Fresh water tank pump not pumping

Please don't mix bleach and vinegar. Doing so releases chlorine gas, and you don't want that.
I wasn't suggesting mixing the 2 directly but just curious, how many parts per million would it take to be a problem?

Forest River, under Sanitation: "The requirement is for 2 ounces of bleach per 15 gallons of tank size."

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Then that would be drained and flushed. Quite likely to be with chlorinated water.

The water in my home is chlorinated and we use vinegar for all kinds of things, including straight and then that is dumped down the drain, just like millions of other households, for decades.
 
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The concentration used for sanitization of "stuff" is much higher than the concentration in chlorinated drinking water.

You also have to look at the bleach you are using. Some off brands are as low as 2% sodium hypochlorite, normal bleach used to be 5-6%, and now most good brands are up to 8.5-9%. Going off "x cups of bleach per x gallons of water" does not always apply correctly, and if the bleach bottle isn't read carefully so that you know the concentration, you might end up with a tank that's not properly sanitized from using 2% at a concentration of 2 ounces in 15 gallons.

Typical 5% bleach should be used at 1/3 cup per 5 gallons for sanitization. That's a long way off from 2 ounces per 15 gallons of water. Again, I'm not saying you or FR is wrong, I'm going off of my training in chemistry and from my many years in the food service industry - the health department cares a lot about what you have in your 3 vessel sink and in your spray bottles when they come in for surprise inspections.

To sanitize drinking water, it's 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons, and you let that sit for 60 minutes. And in this "sit time", the chlorine goes away pretty quickly, in fact a lot of city water facilities are switching away from chlorination because it is effective for such a short time and going with chloramination (combination of chlorine and ammonia, please don't mix these at home either!). You might be surprised to find with some proper testing (not simple pool water strips) you have zero or near zero chlorine in your tap water, but regardless it's going to be too low to cause you to die from chlorine gas in your house. If you've ever had pet fish in a fish tank, you know to either let your fresh water sit for a day before adding fish, or you have the drops to remove the chlorine, but either way it does not stick around.

My post was simply to ensure people are careful. I was not picking on you.
 
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For the record, vinegar too, comes in different concentrations.

Never hurts to have a safety reminder.
 
I saw that you started by blowing the water out of your system before trying to add the AF.
As a thought for you, this is my procedure:
1. bypass the WH.
2. Blow water out of the system thru both the low point drains and each water faucet.
3. Pump AF thru system with some AF exiting each faucet.
4. blow AF back out of system using air thru the low point drains. I made hoses to connect to the drains and capture the AF back into the jugs it came in. Then blow more air thru each faucet.

I then use some of the recaptured AF in each drain on my rig. I loose about 3/4 gallon each year and reuse any left over AF the next year (not that AF is expensive, I'm just naturally a conservationist.).
I've read of a number of campers who claim to be able to taste the AF in their system after leaving the AF in over the winter. I don;t know if my process really affects this issue, but I've never been able to taste AF after sanitizing my water system at the beginning of the new season.
 
I know I am in the minority but since my Northern Spirit doesn't have a winterizing valve I do it the old fashioned way. I would have to take a lot of the trailer apart to get to the water pump to add a valve. If the pump ever goes out and I have to replace it I will likely add the valve.
I put 5 gal in the fresh tank and that is enough to flush the lines. I from the generally start with the faucet I think is farthest from the pump.
As far as de-winterizing, I drain all of the lines for about 15 minutes. I drain the antifreeze from the tank and do 2-3 rinses with about 5 gal of water each. There is no reason to fill it further since any residual is in the bottom anyway. After rinsing the tank I will put 5-10 gal in and flush the lines. If there is no taste or smell to the water at that point everything is finished. You can take a step further and add a couple of Tbls. of bleach to the tank when filling it. Run this through the lines and let them sit for 15 minutes.
 
I'm in south Florida so I don't have to worry with winterizing unless I travel north in the winter.

I do have some questions for those with recently built campers.
1. How do you flush the water intake line between the fresh water tank and the water pump?
2. If you have a Water Miser valve, how do you know you've run enough AF with the valve set to the water saver position to protect that return line?
 

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