Draining Suburban Rv Water Heater

Usually this plug is plastic.

Draining suburban rv water heater.

Check the freshwater tank to be sure it is full. Remove the drain plug or rod. Filling an rv water heater connect the rv water supply to a land based water hookup such as an outdoor hose connection to your home. Open the pressure valve on the top of the water heater.

Must maintain some conductivity between the anode with the water heater. Check out the picture below to see the water heater that we removed out of the rv that we had to fix. A full wrapping of the anode with teflon tape will insulate the anode from the water heater therefore the anode can not due it s job. Use an adjustable wrench to loosen the drain plug at the bottom of the water heater.

This water heater cleaning method has been updated with important changes. Click here to see the new technique. The company s goal was and remains to manufacture the most durable and efficient products available. Suburban manufacturing pioneered space saving horizontally vented gas heating systems water heaters solid state spark ignition systems and efficient dc furnace motors since becoming a supplier to the rv industry in the late 1960s.

You would normally use the bypass system when winterizing your rv or travel trailer. Below is a picture of a water heater from the outside with the cover off. Use the rv s freshwater hose to make the connection. Learn more about winterizing and the bypass valve function in video 3 of the water heater maintenance series 01.

At the very bottom of this blog i am going to show you a video of how to drain your water heater. Suburban water heater bypass valve function.