good morning everybody today has been a strange day already first of all let me
point out I will cut to the chase and make this video as quick as possible so
we can run everything through but this is gonna be an interesting one first of
all it has actually been five days since I have filmed for YouTube I did check
into a clinic I got diagnosed a sty in both eyes and even the doctor told me
that that may be a first it is very rare that you are physically going to have
separate styes in both eyes that was why I was really really concerned I'm sure
you can see this eye right there it's healing a lot better this one is still
really swollen on the eyelid itself but yeah that is what I was diagnosed as
having is two different size in both eyes very strange so I've been doing
warm compresses for five days I got antibiotics and I got sty cream to to
treat my eyes to try to make that heal I got a keep with the antibiotic for I
think two weeks no matter what I think they're getting better it's just a self
conscious thing where I said I'm not gonna feel them for a week well I
decided to film today because I'm sitting here in Fargo North Dakota also
waiting for my license plates which
they're coming I think I think they're on the way anyway
I was sitting here watching TV with Jack's with the water pump turned on I
pretty much keep that water pump turned on all day at night I turn the switch
off more about that later but maybe I can help somebody else RV or who goes
through this just sitting here watching TV all of a sudden the water pump full
rager on you know you know I freaked out a little bit because it's making sound
under here but within like five or seven seconds I jumped up and turned the water
pump off and then I went oh my god again for those of you that don't know
what that means your water pump is pressurizing your system which feeds
water to your sinks your shower your toilet and your hot water heater and
anywhere else right so it keeps a certain psi pressure all the time once
that pressure goes down once you turn this the sink on the water pump is
probably gonna kick back on to repressurize the line well you can see
why if I'm just sitting here there's no reason for that to be full blast on and
of course my immediate thought was I just busted another pipe somewhere under
the floor or somewhere and it is spewing water everywhere so I took off this
looked underneath there's no water by the water pump I looked underneath the
sink I looked everywhere and couldn't find any water problems so I tested it
one more time turned it on turned it back off for a quick of it what the heck
then I noticed that my pilot light for my hot water heater had gone out why
would that happen so I I opened the door to my RV because my water heaters on
this side I turned on the water pump one more time and looked and out comes
boiling water from the oh my gosh it's windy boiling water spewing out of the
water heater and hot mist everywhere out there because it was so cold but it's
not as bad as it seems I did some diagnosing actually we'll go
outside real quick then I'll show you it was pretty clear what was going on
because this was all steamed up and everything and water was coming out of
this pressure release right here this is this is a safety measure so that your
water heater doesn't explode in there if it gets too much pressure so it pressure
builds this is it's got a spring valve that'll spray water out or leak water
out or something like that and what I have is a completely corroded failed
water pressure I don't know exactly what you call this guy right there but it's
bad I I initially thought that oh man I don't have any running water again but
that's not quite true most RVs have a hot water heater bypass valve and
I do under my sink see that blue gal behind my shoes right there that is a
hot water heater bypass valve and so I turned that off for now which
essentially means I'm not pressurizing the hot water side if that valve were to
stay open in its current state right now every time the water pump is on water
would just spew out that failing valve on the outside of the RV so luckily I
still have running water in the RV right now and I did actually release enough
water out there that it's not boiling anymore right now it's still a little
warm to the touch but I do plan to go to Home Depot I'm hoping that they have a
valve in stock because I don't know if there's any RV stores around here or
open this time of year for that kind of stuff so I'm hoping that I can remove
that take it into the store and patch that back up and and be good so maybe
one of the benefits of having an RV versus a house is that you know if you
need stuff for your house you have to drive from your house to Home Depot and
if you forget something you got to drive back to Home Depot where I am just
traveling with my house and I can bring my entire house to Home Depot in case I
got to go back in and I've already had to gone in twice I think I actually
found this is a generic 180 NP relief valve 3/4 inch I believe this is exactly
what I need it's already got the threaded water tape on there 12 bucks
cheap cheap the problem is after I got this and came back out I can't get this
one off I don't know if you can see but there's a place to put a clamp to
actually screw this in well guess what Fleetwood did at the manufacturer or
suburban did they put in a valve that has no way to take it off this entire
piece back here is just rounded there is nothing to grab on to to twist this
counter clockwise and take it off so I'm basically just going to have to destroy
this put my crescent wrench on here and or even inside the thread or something
I'm just gonna have to get it off one way or the other that's all I can do and
then next time if this goes out before the whole water heater does I will have
an easier way to take it off so oh and my second trip into Home Depot was to
get a bigger pair of Crescent wrenches the one I had didn't fit so I'll just
see what happens also one other thing clearance was
obviously an issue I had to take off stuff that was here so that I can be
able to have this wiggle room right here to release this right so I did remove
some components and took some pictures so I know how to put it back in with the
wiring and everything all right I finally got that guy off of there and
there it is look inside look how green corroded that's bad okay and the entire
spring system inside has failed so it just stays open all the time and this
