Starting The RV Black Tank Repair... Today...

 What fun... nothing like mucking out a barn to shine up a day... likely... mucking out an RV Waste tank will be as great a Shining Time...

Back at our semi-boondocking 'camp' North of Nunn... Today, the sun is shining... and I don't go to 'work' till one thirty... so I'll start peeling off the RV belly pan this morning... 'cause Thursday, it's supposed to be raining... or snowing... again...

We're keeping the bathroom door closed, with the vent cracked... 'cause the 'perfume' coming up from underneath is rather... objectionable...

Not sure what I'll find. I know the belly insulation is contaminated now and will require replacement... the unknown part is just how the RV Black water tank is connected up... and where it failed... What I figure is likely, is one of a couple possibilities... the first ones being that either or both of the pipes into the tank; the vent pipe and the waste pipe itself... from the toilet... are attached to the tank, with screws and seals... and one or both of those seals are faulty, at the top of the RV waste tank... allowing the 'aromatic' fluid to escape into the belly of the fifth wheel... when some dumb 'buster'... tried to stretch his dumping out... a mite too far...

The second is that there is a sealed union of some sort... somewhere else, in the main waste pipe itself, from the RV toilet, that has dried out and is allowing the leakage.

The third, which I don't believe it was that full! is that the seal of the toilet itself, to the floor, is the culprit... since there is no sign of any leakage, inside, other than that fine aroma... I'm not betting on this possibility...

... and the fourth would be some variety of alien, ABS eating, mongoloid vermin infesting our Fifth Wheel... that are eating my sewage pipes...

... so I'll pull that belly pan off... with a pistol handy :o)

anyhoo... I'll start pulling the RV Belly Pan and insulation this morning... and see what I find...

Something I need to consider, is one of the Electronic RV Tank Level Monitors... with everything stripped out from under... I'll never have a better opportunity to replace the pretty poorly performing RV factory gauge system... with one of the high tech systems that are 'corrosion' proof... I'm seriously lookin' at this outfits systems... for RV Tank Level gauges.

The fly in the ointment there, of course... is a poor man's budget... another couple of hundred bucks... for the sort of outfit I'd want... but... I'd have to do all the belly strippin'... again... down the road... if I wait...

So... guess I have till the end of the week to decide... just what I needed just now... another decision to have to make... :o)

Take Good Care
Brian

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