I was having problems getting the sump cover off my interior filter. Ultimately, I gave up and just removed the entire assembly and took it into a nearby RV dealership. The guy at Eagle RV took it into his shop, used a table vice, and loosened it up! Finally. I’ve been fighting with that thing for ages. When I got home from the apartment later on in the night, I had to first install the sump and filter so I could turn the water back on. Yay…installing a filter in the dark amongst the mosquitoes.
Fortunately, there are built-in lights in our basement space, so I didn’t have to struggle with my headlamp. Once I got everything screwed back in, I turned on the water, and it overflowed over the top of the sump. Clearly, it wasn’t tight enough. Got the special sump wrench out and tightened it as much as I could without ripping it out of the board it’s mounted on. Turned on the water again and no more leak from the sump. Instead, the water in hose was spraying everywhere. At some point, I had to call out for Lex to bring me a bucket and some towels.
The next paragraph may be DIY, but I couldn’t resist the irony of this part of the tale…
This entire time while I wrestled with this thing, my dinner was doing the mambo in my colon. But I couldn’t go into the trailer and relieve myself because the water was off, and unlike household toilets, RV toilets do not have holding tanks. They draw directly on the water input in order to flush. Finally, my gut went into full rebellion, so I ran into the RV and did my thing. I just didn’t flush. Ran back outside and finished getting the sump properly mounted and tightened everything up, made sure nothing was leaking, and headed back into the house, soaking wet. First thing I did was flush.
Whew! So glad that’s done. The water filter thing has been hanging over our heads for two weeks now. We weren’t sure how we would install that damned thing. Thank goodness for the nice guy at the RV place. The sump would have only cost around $20, but I’m trying to save $20 wherever I can these days. We now have three filters between us and the bay. That, my friends, is peace of mind.
I think (hope) we’ll have the money for the hitch a week from now when I get paid. I’m going to make an appointment to have the hitch installed for the last week of July, so I’m hoping that first weekend of August we’ll get to take a little test run trip. Lex wants to do some practice driving, turning, and backing in a parking lot for starters, but then I think we should head out to a park somewhere and just spend the night so we can practice unhitching, hitching and doing all the hookups (not to mention figuring out how to secure everything in here for travel).
