Sunday, August 16, 2015

Bio Break on Shake Down Road

It was a great park in Tulsa, OK and after the shakedown road a welcome retreat.  We delt with what we thought was all the small things that shook loose and all was great.  A day later I took my 4 mile walk and was feeling smug and self-satisfied when a gentleman says to me, “looks like you have break fluid coming from the back of your unit”. Really, this did not sound good so I immediately rushed in and told David what the man indicated which led us both to look at the undercarriage to find nothing coming from there but something did smell might sweet, like the magic pellets we put in the toilets to allow all that good bacteria to eat the bio waste. Yep, a very strong odor.  Open the back bay where the back toilet tank sits..hmmm guess the whole plumbing unit should not be sitting in the middle of the bay in blue water and dissolving toilet paper.
Now for the good news: we had for some reason at the beginning of the trip said..lets only do liquid into the toilets not solid until we see how everything works and ensure the first dump of the tanks work…so at least it was only liquid bio, dissolving toilet paper with a lot of water and the blue stuff. We hosed down the bay (our version of dumping the tank) and put the plumbing back to gather as best we could with yes..DUCK TAPE. Duck tape comes to the rescue.
We are now using only the front toilet that in itself has issues with the unit not holding waster in the bowl to allow for better flushing but at least all the plumbing is in tact. We are sticking with our liquid only till we have it serviced at the factory on Wednesday.
I will tell you we laughed a lot as we delt with what every RVer hopes to never have to deal with, but some time or other we all do. We do believe that the grass there will be greener and grow better with the fertilizer we hosed in.


Hope it holds for a while

This should be "set into the floor of the bay, not sitting up on it
We have this put back, not sure how it will hold




Clean up, it has to happen

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