Westfalia Florida Draining the hot water tank
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Topic: Westfalia Florida Draining the hot water tank
Posted By: daz2vans
Subject: Westfalia Florida Draining the hot water tank
Date Posted: 26 Nov 08 at 13:00
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I have recently purchesd a 1990 Westy Florida and i was wondering if i have to drain the hot water tank that's in the roof to stop it from freezing over winter and if I do where might be the drain plug? Thanks in advance Daz |
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Posted By: caveman_dick
Date Posted: 26 Nov 08 at 15:05
| Mines not in my roof, but I've never drained mine. Does it have insulation? If so, I would think that should stop it from freezing unless your planning a trip to Siberia... |
Posted By: t'onion
Date Posted: 27 Nov 08 at 14:11
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According to the manual ,if there's a risk of frost then yes http://s136500617.websitehome.co.uk/gipsy/trumatic-e/trumatic-b0.pdf ------------- LT28 Westfalia FloRida, 2.4 diesel miserable fooker |
Posted By: daz2vans
Date Posted: 28 Nov 08 at 09:13
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Thanks Mark
Water now drained for the winter.
Daz
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Posted By: t'onion
Date Posted: 28 Nov 08 at 09:30
 I'm still trying to get mine to fill up , only had it 2 days  ------------- LT28 Westfalia FloRida, 2.4 diesel miserable fooker |
daz2vans wrote:Posted By: andy7
Date Posted: 03 Dec 08 at 13:07
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I've got the same van as you - hadn't thought of draining it - and wouldn;t want to because it's in fairly regular use. I did notice when fixing leaks in the taps that the whole system seems to be interconnected so that if you pull a hose out somewhere the hot water tank always empties, then when you turn any tap on the pump tries to fill the hot tank again.
So are you draining the whole system, or did you find a way to isolate the hot water tank?
thanks
Andy ------------- '90 Westfalia Florida (LT 28 2.4td) |
Posted By: t'onion
Date Posted: 03 Dec 08 at 14:54
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Andy If you look under the rear rock and roll bed , there's the water tank and the batteries ? yes? on the rhs as your looking into the area there should be a valve with a red level on it if you put that into the 'up' position and i think turn on the hot tap then this should drain the hot water tank, but still lets you use the cold ? ------------- LT28 Westfalia FloRida, 2.4 diesel miserable fooker |
Posted By: andy7
Date Posted: 04 Dec 08 at 07:34
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nice one - thanks ------------- '90 Westfalia Florida (LT 28 2.4td) |
Posted By: t'onion
Date Posted: 04 Dec 08 at 07:44
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What Rockradio has done is most helpful http://www.rabbitsonthemoon.com/lt - http://www.rabbitsonthemoon.com/lt well done and thank you so much  ------------- LT28 Westfalia FloRida, 2.4 diesel miserable fooker |