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Last night at about 11 PM one of my water leak detectors started screaming. It turned out it was the one for the hot water tank. As I couldn't do anything that late I just turned the water off and relieved the pressure.
This morning when I had a look, sure enough, the hot outlet was dripping pretty steadily from the check valve. Coincidentally I had a brass replacement in my Amazon cart but hadn't got around to ordering yet!
Made a quick trip to the local hardware store and picked up a 1/2" nipple and got things fixed temporarily.
The part that pi$$es me off though is the piece of crap that Suburban puts in these at the factory. The OEM check valve didn't crack or split, the way it is manufactured almost guarantees that it will leak eventually! If you look at the attached photo, you can see the threads have molded in flats and 2 molded in dimples right at the point where the threads need to seal as tight as possible.
My leak detectors paid for themselves many times over last night! If this had continued unnoticed, it would have soaked my furnace and no doubt cost me several hundred bucks!
This morning when I had a look, sure enough, the hot outlet was dripping pretty steadily from the check valve. Coincidentally I had a brass replacement in my Amazon cart but hadn't got around to ordering yet!
Made a quick trip to the local hardware store and picked up a 1/2" nipple and got things fixed temporarily.
The part that pi$$es me off though is the piece of crap that Suburban puts in these at the factory. The OEM check valve didn't crack or split, the way it is manufactured almost guarantees that it will leak eventually! If you look at the attached photo, you can see the threads have molded in flats and 2 molded in dimples right at the point where the threads need to seal as tight as possible.
My leak detectors paid for themselves many times over last night! If this had continued unnoticed, it would have soaked my furnace and no doubt cost me several hundred bucks!
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