RV Fresh Water Tank was Falling Out!

As I was completing my snowbird trip prep to our Keystone Cougar fifth wheel, I was under the rig tidying up the coroplast plastic underbelly cover.

Recently, I had repaired cracks in my waste tank and removed a clog in my black tank valve. So I was reattaching the underbelly section I had cut out for access and resealing seams with Gorilla tape.

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At the other end of the rig, I noticed a bulge in the underbelly. It looked like a piece of coroplast was hanging down. I went to push it back in place, but something behind it felt solid. Part of my freshwater tank was loose and falling out!

I opened up the underbelly to inspect and figure out why. Right away I noticed that a support beam had come detached and had fallen down onto the mainframe I-beam. The two 3/8 TEK screws that held the tanks support beam had sheared off.

I was thankful to find the issue before things got worse, and the whole tank would have fallen out onto the highway. The repair was easy as reattaching the beam with fresh screws. I also added a third screw which the factory neglected to do even though there was a hole for it.

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