Draining Suburban Rv Water Heater

This water heater cleaning method has been updated with important changes.

Draining suburban rv water heater.

Suburban water heater bypass valve function. On suburban brand water heaters the plug is also an anodized rod. Use an adjustable wrench to loosen the drain plug at the bottom of the water heater. You would normally use the bypass system when winterizing your rv or travel trailer.

Water will start to run out. 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. At the very bottom of this blog i am going to show you a video of how to drain your water heater.

Remove the drain plug or rod. Check the freshwater tank to be sure it is full. 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. Click here to see the new technique.

The company s goal was and remains to manufacture the most durable and efficient products available. Below is a picture of a water heater from the outside with the cover off. Learn more about winterizing and the bypass valve function in video 3 of the water heater maintenance series 01. Usually this plug is plastic.

Use the rv s freshwater hose to make the connection. Wrap only 2 3 of the threads leave the front 1 3 bare.