[golfish]

The transmission went out in my truck on Thursday, I just can't figure out what the hec happen. I take great care of my cars\trucks. This truck only had 90,000 miles and I service the tranny every 20,000. It ran perfect until it died. THEN, I come home today and open up my stand and the sump is almost full to the top of with water. I guess when I filled my top-off drum yesterday a siphon some how got started and siphoned 20 gal of top-off water into the tank. I have used this float switch and drum for 2 years with out any problems. I know the float switch didn't stick. Now my SG went from 1.025 to 1.021 in a matter of hours. ....%$%&*^* I'm pi$$ed....

Guess I'll just let the water evap. The only critters that I'm worried about are the two Linckia startfish.

I think I know what happen with the top-off system. I have a siphon break outside but if the end of the line where the water goes into the sump was to some how get under water the siphon won't break. I must have moved the hose. Nobody to blame but me. I have been meaning to attach the end of the hose to a small bulkhead at the top of the sump.

Mark

[Neal359]

things can only get better and i wouldnt woury to much about the salinity i would also just let the water evap

[Evets]

Sorry to hear the bad news, although it certainly could be worse. The evaporation therapy is the best solution. As far as the truck's tranny is concerned, I'll resist the temptation to throw in one of the usual truck brand jokes, especially as I drive a little Found On Road Dead truck. As long as your creatures are alive (albeit a bit stressed at the moment), you're still doing ok. Any signs in the tank that something is wrong?
-Steve

[thezookeeper]

Hi Mark! I think I started this horrible chain of events. Well, not the truck, but the float switch problem.

Last weekend, I filled the reservior with more water than I usually do. Well, I didn't think about the fact that the water level in the reservoir was higher than the hose mounted in the sump. So, the water never would stop filling the sump once the float switch kicked on until it emptied the container to the level of the hose. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Don't feel so bad.

I wonder if a hole in the hose somewhere in the reservior will allow me to fill the reservior higher with water?


Joanne

[djheywood]

Mark don't forget to mention since you truck was out it prevented you from getting some of the best green crocea's at Jeff's this weekend.

[golfish]

Hi gang,
So far everthing in the tank seems ok. I know now that this happened yesterday afternoon. I didn't even look at the tank yesterday casue of the game.

Joanne,
At the point where the water line comes out of the drum I have a tee. I run a line off the tee strait up about 5 feet so its well above the sump. This way it will break siphon if the level in the top-off drum gets higher then the sump (the level is higher when full). The problem I think I had was the end of the water hose was submerged under water creating a siphon that the siphon break could not break...I think did you get that? I just woke up.

Neal,
You don't know me, things CAN still get worse

Steve,
My brother-in- law works for Dodge, he tells me the trucks never have tranny problems, its kinda of funny cause all the people I talk to that have a Dodge truck tell me they are on their second or third transmission. The funny thing is the tranny showed no signs it was going to go out. I have neve had a problem with it.

Brian,
I'm kinda gald I didn't make it down to jeff's, I probably would have spent some tranny cash

Mark

[scubadude]

I can relate Mark! Just got done last week finishing my final touchs on my auto topoff system. I have almost 60gals of good ro water hooked up on a drip system that is just a nozzle control (allows how fast or slow to drip the RO water into the system) and I had just got done hooking all the line and finished sealing all the leaks and apparently there was more air in the lines then I thought and my wife wakes me up at 6am the next morning saying that the carpet is soaked in the LR

The local rental store that rents carpet drying fans sees me coming and they KNOW whats happend...was like the 3rd time this has happnd....live and learn man! Just dont let it get you down, and learn from it BTW something to consider is 2 yrs on that same float valve of yours and you might want to consider changing it out soon. Just a thought though

[golfish]

I know what you mean scubadude. My float switch has three settings, Auto, off and manual. On July 3rd last year I did a water change. When I do a water change I have to turn the switch to the off postion so when I take water out off the tank it wont top-off. So I do the water change and forget to turn the switch back to auto. I come home from work on the morning of the 4th to find my sump return pump sucking air. I open up the stand to find the sump level down pretty low. What do I do you ask? I accidentally turned the switch to maual and pump 35 gal of RO\DI water into the sump in a matter of 20 minutes. Not only is the carpet soaked but my SG is 1.012....I didn't lose a critter. The two starfish didn't even blink an eye....... Well! if they could blink an eye