90 percent air out of all fawcets. What did we do.

[Holoholo]

Did we blow the internal lines or connection.
Had a cold spell and did not winterize. Thoughts on how to find problem. 3500 Bighorn
thanks

 

[danemayer]

Are you on city water, or using the pump to pull water from the fresh tank?

 

[Holoholo]

City water

Are you on city water, or using the pump to pull water from the fresh tank?

 

[danemayer]

Any possibility that your water heater was drained? If the water heater is empty, the hot water lines would be pushing air out of the water heater for quite a while while the tank fills.

You could test this by seeing if the toilet fills normally - it uses only cold water.

 

[NWILSON]

Shut off the city water supply and relieve pressure on the hose then rotate the Andersen valve (water source selector) and reset to city water. The valve can cause a number of goofy things to occur with your water system. Perhaps this is one of them!

 

[Gary521]

Check the plastic screen on the inlet to the water pump. The water runs through this whether on city or pump. The plastic filter bowl can freeze and crack very easily.

 

[Holoholo]

Check the plastic screen on the inlet to the water pump. The water runs through this whether on city or pump. The plastic filter bowl can freeze and crack very easily.

Thanks for the reply’s. Turns out our Anderson valve is installing upside down. Drycamp setting means city and city means dry. Go figure.

 

[LBR]

Thanks for the reply’s. Turns out our Anderson valve is installing upside down. Drycamp setting means city and city means dry. Go figure.

Great to know....one-off weird things now and then like this will stump the best of troubleshooters....it is such a rare issue, no one gives it a second thought.

 

[danemayer]

Thanks for the reply’s. Turns out our Anderson valve is installing upside down. Drycamp setting means city and city means dry. Go figure.

If your water is flowing normally, that's good. But on the NORMAL setting, the Anderson valve connects the tubing from the fresh tank to the tube going to the water pump. If your tank was empty, or you had an air leak at the pump, and the pump was ON, that would explain the air. If the pump was OFF, it's not at all clear to me how air could be coming out of the faucets.

Also, unless something's changed recently in the valve design, there's a secondary channel so that city water flows when set to NORMAL, and the pump will pull water out of the fresh tank when set to CITY. So it would make at most a slight difference in water flow for the valve to actually be in NORMAL mode while appearing to be in CITY mode.

Although it's working now, I don't know that you're at end game yet.