Access to Fresh water tank on a 2022 R-27

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Tunnel Bound

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I cannot get water to flow from my fresh water tank on my R-27, 2022.​

My facts: I live in Alaska and when I went to drain the tank last fall nothing flowed and I convinced myself the tank was empty and the gauge was giving me a false reading.

I took off the filter (the plastic bowl adjacent to the pump) because the previous winter it froze and cracked and I decided to bypass it.

The tank is full of water (shouldn't be ice anymore because it has been a couple of months above freezing).

I cannot pull water with my mouth from the intake hose that goes to the pump. It feels impossible.

Is there a way to see the fresh water tank and chase the hose to the pump?

At the foot of the berth there is a wall with a Garmin box, am I trying to take down that wall or a piece near there lower on the left?
Or should I be trying to remove the refrigerator?
 
Tunnel Bound said:

I cannot get water to flow from my fresh water tank on my R-27, 2022.​

My facts: I live in Alaska and when I went to drain the tank last fall nothing flowed and I convinced myself the tank was empty and the gauge was giving me a false reading.

I took off the filter (the plastic bowl adjacent to the pump) because the previous winter it froze and cracked and I decided to bypass it.

The tank is full of water (shouldn't be ice anymore because it has been a couple of months above freezing).

I cannot pull water with my mouth from the intake hose that goes to the pump. It feels impossible.

Is there a way to see the fresh water tank and chase the hose to the pump?

At the foot of the berth there is a wall with a Garmin box, am I trying to take down that wall or a piece near there lower on the left?
Or should I be trying to remove the refrigerator?
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Here's some documentation that may help. You'll gain access from within the cave.

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And this photo
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R27-OB Build Photos

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In this video, I also show how to access the top of the freshwater and blackwater tank.
Timestamp 4:22 and you can see it.
 
As a gentleman said in an earlier post it’s a good chance the top of the plastic tank sagged a little and the pickup tube is resting on the bottom blocking off the water. I believe the top sagging is fairly common on plastic tanks. On my Cutwater I had to pull the pickup tube out and cut off a little and I angle cut mine. The pickup tube was plastic and easy to cut. It’s been 5 years now and no problems with water supply. One more point, I was able to blow through the water line and hear the bubbling in the water tank but could not pull water out.
Ken
sunny Daze
 
We fought with ours being able to pump out the last 10gal until we recut the pickup tube with radius reliefs on each side of the angle cut, so it wouldn't suction itself to the bottom of the tank. Its worker great since.
 
Thanks for the guidance to the water tank. Found out that I had ice still in the tank. Working on pouring hot water in and pumping freezing water out!
 
Tunnel Bound said:
Thanks for the guidance to the water tank. Found out that I had ice still in the tank. Working on pouring hot water in and pumping freezing water out!
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I've never heard of a freshwater tank being frozen. Hopefully the tank didn't crack from ice expansion.
 
Submariner said:
I've never heard of a freshwater tank being frozen. Hopefully the tank didn't crack from ice expansion.
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All evidence points to a not cracked tank. At the end of the season last fall my pump wasn't working (maybe stuck to the bottom of the tank) and I convinced myself that there wasn't water in the tank. In Alaska, water tanks freeze. I am impressed with how long it has stayed frozen despite air temperatures being above freezing for 6-8 weeks now.
 
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