does nothing you can see it's not doing anything it's just completely a failed
piece of machinery still was kind of a pain in the butt to get off though to be
honest with you yet but let's see how this matches up to the one I just bought
and we failed guys it is not three quarter inch the one I bought is three
quarter inch this is I don't half inch maybe even I'm not even sure I'll go
bring this inside and see if I can find a replacement in there and I'll go
return this guy dang it but that would have been a third trip if you were
driving from your home so guess what adventure ought to be here in West Fargo
I just called them told them what I need and he says he thinks he has one in
stock I'm gonna jet over there ten miles go see if they got that and we may be
having a hot shower tonight it's not everything in an RV plumbing is always
the same in every I've talked about it even the pecs could be three-quarter
inch or half inch and connectors and everything I think I will be the first
video on YouTube that is shown a RV suburban hot water heater with half-inch
because like I said no other videos I saw showed that
$36.00 part you know it kind of RV specific but look they had one in stock
half inch down they're exactly the right one so thank you adventure RV West Fargo
for having the part I need offseason but they don't get too many customers this
time of year just to recap guys that's a bad one
Green corroded faylene spring and everything in there and that's a good
one nice shiny working actually when you pull this up if you can see but inside
it actually raises and lowers like it's supposed to 150 psi so I'm gonna wrap
this with some white tape there and then we'll get this guy installed alright got
her all put back together guys there it is all shiny the only shiny piece on
this got all the power the DC is all hooked back on I guess the next step is
to go inside and test it alright bypass is back on I'm going to turn the water
pump on it's still going
we're okay we're okay this is okay that the water pumps still on though we lost
a lot of water out of that five and a half gallon hot water heater so it's
filling it back up I think it's gonna stop soon
there we go just turned off pressurized that's alright last step I know I did
everything right there can't really be a problem but water heater pilot ladies
and gentlemen that's a good sign right there
we got plane I love it it's exciting I don't ever get
down I'm always just looking for how we're gonna take care of this I learned
a lot today I'm glad I didn't need to replace the entire water heater although
when the time comes I will of course film that procedure as well later on I'm
going to take a nice hot shower in about 20 minutes
shower was great hot water heater is working fantastic the water pump itself
is actually performing differently I don't know quite how to explain it but
instead of just kicking on as soon as you open a valve it maintains pressure
better it's very hard to explain I feel like the water pump is working better
now that I fixed the water heater valve anyway everything is working out great
I'm glad that project worked out as with those plates I still have full faith in
America's mailbox I paid $44 to have my license plates
shipped overnight five days ago to the FedEx office here in town and
they still have not arrived granted two of those five days were the weekend but
still we are a little confused as why it's taking so long to go from South
Dakota to North Dakota overnight I really really think they're gonna be in
by 8:00 p.m. tonight actually it closes at 6:00 worst case I think I will get
them tomorrow and I will let you guys know and I will show you what my custom
personalized plates are at the end of this video so I guess stay tuned for
like one more minute I literally just stepped outside you
know people still ask me sometimes why what's with the
it's up to two week delay on my videos well it's really for times like this
it's been two more days since the last little clip I found two more days and
unfortunately there was a glitch at America's mailbox not even their fault
it's actually they're putting the blame on Pitney Bowes but uh I got an email
saying that they actually had never shipped out my plates they never went
out so essentially I have now been sitting here waiting in freezing
conditions in Fargo North Dakota when there was supposed to be an automatic
message that said either here's your confirmation or it didn't go out anyway
those didn't get shipped to anybody at America's mailbox and Barb who also
Cowen's america's mailbox with Dawn actually personally called me to
apologize and said this is not how we operate this is not normal and I thought
that was pretty cool it doesn't really fix the fact that you
know I made a choice to stay here and wait for those plates and I was waiting
for essentially nothing and I didn't even know nobody knew I just so that's
frustrating but and just another example of why everything's out of my control
all the time we're gonna get six inches of snow here in Fargo today
luckily I'm I'm not gonna deal with FedEx anymore though because they have a
problem they've not fixed that problem but one of my viewers crystal who lives
in Fargo is gonna let me use her address and America's mailbox is supposed to
mail out my plates today by 4:00 p.m. and they are supposed to arrive by
tomorrow 4 p.m. we'll see guys this has been this has been interesting I don't
want to relive this and I want to think that this is not gonna be the norm for
when I'm having mail forwarded this is a terrible first experience but giving
credit they got 10,000 members they got 30-some employees working the mail room
so they're doing the best they can my eyes are doing better they might not
look much better but the antibiotic cream and the warm
compresses are helping like I said it's now been eight days since my last video
even though this one was probably uploaded on a regular schedule
so yeah I will cut back in here either tomorrow or the next day when I get
plates and show them to you
Thank You crystal for your help
license plates you too it wasn't taken I couldn't believe it
those are some nice-looking plates Wow fancy pants South Dakota I got new
registration and a new sticker yep got my sticker awesome
this means can officially hit the road let me throw these on the RV real quick
and then our fall trip begins in the next video guys take care from Jack's
night we will see you really soon you're gonna like this