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Originally Posted by jujustad
so the suction line is attached to the water pump? Is this what everyone is referring to when talking about a by pass kit? to make it easier to suck antifreeze into the system and bypass the fresh water tank?
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The suction line and valve is called a
winterizing kit which is usually installed just before the pump on the intake line from the FW tank.
A
bypass (or bypass kit) is the valves and piping installed on the backside of the water heater to take the heater out of the system so it can be drained and still keep a closed system for winterizing.
Your description of the winterizing kit is accurate except that instead of "bypassing" the freshwater tank, you are actually disconnecting the FW tank.
I think it is prudent not to mix the two labels so that we all know what is being discussed. We had a previous thread where the original poster kept referring to the "bypass kit" but was actually asking questions about the winterizing kit. It made it very difficult to figure out what he was talking about at first because he had questions about both items in the same post.
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