BlackJeep22's Concord 300 DS Newbee Questions

[wahoonc]

Originally Posted by BlackJeep22

I'll give it a shot today, hopefully. I watched a couple videos where a guy spliced into his on-board water pump lines, hooked up an electrical on/off toggle switch, etc. This would be GREAT if it's already set up.

So how do you get chlorinated water in your FW tank, if you don't use this external pump switch and a bucket?

City water is chlorinated and will stay good for several weeks. One of the reasons I don't drink it or use it to make coffee.

I have access at home to both city water (treated) and well water (untreated). We use the well water for drinking and cooking. We fill up a couple of gallon containers for drinking purposes. If it runs out we buy gallons of drinking water. I don't have a problem with drinking water out of a properly sanitized RV system, just don't like the plastic flavor it picks up.

Aaron

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by wahoonc

City water is chlorinated and will stay good for several weeks. One of the reasons I don't drink it or use it to make coffee.

I have access at home to both city water (treated) and well water (untreated). We use the well water for drinking and cooking. We fill up a couple of gallon containers for drinking purposes. If it runs out we buy gallons of drinking water. I don't have a problem with drinking water out of a properly sanitized RV system, just don't like the plastic flavor it picks up.

Aaron

Gotcha! Thanks Aaron. Any idea what the full capacity is of our FW tank?

[wahoonc]

47 or 49 gallons... I figure whole system is just over 55 gallons with the water heater, lines and tank filled.


Aaron

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by wahoonc

47 or 49 gallons... I figure whole system is just over 55 gallons with the water heater, lines and tank filled.


Aaron

Thanks Aaron... Have a great day.

[BlackJeep22]

My first modification, aside from removing that sewer "swing out contraption".

2 - 4 foot sections of 5" square PVC fence posts. Easily stores both 10' sections of sewer lines.

[wahoonc]

Nice job! I think I am going to go the 6" thin wall PVC route, mainly because I have a bunch of it all ready laying around. We are headed to the lake (state park) this weekend. Only planned mod is converting full beer bottles to empty beer bottles.

Waiting on some cooler weather to get here so we can REALLY start camping!

Aaron

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by wahoonc

Nice job! I think I am going to go the 6" thin wall PVC route, mainly because I have a bunch of it all ready laying around. We are headed to the lake (state park) this weekend. Only planned mod is converting full beer bottles to empty beer bottles.

Waiting on some cooler weather to get here so we can REALLY start camping!

Aaron

Thanks Aaron. I looked around Home Depot for round thin walled, but didn't see any. One of my favorite things is emptying out those damn full beer bottles. Have fun at the lake.

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by wahoonc

The pump is so you can pull antifreeze into the system when you are winterizing (at least that is how I think it works, I missed that part of the class too. )

Aaron

Well, I finally got around to trying to put some bleach water in my fresh water tank for sanitizing. Turns out that Pump Switch (inside the water station door) is exactly the same switch as the one inside the coach on the control panel. It does NOT pump water into the fresh water tank. I think this switch is just so you can control running water through the faucets (inside) without actually going inside and pressing the pump switch. I was hopeful that this was a well thought out "built-in" pump for pumping anti-freeze or bleach water into the fresh water tank.

As a result, I decided to just order this for now, to pull my 4 gallons of bleach water into the fresh water tank.

I should have read the reviews a little closer, this may just be junk. If it is, I think I'll go with this little guy.

[jjSpeedwagon]

Originally Posted by BlackJeep22

Well, I finally got around to trying to put some bleach water in my fresh water tank for sanitizing. Turns out that Pump Switch (inside the water station door) is exactly the same switch as the one inside the coach on the control panel. It does NOT pump water into the fresh water tank. I think this switch is just so you can control running water through the faucets (inside) without actually going inside and pressing the pump switch. I was hopeful that this was a well thought out "built-in" pump for pumping anti-freeze or bleach water into the fresh water tank.

As a result, I decided to just order this for now, to pull my 4 gallons of bleach water into the fresh water tank.

You ninnies. Lmao. The pump switch outside is to turn the pump on for outdoor shower. :roflb lack:

[jjSpeedwagon]

Hey have ya'll been sneaking peaks at this?

[jjSpeedwagon]

That is one bad ***** bus. Look it up on MHSRV motor home and watch video

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by jjSpeedwagon

You ninnies. Lmao. The pump switch outside is to turn the pump on for outdoor shower. :roflb lack:

GOOD ONE John! I still don't have my manuals, but called AGAIN today and apparently my dealer has a 2015 Concord 300 DS on the lot and he's going to rob the manuals out of it until mine arrive. It's been hard flying blind.

On another note... I went on to Forest River's website today and they don't list the Concord under their Class Cs any more. Just the Forester and Sunseeker.

[jjSpeedwagon]

I never really got a manual with mine. It was like a generic forest river manual. And a huge stack of individual component manual. We had an awesome tech walk us threw our concord about 5 hrs. We spent night at MHSRV dealer. I think coachmen is turning into a rv strength again. It is under forest River but coachmen does its own thing. That bus above is coachmen and it can compete with best of them I think and price doesn't knock ya down. We don't want class A. But it's nice to see coachmen puttin it out there

[jjSpeedwagon]

Also I think officially we are a B + even though we're 33 ft long. Think it's because we don't have bunk over cab

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by jjSpeedwagon

Also I think officially we are a B + even though we're 33 ft long. Think it's because we don't have bunk over cab

I thought the same thing, but on another forum, after I referred to it as a B+... said I didn't know the difference between a B and a C.

I got my Blue Ox baseplate today and saw that the price dropped on the ReadyBrute Elite on Amazon, so ordered it and the clevises today. Also finally got plates today. Look out... We're hittin' the road soon.

[jjSpeedwagon]

Originally Posted by BlackJeep22

I thought the same thing, but on another forum, after I referred to it as a B+... said I didn't know the difference between a B and a C.

I got my Blue Ox baseplate today and saw that the price dropped on the ReadyBrute Elite on Amazon, so ordered it and the clevises today. Also finally got plates today. Look out... We're hittin' the road soon.

Yea Baby !!! Won't belong. You gonna do the install? Base plate kind of pain on jeep not bad. You have to pull front bumper off and cut the plastic rock shield little bit. Don't forget to use lock tight on your base plate bolts. Very important. There good vids on you tube

[jjSpeedwagon]

Bet it was irv2 forum. If you don't agree with the few on there they will smack ya. Lol. I don't care for that forum

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by jjSpeedwagon

Yea Baby !!! Won't belong. You gonna do the install? Base plate kind of pain on jeep not bad. You have to pull front bumper off and cut the plastic rock shield little bit. Don't forget to use lock tight on your base plate bolts. Very important. There good vids on you tube

Yup, planning on doing everything myself. I'm a retired engineer, but worked a couple years in a shop as a machinist in my younger days. This should be a piece of cake. The wiring was my only red flag, but that Hopkins kit should be a piece of cake too. Thanks for all the help John.

[BlackJeep22]

Originally Posted by jjSpeedwagon

Bet it was irv2 forum. If you don't agree with the few on there they will smack ya. Lol. I don't care for that forum

It was.

[jjSpeedwagon]

Anytime. Steve