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Post edited 1:59 am – April 10, 2011 by sandersmr

literally.  I hooked up to the site water this afternoon at a state park in MS.  Turned the water on, heard a funny noise and noticed water dripping out of the front corner of the trailer – NOT GOOD!!!!

Turned the water off and rushed inside (after finding the keys I dropped – sheesh!) and there was water dripping around the t-connection from the water into the hot water heater.  I have white mesh-reinforced tubing from the city water and from the water pump to a tee with blue pex-a pipe going into the hot water heater and the other side of the tee going to the rest of the trailer as cold water.  I don't know if it's a tubing connector/clamp worked loose or the hexnut fitting into the hot water heater.  And since I don't have a surfeit of tools, I didn't mess with it – will wait until I get home tomorrow night.

I normally use a flow restrictor type of pressure regulator along with a charcoal filter in front of my water hose and I had those on.  I've been camping all week and don't think I had any problems at the 3 other parks I've been to since last Friday.

At least the campground has a nice clean bath house around the curve and about 4 sites down from me.

I'll report back with diagnosis and solution (hoping it's not a trip to the dealer, I'm now out of warranty).  Also, I need to figure out if I need to do any more mitigation or if I caught it soon enough that I won't have resulting water damage later.  I have the bench lid on that side lifted up letting it air out as much as possible after wiping up all the water I could find, but I think some may be trapped under the fresh water tank (which I can't use because it's upstream of the leak as well).  There was also water that seeped along the front seam between the wall and floor, I hope I got that all up as well.

I use the simple brass pressure regulator purchased at Wal-Mart and many camper stores.

Turns out the fitting going into hot water heater was very loose – it was nowhere near finger tight.  I'm not sure how it had worked loose but after tightening it and turning the water pump on and running water, we saw no signs of leakage.

It's something you may want to check, make sure the fittings are tight.  We are going to probably get some Teflon tape as well to help with possible leakage.

If I hadn't had the table in the way yesterday, I could probably have checked all the fittings easily and found out this one was loose.