2020 Tacoma 2012 177 rpod |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 1:23pm
Yes, they all have it. ------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 4:14pm
So far NO pod has been found to be without a winterization hose. We have had a hard time talking a few people into finding them over the internet. But there is a factory winterization hose of either the type with the 3 way valve, or the quick disconnect, on every pod so far as I/we can tell. If you have a 2011 177, just as I have, the hose should be attached to the line between the pump and the holding tank, right next to the pump, under the sink. I don't think anyone has reported a quick disconnect before the 2012 models. here is a picture of the one in our 177:  Note that you must remove a panel to get to it. . ------------- |
Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2014 at 8:20pm
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Silly me for not using the KISS method (keep it simple stupid). Indeed our unit is exactly the same as what Mark has posted above. And I did err when I made the comment of anti-freeze in the water tank, that is simply not true and I know that. BUT I do know that the anti-freeze does leave a nasty taste in the plastic water lines (if you have sensitive taste buds like my wife and I) and does take a bit of effort to rid the lines of that flavor; in our case the first year we winterized in October and didn't de-winterize till the following April, so it had nearly 7 months to permeate the plastic. That is why for the past 2 years we have simply used compressed air to blow out the lines, it only takes a couple minutes and you are done, nothing to do in the spring except to turn your 3 valves back to the open position.
------------- God's pod '11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2014 at 10:18pm
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