Water pump is on NO water pressure, Help!
Tuesday we just purchased our 3rd 5th wheel in 4 years. The "new" one is a 2004 Forest River Wildcat 29BHBP. Purchased from a large repulable dealer who says they checked everything to be in working ...
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Thank you everyone for all the suggestions! It's so nice to have such a great group of knowelable people in our RV "family".
After trying several of the suggestions we decided the pump must be bad. The RV repair shop is close to an hour away and closed at noon on Saturday's anyway. SO...got thinking that our "old" RV is sitting right next to our "new" RV (old one is leaving Tuesday) we know that the pump in the old RV was working just fine last time we used it so thinking that it would be faster to pull the pump out of the old RV and attach it to the new RV and see what happens. (it was the exact same pump) Then we would know if it was the pump or some phantom valve or something else in the system of the new RV. Guess what, the old pump worked just perfectly in the new RV! Ran for a few seconds pressurized the system and shut off just like it should. So since it works just fine it must be that the "new" Rv's pump was bad.
Now like I said at the first of this post we bought the RV on Tuesday and we were told everything was checked. (Paid for this service check too) I am guessing what happend is they hooked it to city water, filled and checked for leaks. Then turned on the pump heard it run saw a water come out the taps (which was already pressurized from the city water being hooked up) and called it good and working. When in reality it wasn't. I have a hard time thinking that all was well and good on Tuesday and the first time we use it it's broken. But I guess it's possible. Something has to break every time we use our rigs right?
Of course the dealer will hear about this on Monday!
We didn't try taking the pump apart, just left the one in from our old RV.
For now thanks to all of you, it seems to be working.
After trying several of the suggestions we decided the pump must be bad. The RV repair shop is close to an hour away and closed at noon on Saturday's anyway. SO...got thinking that our "old" RV is sitting right next to our "new" RV (old one is leaving Tuesday) we know that the pump in the old RV was working just fine last time we used it so thinking that it would be faster to pull the pump out of the old RV and attach it to the new RV and see what happens. (it was the exact same pump) Then we would know if it was the pump or some phantom valve or something else in the system of the new RV. Guess what, the old pump worked just perfectly in the new RV! Ran for a few seconds pressurized the system and shut off just like it should. So since it works just fine it must be that the "new" Rv's pump was bad.
Now like I said at the first of this post we bought the RV on Tuesday and we were told everything was checked. (Paid for this service check too) I am guessing what happend is they hooked it to city water, filled and checked for leaks. Then turned on the pump heard it run saw a water come out the taps (which was already pressurized from the city water being hooked up) and called it good and working. When in reality it wasn't. I have a hard time thinking that all was well and good on Tuesday and the first time we use it it's broken. But I guess it's possible. Something has to break every time we use our rigs right?
Of course the dealer will hear about this on Monday!
We didn't try taking the pump apart, just left the one in from our old RV.
For now thanks to all of you, it seems to be working.
