Fresh water tank refill

[n0ms]

Find the hose for the fresh water tank vent See if the hose is in a loop and hooked to nothing or hooked to the vent above the water inlet. It should be hooked to the vent above the water inlet. If it's hooked correctly. See if you can blow thru the vent to check for blockage. Good luck.

[hicksie]

I normally only put in a few gallons so we can use the toilet while travelling. In only fill the tank if we are at an isolated park that lacks water hook up

[Wolverine 1945]

Originally Posted by eric248

Ok I need your guys help again, trying to refill my fresh water tank on my 2017 Wildwood and for some reason I can't get any more than one third tank water full water just keep coming out the spout tried changing the volume of water going in hasn't worked

If you search this problem here,,, you will find several pages of ides on how to fill FW tanks !!! Must fill slowly & make sure air vent is clear,,, I stick about a 2' hose in mine,,, with no end on it,,, turn water on slowly,,, and have a cold one !
or two !!! LOL !!!

[awellis3]

Originally Posted by Wolverine 1945

If you search this problem here,,, you will find several pages of ides on how to fill FW tanks !!! Must fill slowly & make sure air vent is clear,,, I stick about a 2' hose in mine,,, with no end on it,,, turn water on slowly,,, and have a cold one !
or two !!! LOL !!!

May I add one more thing? Grab your levelers (we use the Lynx blocks) and jack up the filler side of the trailer. This ensures that the filler pipe where it enters the tank is always above the water level in the tank as it gets close to being filled. Fixed my problem 100%.

[floridela]

Originally Posted by markb422

What johnshoe said in post #12. The fill hose rises between the fill port and the fwt so a gravity fill will not get over the hump because water will not run uphill. Make a fill tube long enough to go almost all the way into the fwt. Cut the end on an angle so it will easily snake through the fill tube.

Ditto on everything both said, I had a Cedar Creek with the same problem. And for the last 8 yrs or so, I had a piece of 3/4 inch clear plastic tubing that had a 1/4 turn plastic valve at the end connected to the water hose feed. I would snake the 24 to 30 inch plastic tubing (bought at home depot), with a angle cut at the end, into the fresh water opening. I would do this first twisting and turning it till it went in past the dip in the line. I could then open up the water pressure and fill the tank with no problems and at any feed you want. I just traded my Cedar Creek and I left the hose with instructions for the new owners so they would not be writing in and asking what do I do to fill the fresh water tank.

[Wolverine 1945]

Originally Posted by awellis3

May I add one more thing? Grab your levelers (we use the Lynx blocks) and jack up the filler side of the trailer. This ensures that the filler pipe where it enters the tank is always above the water level in the tank as it gets close to being filled. Fixed my problem 100%.

I can see where that would sure help !!!
For us & our MH it would not be a easy thing to do,,, because we have to have the drivers side on 6" blocks already so it is level !!! I also carry a short plastic hose that I can use to blow into the air vent,,, to make sure it is clear !!!
Also not sure if anyone brought up the fact that
vent screen must be clean !!!

[jeff64]

I took a slightly different approach to this last year and it works! I fully agree either the vent tube is kinked or has a loop that traps a small amount of water preventing the venting through the tube. I went to the trouble of pulling the filler plate and looking inside the wall area, pulling a air vent below the oven and looking inside and I can tell you the tube above the floor is not an issue. The cause ( on mine) is below the floor level. From the number of posts regarding pulling the coroplast and or tank supports which will be a royal PIA, I'm not the first to consider this as the location of the root cause.

My thoughts involve sealing the fill hose to the opening, this is my final answer before pulling the coroplast and opening yet another can of worms. It's your basic water bandit (wet the end and seal it to the opening), a double female garden hose coupler and the rest you can see. As you start to fill, and in a very short time span, you get a small blast of water out of the vent as the air pressure builds, clears the "water plug" and then nothing but air until the vent tube clears, the tank fills and then the water comes back out the vent as you would expect. Pull the hoses and let it leak out the excess. Take the time to verify that the tube isn' t totally clogged for some reason, mine was not!
I have a tie wrap on the refrig vent and use a wire between it and the hose so I dont have to stand there and wait till it fills. Give it a try, works for me!

[rockfordroo]

Originally Posted by jeff64

I took a slightly different approach to this last year and it works! I fully agree either the vent tube is kinked or has a loop that traps a small amount of water preventing the venting through the tube. I went to the trouble of pulling the filler plate and looking inside the wall area, pulling a air vent below the oven and looking inside and I can tell you the tube above the floor is not an issue. The cause ( on mine) is below the floor level. From the number of posts regarding pulling the coroplast and or tank supports which will be a royal PIA, I'm not the first to consider this as the location of the root cause.

My thoughts involve sealing the fill hose to the opening, this is my final answer before pulling the coroplast and opening yet another can of worms. It's your basic water bandit (wet the end and seal it to the opening), a double female garden hose coupler and the rest you can see. As you start to fill, and in a very short time span, you get a small blast of water out of the vent as the air pressure builds, clears the "water plug" and then nothing but air until the vent tube clears, the tank fills and then the water comes back out the vent as you would expect. Pull the hoses and let it leak out the excess. Take the time to verify that the tube isn' t totally clogged for some reason, mine was not!
I have a tie wrap on the refrig vent and use a wire between it and the hose so I dont have to stand there and wait till it fills. Give it a try, works for me!

You could also replace the gravity fill port with threaded on and screw on the fill hose, although this can make it more difficult to fill the tank in boondocking situations.

[jeff64]

That's probably true Rockfordroo, but, when the tank is full, I'm good with the water pressure blowing off the water bandit from the filler opening if I don't shut it down immediatly after the vent spews water. I don't want that solid of a coupling and building excess pressure in the tank. Remember I'm flowing air through the vent(filling) and now water through the vent( tank full!) The water in the hose is going into the tank way faster than it is coming out a possibly restricted vent (kinked)

[Wolverine 1945]

Originally Posted by jeff64

I took a slightly different approach to this last year and it works! I fully agree either the vent tube is kinked or has a loop that traps a small amount of water preventing the venting through the tube. I went to the trouble of pulling the filler plate and looking inside the wall area, pulling a air vent below the oven and looking inside and I can tell you the tube above the floor is not an issue. The cause ( on mine) is below the floor level. From the number of posts regarding pulling the coroplast and or tank supports which will be a royal PIA, I'm not the first to consider this as the location of the root cause.

My thoughts involve sealing the fill hose to the opening, this is my final answer before pulling the coroplast and opening yet another can of worms. It's your basic water bandit (wet the end and seal it to the opening), a double female garden hose coupler and the rest you can see. As you start to fill, and in a very short time span, you get a small blast of water out of the vent as the air pressure builds, clears the "water plug" and then nothing but air until the vent tube clears, the tank fills and then the water comes back out the vent as you would expect. Pull the hoses and let it leak out the excess. Take the time to verify that the tube isn' t totally clogged for some reason, mine was not!
I have a tie wrap on the refrig vent and use a wire between it and the hose so I dont have to stand there and wait till it fills. Give it a try, works for me!

I use a 6' step ladder to hold mine,,, our fill is much higher than yours !!!