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quote:Originally posted by 1Happycamper
I also have this problem,but not all the time. When the water does not spray in the tank I get water dripping into our storage area which is telling me the check valve is leaking. I've looked at my water lines and it will be easy to by-pass the check valve.
Bill
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The check valve does 3 things
- Keeps YOUR brown stuff out of OUR clear stuff
- Meets some backflow prevention water requirement somewhere
- Prevents your tank from siphoning back out the fill.
The first one bothers me, and the third one should bother you. If you bypass the valve - as you travel down the road the slosh in the tank is actually pushing up the flush hose towards the check valve just like starting a siphon. If there is no valve it will continue to the fill fitting in your convenience center. Once it gets there, the siphon starts, and you open your cabinet door to about 40 gallons of your brown that has drippled or shot out the fill connection into you convenvenience center and is now dripping out of your basement into the belly and then onto the ground.
