Resolved Autofill did not auto shutoff!

[sheridany]

Every time I read your modifications, my head hurts.

 

[mitchellga]

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Can you please tell me where the auto fill solenoid valve is located in a 17 Dutch Star 4369?

 

[mitchellga]

Anyone know the location of the autofill valve?

There appears to be an electrical device directly behind the water hose reel. Not sure if that's it.

Can you tell me where the autofill solenoid valve is located in a 2017 Dutch Star?

 

[Neal]

Most likely directly behind the water hose reel.

 

[mitchellga]

Most likely directly behind the water hose reel.

So not behind the pegboard near the fresh water tank?

 

[Neal]

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[mitchellga]

Picture in this post

 

[mitchellga]

Thanks so much! It certainly doesn’t look easy to get to. Typical Newmar!

 

[lostinfla]

After working on ours for the past 7 years, I'm beginning to believe Newmars are built from the inside out by nanobots.

 

[newmarokie]

Or at the very least contortionists

 

[MarkMaxPayne]

Or without any mind paid to servicing! All they care about is what makes initial construction faster & cheaper.

My electric day and night shades on my new 2023 need adjusting; even comes with a tool to do so. Problem is Newmar mounted the shades and didn't point the adjustment screws downward so you could access them. Adding insult to injury they then continued to build the cabinets all around them blocking off any access to them short of using a dremel to cut access panels out of the inside cabinet walls. Ugh...

 

[Neal]

It's not hard to service. If you know what you're doing you can take the wet bay board off and have easy access to anything in there. That is not a hard task but involved and time consuming. You can access the autofill as I did by pulling out the water hose reel, took a little effort but again, not something that needs a mobile tech or factory. We'd love for everything to be easy, let's just be thankful we CAN do things like this on our own.

 

[NWIP]

@Neal did you order the valve from Newmar or use the link that @redbaron sent?

 

[Neal]

@Neal did you order the valve from Newmar or use the link that @redbaron sent?

Yes, I believe so, found my order:

https://www.zoro.com/redhat-12v-dc-brass-solenoid-valve-normally-closed-34-in-pipe-size-8210g009/i/G2009113/?q=G2009113

 

[NWIP]

Thanks, since you have experience would you like to come south and change it

 

[Neal]

Seems I have a schedule conflict. Umm when did you want me to come?? Yeah. Conflict.

 

[Neal]

Are you sure it’s bad? Some have had success in cycling the lever between manual and autofill a few times. Maybe some FOD in the line.

 

[NWIP]

I did all that including banging on valve

 

[Neal]

Bummer. Hope yours is easier. Put slide in of course.

 

[sheridany]