Water tank mounts on newer Mini Lites

[HangDiver]

Originally Posted by davejodoin

The problem with the fresh water tanks is the vent hose, it has a dip in which it does not drain, when you fill your tank, it does not vent out the hose because there is water trapped in it, by the time the pressure of the full tanks pushes out the water to vent the damage is done. The tank has ballooned out and bends the brackets. The correct fix is to make sure the vent hose has no dips in it to collect water and fill your tank slowly to allow the vent line to work correctly

With all due respect, obviously there have been problems with over filling the fresh water tank as you described above. However, if you think the vent tube not breathing properly is the only problem with tanks falling out of their supports, you're kidding yourself.

[SecurityRich]

Here's the link to the damage on my Micro Lite and the supports I installed to fix the water tank issues.

As you can see, I had 2 cross members supporting the tank and the front edge support bent. This happened on a fairly short about 1 hour trip with water tank full to test its road worthiness!

http://www.forestriverforums.com/for...ml#post1342533

[rockfordroo]

Originally Posted by HangDiver

With all due respect, obviously there have been problems with over filling the fresh water tank as you described above. However, if you think the vent tube not breathing properly is the only problem with tanks falling out of their supports, you're kidding yourself.

X2.

[SeaDog]

The vent may be part of the problem but my feeling is having a support where you have two slots cut in the angle iron across from each other is the weak link. My was bent at the slots just like everyone else.

[Crabdad]

I have a 2019 rockwood roo with the exact same water tank support set up from Forest River. when I filled the tank 40gals the supports bent and sagged. when I was traveling down the highway with an empty tank, due to the fact that the main supports were bent and sagging it allowed one of those support brackets to fall free from the frame and hit the vehicle behind me. had the tank been full it would have definitely dropped. Forest Rivers answer is DO NOT CARRY WATER in the tank. my question is why have the tank if we can't use it. This problem with the inferior support system is going to fail, a tank is going to drop on the highway and some innocent. family is going to seriously hurt or killed.

[HangDiver]

Originally Posted by Crabdad

This problem with the inferior support system is going to fail, a tank is going to drop on the highway and some innocent. family is going to seriously hurt or killed.

When I'm on my motorcycle I purposely will not ride behind an RV for this very reason. Someday someone is going to have a serious accident because of RV parts falling off on the road.