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campdaddy

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Posted: 11/02/09 05:44pm

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Chuck_S wrote:

Standard RV tank sensors are notorious for false readings. The tanks may indeed be empty with just a slight bit of water in them. ........ A slight amount of water in there can freeze harmlessly. Not so in the closed confines of your pipes and valves.

-- Chuck

That's one of things that has concerned me -water in the tanks settling into the valve areas and then freezing and damaging the valves. This last winterizing, I emptied the tanks completely....nothing more coming out not even dripping. when I pulled it back to the parking place I checked with a bucket and sure enough another gallon from each tank came out. Enough to freeze and damage the valves. What I did was drain this residual water out and then poured additional antifreeze into the tanks.

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