| Removing the black tank [message #228347] |
Sun, 03 November 2013 20:04  |
mickey szilagyi
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Registered: January 2013
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Hello all:
We are needing to remove our black tank to fix a crack in the bottom as well as try to seal up the drain holes because of mice that keep getting inside the coach.
We loosened the two brackets that hold the tank up. The left side (driver's side) seems to drop without a problem, but the right side (passenger side) seems to be held up by something other than the two brackets. After reading some more in this forum, we discovered that there is a threaded flange under the toilet that threads in to the tank. We removed the toilet, and found that the flange is held in place by 8 screws.
First question is: Are there any other threaded connections to the black tank (drains, etc.), other than the toilet flange, that need to be loosened before it is dropped? For instance we realize that the sink drain and vents are attached, but we do not know how they are attached (threaded?, or slide on?).
And our second question: How are the 8 bolts in the toilet flange fastened (i.e. do they thread in to wood underneath the fiberglass bathroom floor, or are they machine threaded in to something else? In our coach, these bolts are badly rusted and so far we are not able to loosen them. We are making sure we do not damage the fiberglass, so we are curious as to what these bolts actually fasten to.
Thank you so much for your help, as always.
Mickey
Mickey
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing, MI
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