Yep, sometimes we have to eat some crow when we make our stupid mistakes but I did learn something. We went to Carter Caves State Resort Park this past weekend, enjoying the feeling of having all new tires on the Monty; got parked first try and that’s when it started going downhill.
I have the quick connect fittings in the convenience center and I quickly hooked up the water supply. I turned it on and I didn’t have any water at all. I could hear it running but we couldn’t get anything out of the faucets or anywhere in the camper. Then I started thinking I must have a leak somewhere but it wasn’t coming out anywhere. I could hear water running somewhere but it still didn’t dawn on me, like I said “a senior moment.” So I called my trusty friend “Bingo” to ask what he thought might be wrong since he used to have a 3400 model. I just thought he might know something that would help. Well he was busy so he was supposed to call me back. About this time the D/W walked up and asked “shouldn’t it be hooked up to the city water connection?” Then I knew! The grin turned into a snicker, the snicker turned into a small laugh then well you can figure out the rest. I put the water connection on the correct water supply and then everything was ok. I had it on the tank flush connection.
The good thing was that the black tank had been flushed really well before we left home. I had the black tank closed but the grey tank was opened and the sewer line all set up. OK, here is what I learned which may come in handy to know, evidently there is a point at which the vent lines tie together with the black & grey tanks before going to the roof. So at some point it had crossed over to the grey tank and was running out the sewer instead of the roof. I opened the black tank after everything was back to normal and it was full. I also think one thing that kept it from going on the roof was the water pressure was really low, lower than it used to be. I can only imagine the audience I would have had if it would have been coming out the roof. I keep thinking of the “RV” movie for some reason. Live and learn. I guess we never get too old to learn but I’m too young for senior moments!
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