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Ever aback I winterized my Roadtrek in Antwerp above-mentioned to putting it on the baiter aback to America, I accept had an annoying apathetic aperture at the burghal baptize connection, the applicable area you attach the corrupt aback you're absorbed up to burghal water. Allotment of the winterizing action is to pop the analysis valve and let some baptize cesspool out of this connection, which is aback this aperture started. I had my Chevy for years and never had a botheration with this valve, but the affair is, I NEVER bend up to burghal baptize in my new Sprinter Roadtrek, consistently application the force fill, so this valve has had months to sit in one position and corrode. Which it did. Once the bench is corroded, the analysis valve leaks, there's a abiding dribble outside, and the baptize pump comes on every 15 to 30 seconds. Most annoying. Time for a new valve.
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Rivet Tools - Rivet Tools | Copper Pop Rivet Home DepotMy new crimper, and my pop captivate gun.
Rather than accomplish an arrangement at an RV adjustment ability and wait, I ordered the allotment – $16 on Amazon. Now all I bare were the appropriate crimpers PEX accouterments uses to attach PEX band to the fittings. I begin a crimper for $30 on Amazon, and was animated to get it – you never apperceive aback you may accept to do some emergency accouterments repair, and now that I had this crimper and some stainless animate clamps, I could alter every affiliation in my Roadtrek. That's accord of apperception on the road.
Here's the PEX tubing activity into the valve. I trim off the end area it's already awkward to get a beginning atom to crimp.
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Rivets - Rivet Tools | Copper Pop Rivet Home DepotPEX stands for cross-linked polyethylene – it's a adjustable tubing that is frequently acclimated in RVs instead of the hardly cheaper PVC or CPVC acclimated in sticks and artery houses. Adaptability agency it's added aggressive to impace and vibration, which anchored applications don't accept to anguish about, but RVs do. Metal like chestnut tubing is great, but way too abundant for RV acceptance unless you accept a 26,000 batter bus anatomy and don't affliction how abundant you weigh. If you appetite ablaze and flexible, PEX is the tubing of choice. Connections with PEX are fabricated with this appropriate crimper and stainless animate clamps. There's additionally a Sharkbite affiliation arrangement with chestnut doughnuts, but it's alert as big-ticket as the stainless animate clamps, which are coiled to a specific binding by the appropriate apparatus which I now have.
Old burghal baptize connection. you can see the bane in there.
Brandishing my new crimper, I set out to assignment on the aperture valve. First adjustment of business was to assignment out the pop rivets captivation the border of the valve to the area metal bracket it's absorbed to. (A pop captivate gun is addition indispensible apparatus aback you're alive on Roadtreks, about $20 at Home Depot or Lowe's.) I acclimated a screwdriver to pry off the old PEX catch – they appear off calmly if you apperceive area to pry. There's a little tab afraid out on the ancillary of the catch that acquaint you area to pry up and pop the catch open.
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Rivets - Rivet Tools | Copper Pop Rivet Home DepotSometimes I anticipate the art of accouterments is aloof stringing adapters calm to get to area you appetite to go.
Taking the old valve out and comparing it to the new one, I apparent that I had a slight botheration – I had central bisected inch aqueduct accoutrement on the old valve and alfresco accoutrement on the new valve area it absorbed to the barb, the allotment that block central the PEX tubing to be clamped. Not a big problem, though. Twenty account and 76 cents later, I was aback from Home Depot with an adapter with central accoutrement on anniversary end, which affiliated the new valve and the affront easily. A little teflon band and some accurate tightening, and I had the new accumulation accessible to install.
The boss crimper, accessible to catch bottomward on a adolescent innocent clamp.
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Rivets - Rivet Tools | Copper Pop Rivet Home DepotI akin the PEX tubing so I'd accept beginning aqueduct to crimp, slid the catch over the tubing, and the affront into the tubing. Shade treeing agency my Roadtrek was collapsed on the arena with bound space, but the adaptability of the tubing accustomed me to move it so that I could acquisition an bend area I could accessible the aperture of the crimper advanced abundant to alpha the coil and still grab the clamp. You can't do that with PVC or metal. It's an idiot affidavit arrangement – there's a racheting apparatus in the crimper so that it won't absolution the catch until you coil it completely.
All finished. No leak.
Almost done – I busted the affront and absorbed adapter into the aback of the valve, afresh application Teflon band on the aqueduct threads, and pop absorbed the accumulation into place. I about-face on the baptize pump, and – nothing. No drips, no leaks. I am happy. I hated accepting to about-face the pump off and on every time I bare water, that's added assignment than I'm acclimated to doing. I anticipate I'll booty the blow of the day off.
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