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Water Leak

Yahoo Message Number: 1949
Just a heads up for all you Jayco Seneca owners. The plastic, screw
on fitting on the outlet port of the water heater vibrated loose just
enough to to flood the space below the clothes closet in our 34SS.
This has now happened twice, once on city water and again using the
onboard water pump. A friend also had this happen on his 34SS.

My temporary fix was to install a radiator hose clamp with a 1 1/2
long bolt at a right angle to the clamp to act as a stop if the
fitting should try to loosen again.

Paul

Re: Water Leak

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 1950
, "kemper_mm"
wrote:
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Just a heads up for all you Jayco Seneca owners. The plastic, screw
on fitting on the outlet port of the water heater vibrated loose just
enough to to flood the space below the clothes closet in our 34SS.
This has now happened twice, once on city water and again using the
onboard water pump. A friend also had this happen on his 34SS.

Paul, can you possibly give us a picture of what you're talking
about. The water heater is in the rear corner under the closet and is
this where you made the fix?

Re: Water Leak

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 1951
A heads up for the heads up, my Endura and my Four winds before it did the same thing the plastic thumb tight fittings vibrate loose and flood compartments. It has happened to us twice in two different units. If you over tighten by hand you strip out the fittings. The one (the last leak) in the Endura had to be glued. Got us to our park glue held good enough to forget about it. I will replace the entire connection configuration in this area. Too much strain on the connections tubing is too short. Tension was the root of the problem. Vibration will always be a problem in the RV world wait till your potable water tank drain vibrates open and drains tank down on the way to a remote site.

good luck
Mike

Re: Water Leak

Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 1952
, "Bob Barbee"
wrote:
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, "kemper_mm"
wrote:

Just a heads up for all you Jayco Seneca owners. The plastic, screw
on fitting on the outlet port of the water heater vibrated loose just
enough to to flood the space below the clothes closet in our 34SS.
This has now happened twice, once on city water and again using the
onboard water pump. A friend also had this happen on his 34SS.

Paul, can you possibly give us a picture of what you're talking
about. The water heater is in the rear corner under the closet and is
this where you made the fix?

Bob Barbee,

I'm unable to post a pic for quite a while but will asap. Yes, our
H2O tank is under the closet and next to the rear end cap and this is
where I installed the clamp/bolt lash-up.

The radiator clamp is attached to the brass fitting on the tank and
the bolt is captured under the clamp protruding out towards the
bedroom at a right angle to the clamp (one each for both the inlet &
outlet). The shaft of the bolt is positioned to rest under the tab on
the plastic connector to stop it from rotating loose.

Paul