A broken water heater drain plug on your rv can be a hassle to repair depending whether your plug is metal or plastic.
Rv water heater drain plug leak.
What i think is a water heater drain plug on our imagine 2670 is leaking.
After de winterizing the trailer i re inserted the plug and tightened it a little more than snug and it started to leak.
07 28 2010 10 37 am if you own an rv and are noticing a leak from the area of the rv water drain you may a problem on your hands.
Can you use teflon tape on these plastic plugs.
Replace your atwood rv water heater drain plug once every other year.
Not sure what else i could do.
Buy a spare plug.
That spare drain plug.
The constant extreme heat will eventually cause the plastic drain plug to fail.
You might not be close to an rv shop or the shop may be closed when you need one.
I had it pretty snug but tightened it a bit more and it still leaks.
I removed the drain plug from our water heater to drain it at the end of the summer season.
In this video i show a good example of what a atwood rv water heater plug looks like af.
Before you attempt any work on the water heater turn it off and let the water cool.
In this free video dave solberg teaches you a couple quick solutions for removing a corroded or broken plug from the exterior of your rv s water heater.
The white nylon plastic plug was out when i took delivery of the unit and the trailer was still winterized.
If the plug wasn t leaking when it was first installed trying to tighten it probable wont fix the leak.
Drain plug internal tank t p relief valve or the temperature and pressure relief valve water inlet for cold water and outlet for hot water anode rod.
But to give you an idea here are the most common parts that can cause leaking on any water heater including the ones specifically for use on rvs.
It s a good idea to turn off the water supply to the rv before working on anything plumbing related.
After reinstalling it this week it has a slow leak.
In this tutorial you ll find out what you can do in order to fix this leak that you have noticed.
