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Re: Please confirm waste tank valve p/n (2003, manual valves)

Reply #25 –
Quote from: Michelle –
No, he didn't.  There isn't room in a 2003 to have a third valve and be able to close the bay door when the sewer hose is connected.

I don't think there is room on most of them to do this. Mine had a 3rd valve from previous owner and I don't think I could close the door....but I don't leave a sewer line attached.
1998 U270 34'

Re: Please confirm waste tank valve p/n (2003, manual valves)

Reply #26 –
2003 ? Is that a guess, I see nothing regarding year or model.
Dave W. (AKA Toyman )
'03, 270, 36', Build 6095, Pulling whatever I hook it to.

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
Dr Seuss

Re: Please confirm waste tank valve p/n (2003, manual valves)

Reply #27 –
Quote from: Steve –
  ....................When I want to do a thorough black tank flushing,  I simply lift the dump hose up a couple of feet, leave the blank tank valve open, then open the grey tank, ... all that soapy grey water flows right in to the black tank.  Close the grey, lower the hose and re-drain the black.  Do it a couple of times, just takes seconds.  (Thanks to @John S for the trick).
Steve,
As neophytes, when we purchased our first coach (a new 1998 U270) at the Tampa FT store, they encouraged us to stay with them for at least 3 days to "learn the coach"  and to do a "fast cruise" with them.  We stayed five and then a sixth day back at the store.  They (a sales team) put us up at a premium local campground, went through a multipage "teaching" checklist, at a "four hours per day pace", over four days, including road time each day and then a day back at the shop clearing a short worklist of issues. 
Items on that "learnig" checklist included the "commonsense, but neophyte non-intuitive" backflushing of the black tank and black valve with grey water "lube", twice, each dump cycle, by elevating the dump hose.  No extra hardware, no extra maintenance or expense - KISS KISS.
They also taught us in each dump cycle to close the black tank valve ONLY when there is strong grey water flow going INTO the black tank, again by elevating the dump hose, in order to be sweeping  any entrained solids back into the black tank rather than trapping solids in the gate valve seating surfaces as one is closing the black valve. Another KISS.
Each day of "fast cruise" learning, there was time allotted to "new information", "practical factors" i.e. - show me "how to do"/"or where things are" that I taught you yesterday, and a "free for all Q&A period".  Graduation was a "dinner out, on the company store" the last day.
Those two dump hose lessons (and dozens upon dozens more neophyte-owner coach lessons) have served us well and are vividly recalled, even 17 years later. 
Much better, they made us instant brand and company loyal advocates, anxious to spread the word and our pride in our decision as well as being extremely confident that we had made the right choice.
It was a very nice way to start off "FT Motorcoaching".
BY THE WAY, that was very much the polar opposite of our recent  Nac purchase of our second FT coach last October, where the consigning owner and we ended up disappointed and on nonspeaking terms over at least a dozen unresolved Nac/FT issues that continue even today. 
Our attempts to elevate those issues within FT have repeatedly fallen on deaf ears.  I guess that we have become small peanuts in today's FT "bottom-line" world.
We eventually just gave up and chalked the dozen issues up to a "shift in FT customer satisfaction goals" and a shift in "FT coach bucks decimal points" -- lessons (re)learned.
Neal


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Neal (& Brenda) Pillsbury
'02 U320 SPEC, 4200, DGFE, Build #5984
'04 Gold Wing
'07 Featherlite 24'
'14 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit
MC #14494
Exeter, NH & LaBelle FL
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Re: Please confirm waste tank valve p/n (2003, manual valves)

Reply #28 –
Quote from: toyman –
2003 ? Is that a guess, I see nothing regarding year or model.

Not sure what you're asking.
Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!  - John C. Bogle

2000 U320 36' non-slide / WildEBeest Rescue
2003 U320

Re: Please confirm waste tank valve p/n (2003, manual valves)

Reply #29 –
I have this image of Steve standing, holding the sewer hose to "flush" his black tank and something bad happens.  Think Robin Williams in RV.  Just sayin.......
Tom & Bill

2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee