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Originally Posted by MMARFISI
Well folks...I lucked out! This morning we set up the TM to tackle our toilet problem. When I checked the level guage it read empty. I refilled and emptied the system several times and all worked well. I still can't figure what happened when we did the original dump. The liquid did not seem to drop and the level guage did not indicate a level change.
Is it possible for some kind of vacuum to form preventing the liquid from dropping till the outside dump valve is opened? That's all I can think of.
Anyway, everything seems to be working ok now. Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. You folks are great!
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First of all, it's really, really unlikely that you had any kind of vacuum preventing the liquid in the toilet from dropping when you pulled the slide valve...that's a very large opening and highly unlikely to develop any vacuum issues.
My strong suspicion is that the slide valve in the bottom of the toilet was not fully closed from the beginning and that your outlet pipe was already filled before you pulled the toilet's slide valve fully out in your dump preparation. If that was the case, you would not have seen any drop in the gauge level nor would you have heard any sound of fluid dropping. And then after the outlet pipe had been drained, your toilet correctly showed that it was empty. The outlet pipe only holds about a quart and a half of liquid so it would be very easy for it to have been filled when you initially charged your toilet.
The bottom line is I strongly doubt that you have to worry about being able to dump your toilet. I would, however, suggest you very carefully verify that your toilet is not dumping into the outlet pipe through a leaky slide valve before you intentionally pull the slide valve to dump it.
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Ray
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