SERIOUSLY??? Another Broken Grey Tank Drain???
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Many thanks to @Oinfront for this thread and their other shower drain thread. We have a new-to-us 2019 400 and while it is in generally excellent, barely used condition, we have spent the past several days discovering that not one, not two, but all THREE drain connections to our grey tank are broken. In the same manner as described by everyone else here. With all the info we've collected here, the repairs to the shower and galley sink are straight forward. thank you @Oinfront and everyone!
BUT, the bathroom sink drain appears to be completely unreachable. I haven't found anyone whom has had to deal with that repair. We are happy to forget about bathroom sink and not use it, but we need to address the open hole in the top of the tank so we are not leaking from the tank. We are considering three painful options. 1) drain the brand new glycol from alde (that we replaced 48 hours ago) in order to remove the heating register under the bathroom which is blocking access to the broken drain. Even so, we still might not be able to get deep enough in that small space to make the repair. 2) remove the grey tank from the frame in order to seal up that inlet forever. 3) pay a lot of money to a dealership to make the repair.
We are capable of doing it ourselves so there is little chance we will pay a dealer. We are just trying to determine the least of the bad options.
I'd love some opinions if anyone has experience with this challenge and/or removing the tank.
We knew the purchase price was too good to be true and now we know why!
2019 Tab 400 BDL (new-to-us in Jan 2026) pulled by a 2017 BMW X5
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@amandalay sorry to hear you are one more having to deal with this. It’s a pain but at the same time it’s nice to get to know your camper more in depth and then feel confident in having done the repair yourself. The shower drain and kitchen sink drain are pretty easy just a little time consuming.
As fair as the bathroom sink to grey, I haven’t looked at mine. We never use our sink to be honest and now I’m scared to look! But I can see how that would be a tight place to repair.
Do keep us updated on that one in particular as I haven’t seen any post on that one. Any photos would be highly appreciated as well.
Good luck!
and enjoy the 400! We love ours. I also have a post for replacing the kitchen sink to a deep steel and a kitchen style faucet. Game changer!2019 T@B 400
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Hey @Oinfront thanks for the words of encouragement. Since my last post we have succeeded in repairing the bathroom sink drain into the grey tank! We thought we were just going to attempt to cut the drain, cap the tank and never use the sink, but once we got under there we actually managed to make the repair so the sink is usable. The trick is to come at from multiple directions: from inside the cabin under the bathroom floor (ala shower drain repair) AND thru the outdoor shower. You can access the sink drain [barely] thru the outdoor shower cavity if you remove the shower assembly - and if your hand and arm is small enough. We also had to go into the adjacent compartment under the refrigerator in order to temporarily pull back the A/C duct for more access thru the outdoor shower. I realize that doesn't make much sense without seeing it. Sadly we didn't take pics, but anyone finding themselves with a similar challenge can feel free to DM me and I'll go into greater detail. The repair process was the same as the other drains, just getting to it is the trick, but we proved it's possible without dropping the entire tank off the frame!
2019 Tab 400 BDL (new-to-us in Jan 2026) pulled by a 2017 BMW X5
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