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Fresh water tank hose attachment

Can anyone explain what the extra valve is in the attached picture?
Is this to bypass the water hose when city water is hooked up?
If so why would that be nessesary ?
Peter    Alberta Canada
'98 U320 40'  Build 5359 M11 450 HP, Aqua hot, Blu Ox

Re: Fresh water tank hose attachment

Reply #1 –
It's not OEM someone added it for some reason, but I have no idea why.
Peter and Frieda Morin
1999 36ft. U320 Foretravel
Build # 5436
1998 Suzuki Sidekick Sport

Re: Fresh water tank hose attachment

Reply #2 –
 If you have a hose failure on the reel you could hook up a standard RV hose as some of those hose reels take a special end on the hose. That valve looks like a 2 way valve, that is turn the handle 1 way for reel supply and the other way for the other side for the supply. This would be a get by till you could get a replacement hose.

Mike
Pamela & Mike 97 U 320

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
 

Re: Fresh water tank hose attachment

Reply #3 –
Yup, "belt and suspenders" approach to city water.  Connect city water to that port OR through the OE hose reel hose.
Brett Wolfe
EX: 1993 U240
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