| [GMCnet] Show Drain Closure [message #254717] |
Tue, 08 July 2014 13:28  |
powerjon
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For those of you with the wet bath this is the best upgrade that you can do for your drain. Why, if you allow your black tank to become too full it can back up in the shower drain and cause a mess. I have had a friend that this has happened to and it was a smelly mess to clean up. I changed the shower drain out and install this drain. Cinnabar featured this in an article in their newsletter in 1997. I put one in and it works as advertised. It is tight working under the show floor, but it can be done.
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JR Wright
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| Re: [GMCnet] Show Drain Closure [message #254726 is a reply to message #254717] |
Tue, 08 July 2014 14:01  |
lqqkatjon
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I like this. cheap and easy....
however what I worry about, is where the mess might end up, if it does not go into the shower. the shower is fairly easy to clean the stink up in, if it was over flow anywhere else in the coach, that be a worse mess.
also if the black tank is full, and you bump that drain open..... will you get sprayed?
Jon Roche
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EBL EFI, manny headers, Micro Level, rebuilt most of coach now.
St. Cloud, MN
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| Re: [GMCnet] Show Drain Closure [message #254728 is a reply to message #254726] |
Tue, 08 July 2014 14:25 |
Olly Schmidt
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Jon,
> [..]also if the black tank is full, and you bump that drain open..... will you get sprayed?
me pictures this and is amused...
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| Re: [GMCnet] Show Drain Closure [message #254736 is a reply to message #254726] |
Tue, 08 July 2014 15:28 |
Bob de Kruyff
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lqqkatjon wrote on Tue, 08 July 2014 13:01I like this. cheap and easy....
however what I worry about, is where the mess might end up, if it does not go into the shower. the shower is fairly easy to clean the stink up in, if it was over flow anywhere else in the coach, that be a worse mess.
also if the black tank is full, and you bump that drain open..... will you get sprayed?
My black tank has a crack somewhere on the top. When I first got the coach I was going to put in a new tank--now I know better 
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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| Re: [GMCnet] Show Drain Closure [message #254781 is a reply to message #254758] |
Tue, 08 July 2014 22:47 |
powerjon
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Actually Emory, it was Ken & Margaret Guske. We had gone to the GMCGL rally at Don Wirth place on the way to the 2002 GMCMI rally in Nashville. We had be wandering thru the mountains on the way to Bean Station to spend a few days before moving on to Nashville. Four coaches had stayed at Jenny Wiley State Park in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and the next day were going to go thru the mountains to the Cumberland Gap going to Bean Station. It was Ray Eskau, Don Wirth, Ken and Myself. Ray, Don and I dumped our holding tanks the night before at the park and Ken said, “I have lots of room in the tank!" We got into some ups and downs and to say the least it was hard on the brakes and nerves. As we pulled over at the bottom of the mountain roads, Margaret came out of her coach to ask Jan my wife if she could use our toilet. Why, asked Jan? Margaret said the tank didn’t have as much room as Ken thought and the bath rug was saturated with POO.
This Tub drain closure was the first things that I did to the bath during the interior remodel in spring of 2001. I can say that I have been very fortunate that I have not personally experienced the pleasure of a high Poo level. It works as advertised.
JR Wright
78 Buskirk Stretch
75 Avion
Michigan
On Jul 8, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Emery Stora wrote:
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>> powerjon wrote on Tue, 08 July 2014 13:28
>>> For those of you with the wet bath this is the best upgrade that you can do for your drain. Why, if you allow your black tank to become too full
>>> it can back up in the shower drain and cause a mess. I have had a friend that this has happened to and it was a smelly mess to clean up. I
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> A "friend"?
> I've hears that before.
> He'll, I've had it happen to me at least five or more times over the last 34 years I've owned the GMC
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> Emery Stora
> 77 Kingsley
> Frederick, CO
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| Re: [GMCnet] Show Drain Closure [message #254811 is a reply to message #254736] |
Wed, 09 July 2014 08:13 |
powerjon
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Bob,
You say that you have a crack in black tank on top or as some of you may have a failed connection on the sink/kitchen line that enters the top of the tank and if it leaks it can get on the frame and it can cause corrosion on the frame in the bogey area. Holding tanks leaks are not good. As for other places to over flow, your toilet level will not go down, so that is you very noticeable high level warning.
J.R. Wright
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GMC Eastern States
GMCMI
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Michigan
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| Re: [GMCnet] Show Drain Closure [message #254830 is a reply to message #254811] |
Wed, 09 July 2014 10:20 |
Bob de Kruyff
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powerjon wrote on Wed, 09 July 2014 07:13Bob,
You say that you have a crack in black tank on top or as some of you may have a failed connection on the sink/kitchen line that enters the top of the tank and if it leaks it can get on the frame and it can cause corrosion on the frame in the bogey area. Holding tanks leaks are not good. As for other places to over flow, your toilet level will not go down, so that is you very noticeable high level warning.
It is my very high level warning and it has only reached that point a few times in my 20 years of ownership since my tank level sensor works very well, luckily. As a practice, I don't like leaks anywhere, but this one is sort of an emergency head's up
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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