Next, open your pressure relief valve and remove the drain plug or anode rod to drain the tank. Use an RV water heater flush wand on the end of a garden hose to insert and wash out the inside of the tank. Then fill the tank half full with white vinegar, and fill the rest of the...
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If you have a Suburban water heater, the tank is made from enameled steel, so you’ll also have an anode rod that extends into your water heater. The anode rod exists to reduce corrosion inside the tank. The anode, usually made of magnesium, is designed to be a sacrificial rod so ...
A Suburban anode rod serves 2 purposes. 1) It acts as the drain plug for when you need to empty the water heater tank. 2) It’s main and more important function is to be a sacrificial element (usually aluminum or magnesium) and it purposely a softer metal which should break down with...
To drain your RV’s hot water tank, you would open the pressure relief valve on the water heater, and then remove the anode rod (Suburban) or the drain plug (Atwood) and allow the tank to drain. For much more information on this process, see our post on how toflush your RV water ...