The valve is designed to let pressured city water enter the rv s plumbing system when hooked to a charged hose bib via your water hose in an rv park and prevent the water pump from pumping water out of your potable water tank onto the ground when not hooked to a charged hose bib.
Rv fresh water tank fill valve.
If your water pump is cycling without using water in the coach you may have a bad check valve.
For those just entering the rv lifestyle there is a check valve behind your city water hook up.
Most systems will have a gravity feed while newer models have a switch over valve for filling the tank from a city water fill station.
There should be a drain near your fresh water intake valve that allows the fresh water tank to drain on the ground before you refill the tank.
Plastic construction is durable.
Our atwood fill supply valve leaks by and overflows the water tank.
Sometimes water can pick up a smell when it s been stored for a while.
Reply crawford overton august 27 2019 at 7 41 pm.
I set my regulator at 45 psi.
Either a quick fill valve is left open or is faulty or the check valve in the outlet side of the water pump has failed.
The valve has 1 2 and 3 8 diameter barb thread for use with vinyl tubing.
Most all older valves come apart and can be repaired.
If this is the case you can drain the fresh water tank and run water with a small bit of bleach through your system.
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This drain valve with flange lets you easily drain your rv s fresh water tank.
I put a regulator on it and haven t had a problem since.
Solution was to take the valve apart not as hard as it sounds and replace the worn out gasket inside.
If the rv is equipped with a valve to fill the fresh water tank from the city water hookup often times that valve will leak allowing city water into the tank.