machunt
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2011 321 frl outback and we are experiencing a very bad odor from under the kitchen sink. we replaced the vent that is under the sink. any ideas
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fordsooperdooty
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Ad some enzyme digester to your grey holding tank...
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LostinAZ
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You may be smelling the vent to the roof for the galley tank. But since you say you smell it under the sink and you have no visible leaks I would suggest filling the galley tank through the sink drain filling it to where water is standing in the sink. Then start looking for leaks both inside the 5th wheel and underneath.
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path1
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Are you sure the smell is a tank smell? No chance of a mouse or rat or cat or whatever died back in there somewhere?
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"Might find something smelly nobody knew about."
Like a rotten potato....
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pkunk wrote:"Might find something smelly nobody knew about."
Like a rotten potato....
Funny that you would mention rotten potatoes. Two summers ago we had a terrible odor and thought it was from one of the holding tanks. We also had a problem with fruit flies most of that season. Tried every cure for fruit flies we could find on the internet but they kept coming back. Made sure we put stoppers in the drains on kitchen sink, but them flies kept coming back. The odor finally went away. At the end of the season while winterizing our 5er I opened that cabinet under the stove that we decided since the subwoofer to the surround sound was in there was basically useless and found the bag of potatoes, or I should say the liquid they had turned into, that I had put under there at the beginning of the season. I had to admit to DW that I was the cause of the odor and fruit flies.
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I'm guessing a dead mouse back behind the floor or wall.
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machunt wrote:2011 321 frl outback and we are experiencing a very bad odor from under the kitchen sink. we replaced the vent that is under the sink. any ideas
The mystery stink. We had that with our 1st TT, an old 82 Sunline. We never found the source of the odor. It was a foul sour cheesy smell coming out from under the sink/stove area. We tried everything from scrubbing the floor under them with bleach water, then strong Pine Oil cleaner to spraying loads of Lysol and letting a fan blow into the opening... the smell remained. All we could think of was something, some food or milk product was spilled and somehow got into the flooring and bottom of the wall behind the sink/stove unit. We had that TT for a year and the smell never dissipated.
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machunt
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if it were a dead rodent it would stink all the time. we are gonna bleach the tank on sunday when we dump
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