creating an instruction & maintenance manual

Re: Item #4 Water pump & water tank (pump location on different models, location of the switch)

I carry minimum water in my tanks, only enough to flush toilets and wash hands, I have never believed in burning gas hauling water around, and plan accordingly  when dry camping.

Consider a gallon of fresh water weights 8.34 lbs and in the case of our R-pod 177 with 36 gallons full  on board that is 300.24 lbs in the rear that is affecting the handling characteristics of the TV.

When I was bringing the trailer home I was experiencing considerable bouncing, my TV was a Chevy 1/2 ton with helper springs, it was short distance so I did not use equalizer hitch.

When I investigated what was causing the ride I realized  the fresh water tank was full to the top, something the previous owner had done, well I promptly drained the tank. 

Let me get to the topic after arriving at the campsite I hooked up the hose to the city water connection and turned it on and forgot about it, when it came time to leave I recognized that water was leaking out of the tank filler and the tank was full again. Totally perplexed I started to surmise that the factory had done something wrong in the piping. I traced it back to the water pump which has an strainer (not easy to access) which under the maintenance section needs to be cleaned out or will cause low flow and leak back "filling up when hooked up to city water" by the way the strainer was full of construction debris from the factory. Check your strainer! before the inconvenience and $ of the RV garage.