I don't know about the actual construction of your model toilet...but i had problems with black tank odors with a thetford aqua magic 5. This crapper is constructed in such a way that the toilet is hollow with a drain hole at the bottom. There is no straight plummbing from the trap door to the hole at the bottom. Therefore when you flush the toilet...fecal matter can splash & splatter about inside the hollow toilet, therefore no amount of chemicals, venting or anything else will get rid of this resulting matter build-up & the associated odor. Whats worse if there is any airleak around the seam (where the toilet top half & bottom half is joined together) odors will escape from there too. If you toilet is built the same way as mine, then try using a hose end spray wand that sprays at a 90 degree angle inserted just under the trap door & spray out the insides of the toilet. You could also use something like a toilet ring cleaner inserted under the trap door & sprayed around inside the toilet & then sprayed out. That's one of the main reasons i went to a Sealand china bowl foot flush. This unit has a direct shot from the valve to the hole below via a thick wall PVC pipe. In other words...theres no hollow insides for any splatter to build up inside it.
ScottG wrote: I had a plastic toilet in another TT we had and it had a vent hole that went down into the black tank. This vent was located just under where the water squirts out around the edge of the bowl. If the tank wasn't treated with deodorant, it would sometimes stink through this vent.
On mine, there is an overflow for the bowl...when you fill it too high , it flows out around the rim to the black tank, this overflow has a trap in it ( like under in a sink) and if it dries out, you can get that smell. Try filling your bowl until the water flows thru the overflow and refills the trap. I do that every once in awhile... seems to work
I'll have to check to see if it's rocking but I don't think so. There's no liquid leak as the floor flange is clearly visible from the basement storage area. I don't know how the seal was installed this time as I had the dealer replace the blade valve and he reinstalled it. Right now, there is no odor as there was when we arrived home from our last outing. I think I'll take your advice and put a new seal in and hope that works. Thanks for all your help, guys.
2002 Silverado LT LB, 2500HD Duramax/Allison, Jacobs Controller, Linex Liner, Black Westin Boards
2001 Cedar Creek 30RKFS
Kirk wrote: I suspect that Kenneth is on the right track, but there is another much more common source for odors from the gray water tank.
Agreed. I was having a similar problem. Several hot days in a row then stinky bathroom..and the toilet still had water. After a few days of sytematic head scratching I figured it out. I don't use the bathroom sink much and it turned out that the trap was drying out in the hot weather after a few days. The grey tank stinky was venting into the bathroom via the sink drain.
Make sure the sink and tub traps have water in them and leave a couple inches of water in the sink and tub as a big water trap. If the smell goes away, bio nuke the grey tank to smithereens.
On our old beast last summer in TX all the sudden we started getting a REAL bad stinkum problem. It was the first time we had camped in severe heat , it turned out to be gasses building up in the vent pipe and downdrafting right into the trailer. I grabbed one of those Cyclone vent thingies to see what would happen and sure enough, it did the trick.
-----Robert
'1984 King of the road 5th wheel 28ft, used , but not abused. Starting it's second life one piece at a time.
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IMPOSSIBLE!! I don't do foreign.
