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Refueling RV and Taking Preventative Measures

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Surviving Texas Winter Storm 2021 in an RV: No Power..No Fuel..What Happened? (90s Newell Coach)

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What happens here

On Tuesday, the RV owner is seen preparing to add 30 gallons of diesel to his RV's tank using a hand pump. He mentions having added Howes Diesel Treat additive earlier to prevent gelling. He explains that keeping the 300-gallon water tank full helps prevent freezing, even with an 80-degree water bay, as a larger mass of water is harder to freeze. He plans to fill the tank and test the building's spigot (which has unfrozen) to potentially do laundry and connect a hose to keep the spigot from refreezing. He emphasizes the importance of keeping the tank full to avoid future freezing issues.

Goal: Refill RV diesel tank and implement strategies to prevent water freezing.

Tools and materials

  • Hand Pump — Transferring diesel to the RV tank
  • Diesel Fuel — Refilling the RV's main diesel tank
  • Howes Diesel Treat Howes — Preventing diesel fuel gelling
  • Water — Filling the RV's fresh water tank

What they say

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but it's now day three tuesday and i got more diesel generator is still on the shop actually has power again but uh still a good bit of places around here don't have power and according to the encore website the rolling outages are not done yet it's just uh right now this area's back on so it's limited i have not shut the generator off even though my building cable would have power now i'm not shutting this generator off until it's above freezing here i'll run it for two weeks if i have to and i'll keep going get more diesel if i have to which is what i did i just got like 30 gallons of diesel and i'm about to pump it into there manually again i got more inside i just use uh [Music] one of the little like hand pumper things juice for race gas it's literally like what i got it for but we use it for diesel now i'm gonna fill it all up and then i'm gonna test the spigot out of the building because the water inside the building actually unfroze also so i have the uh the sinks just you know running just a little bit of water so it doesn't happen to freeze again because if that's open then this biggest should work the end's probably going to be frozen but i'm going to heat that up with propane torch and see if we can get some water to come out of it if we can i'm going to top my tank off and maybe do some laundry with the hose connected to uh just get that out of the way but i like to keep that tank full because a 300 gallon mass of water is really really hard to freeze even though it's like 80 degrees in my water bay right now if there was only a little bit of water it would freeze quicker and if that does freeze up again in the next couple days i'm screwed i have no water so right now is my best time to capitalize on that but i got to get to pumping because i got a lot of stuff to do i'm still going to edit and upload a video for you guys also which will already be up by the time you watch this the uncle rob one so i've been putting some of this stuff in there i put a good bit in last night what i did is i just dumped it right into the jug before i pumped it in and then once it gets pumped into there you know it disperses as i pump more in because uh yeah prevents diesel fuel from gelling that's what we're trying to do here it says something this whole thing treats up to 320 gallons so if this tank were full dumping this whole thing in would treat the entire thing honestly there's probably half of it in there and there's not even um was not quite half good…

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