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[VAC] Re: Inlet check valve



Typically if a check valve starts leaking it will leak back out through the city
water fill fitting. Your coach also has a pressure relief valve plumbed into it
next to the pressure regulator. If you will look to the left as you look into
the trunk you should see the bell shaped pressure regulator. On a short branch
line near it will be a 90 Deg cast fitting with a flat top. The label on the top
describes the pressure relief. It is fairly common for these to leak unprovoked.
When they do leak it will come out under the coach through an overflow tube
attached to it.  The common recommendation is to remove the relief valve and cap
the branch line. The relief valve is redundant to the relief valve in the water
heater.

Charlie