cmagers1
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Things have been going so good for so long I haven?t posted for a while?
We now have a 2010 Keystone Bullet 256RBS. A few weeks ago we were packing up and ready to pull over to the dump station. When I pulled forward one of the leveling boards flipped up and broke the 3? waste pipe off. It broke the flange off at the tee between the gray and black tanks. Needless to say we couldn?t dump the tanks.
After arriving home I removed the corrugated belly cover and removed the spray foam insulation around the valves. Taking a long shot we epoxied the broken pipe back in place. Fortunately it held long enough to dump the tanks.
I didn?t trust the epoxy for the long term so I removed the tee and repaired it with a fiberglass repair kit. This tee is stronger than new. The problem we?re having now is getting the tee and valves back in place. The arrangement is the black tank is in the rear, then the black waste valve, then the tee, then the gray waste valve then the gray tank. We placed the gray waste valve and tee in place and made the attachment. Now there is not enough room to slide the black waste valve in place. We?ve tried prying the tee and black tank apart but it just doesn?t want to spread enough to get the valve in. We?ve gotten the valve in three times but each time the seals are dislodged and it leaks. I?m thinking we need to loosen the gray or black tank but laying under the trailer with the belly cover half in place we can?t see how to loosen either tank enough to get the 3/8? to 1/2? we need to get the valve in without dislodging the seals.
I picked up a porta-jack this afternoon. I?m thinking about using that to get the space we need.
As always, we appreciate any thoughts or comments you may have.
Thanks,
Charlie
We now have a 2010 Keystone Bullet 256RBS. A few weeks ago we were packing up and ready to pull over to the dump station. When I pulled forward one of the leveling boards flipped up and broke the 3? waste pipe off. It broke the flange off at the tee between the gray and black tanks. Needless to say we couldn?t dump the tanks.
After arriving home I removed the corrugated belly cover and removed the spray foam insulation around the valves. Taking a long shot we epoxied the broken pipe back in place. Fortunately it held long enough to dump the tanks.
I didn?t trust the epoxy for the long term so I removed the tee and repaired it with a fiberglass repair kit. This tee is stronger than new. The problem we?re having now is getting the tee and valves back in place. The arrangement is the black tank is in the rear, then the black waste valve, then the tee, then the gray waste valve then the gray tank. We placed the gray waste valve and tee in place and made the attachment. Now there is not enough room to slide the black waste valve in place. We?ve tried prying the tee and black tank apart but it just doesn?t want to spread enough to get the valve in. We?ve gotten the valve in three times but each time the seals are dislodged and it leaks. I?m thinking we need to loosen the gray or black tank but laying under the trailer with the belly cover half in place we can?t see how to loosen either tank enough to get the 3/8? to 1/2? we need to get the valve in without dislodging the seals.
I picked up a porta-jack this afternoon. I?m thinking about using that to get the space we need.
As always, we appreciate any thoughts or comments you may have.
Thanks,
Charlie