A Note of Thanks to those here

[Mont]

We bought a new 2014 ACE 29.2 back in early December which got tied up at Ford with a wiring issue that took them a month to resolve. During the time it was in the shop, I did a bunch of reading here on those coaches and found one thing in particular that really helped. Others had posted that Thor left pieces from the black water tank cutoff for the toilet in the tank.

I have been around macerator pumps on boats for years and all it takes is one fish hook to royally screw one of those up. Today is the first day in two weeks it's been decent enough to get outside and really go through the RV systems, one by one. I decided to take the dump hose off and flush the tanks and lines to see if there was any cuttings left in mine from the factory.

The pic speaks for itself. That black plastic would have ruined my pump on my first trip. Thanks to those that posted here about it, I won't have to experience changing it myself or having it go back in the shop for work.

[JohnRR]

Thank you for the thread, this what it's all about sharing information.

[Thorchini]

I did a tank flush in the fall, pulled the 3" hose off the macerator and power washed the tank from the top down, just to make sure it was clean. I have a couple handles for my power washer, one of them I bent the end in a 90 to get the sides, worked bitchin. I rented one of those scope style cameras to look inside to make sure it was clean and I didn't have anything like plastic shreds still inside. Probably a little overboard, but I fell better now. I did get something stuck in my macerator blades the 1st year I had it, I remember having to pull the 3" hose off, and the dookie all over the ground (from what was in the 2' of hose), pulling the macerator and fixing it while camping. Party!

I don't expect problems going forward, but I do have a spare macerator in the rig if needed. The rebuild kits of these is about $67.00 on Amazon, gives you all the gaskets and new rubber impellor.