Hello from Illinois

[jshafe65]

Hi everyone. New to the Coachman Chaparral 5th wheels. Ours is a 2011 310RLTS. Would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction on the correct way to use the fresh water tank fill when a pressurized water source is not available. I was accustomed to using the 5-gallon jugs to fill our previous campers but this one does not have a gravity fill spout. I was told that by connecting a short hose to the city water connection port and then turning on the water pump I would be able to then suck the water out of the 5-gallon jugs. I tried this and it did not work. I did have the valves in the correct position for tank fill. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[SeaDog]

Welcome to the forum its a great place to get your questions answered. Try using the search function at the upper right you should be able to read about it there.

[geeman53]

Welcome from SW Ohio ,enjoy your Coachman 5thwheel !

[Wattsworld]

Welcome to the forum from Missouri. Congratulations on the 2011 310RLTS. You should be able to answer all your questions in here.
Happy camping and safe travels to you.

[prairiecamper]

Welcome to the forums from Manitoba!

If you have an outside shower capability and a winterization valve nearby you can select the valve to winterization insert the hose that you would normally use for the plumbing anti freeze into your potable water jug, attach the outside shower hose end into the city/gravity port that you would use if you had a outside (city) pressure source, turn on your rv pump and the water should flow into your rv potable water tank. This is assuming you have a setup similar to this! good luck.

[Iwannacamp]

IMO if you don't have a water supply(city) then you will be forced to improvise/use funnel to get it water or get a water pump 12V or whatever to pump the water in.

something like this to get some volume... they ain't real cheap
https://www.amazon.com/Pressure-Diap...12v+water+pump

I am no expert as I just used a water hose from a city source.

[Iwannacamp]

... and welcome from Arkansas

[jshafe65]

Thanks everyone for the replies!! Happy camping to all.

[rockfordroo]

Originally Posted by jshafe65

Hi everyone. New to the Coachman Chaparral 5th wheels. Ours is a 2011 310RLTS. Would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction on the correct way to use the fresh water tank fill when a pressurized water source is not available. I was accustomed to using the 5-gallon jugs to fill our previous campers but this one does not have a gravity fill spout. I was told that by connecting a short hose to the city water connection port and then turning on the water pump I would be able to then suck the water out of the 5-gallon jugs. I tried this and it did not work. I did have the valves in the correct position for tank fill. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

He should have said "antifreeze port" not "city water" port.

But it doesn't fill your FW tank. It just uses the 5 gal jugs as the FW tank.

BUT: If your FW tank fill is normally done with a valve from your city water connection AND you're plumbed right, you can remove your outside shower head, replace it with a fitting that will fit onto your city water connection, then pump the 5 gal jugs from the anti-freeze connection through the pump and plumbing to your outside shower to your city water inlet and then into you FW tank as usual. This is if the valve to fill the FW tank is a 3-way valve that isolates the city water from the rest of the RV plumbing.

If you have a normal 2-way valve from city water to the FW tank, you may not need the outside showerhead thing. You would simply be running pump water backwards to the FW tank valve.