Shower water leaking under black water tank

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Shower water leaking under black water tank

Hello Scampers, just seeing if anyone else has encountered this problem. Last weekend when we were camping my wife was showering in our 13' Scamp with the shower/toilet combo. I noticed water was dripping underneath the Scamp.  Upon closer inspection I could see the water was escaping the Scamp right next to the black water drain underneath the trailer. I called the Scamp service line and they said there is a wax ring under the black water tank to keep the water from escaping the Scamp. Therefore the wax ring must be compromised allowing the water to escape and not run down to the shower drain.  They advised rather than attempt to remove the toilet and black water tank to replace the wax ring, to instead caulk all around the bottom of the black water tank. I'm pretty handy most of the time however the Scamp employee is afraid of me opening another can of worms removing and re-installing the black tank/toilet. Hopefully this makes sense and any advice would be highly appreciated. Unfortunately I cannot find any diagrams, pictures or information on this topic.  Thanks all!!

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It does make sense. Removing

It does make sense. Removing the black water tank means removing the whole toilet assembly. At least that is the way it looks on my 19 footer. In mine one wall is so close to the tank that I do not think I could apply any caulk there. Hopefully it is better in your 13er.

-Paul
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Caulk around black water tank

Paul O. thanks for the reply. I decided to caulk around the black water tank. It was a bit of an undertaking like you said because of the very minimal room between the the black water tank and the wall to kitchenette is maybe 2 to 3 inches. It was a bunch of putting caulk on the finger and do my best to transfer it to the floor/tank seam. Also behind the tank is hard to caulk well but I used my phone camera to view the area as I proceeded to look for any missing areas that I was not thorough enough on.  I let it cure for 48 hours and ran the shower and sprayed a bunch of water back there and low and behold no leaks! Knock on wood. LOL Hopefully this holds up for a while because we use the Scamp around 20 to 30 nights a year. Hopefully this info helps somebody in future. Happy Scamping

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