Water pump randomly runs for short bursts
Greetings all, I've had two campers in my life and the first one I had was pretty rough and had lots of issues. One was that the water pump would randomly run for a second or so, which I didn't have...
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TheLostBoy wrote:CA Traveler wrote:
Could be the check valve. I installed a better quality one from HD.
Hmm, I'm not sure what that is as I just see the pump. Could the check valve be part of the pump?
Yes. People on here often talk about the check valve and perhaps they have an additional one, but diaphragm pumps are nothing but a couple of check values and a solenoid. If you are even slightly mechanically inclined you can take the pump head apart and make sure it's all clean in there. It only takes a small crumb of plastic debris to cause it to leak back.
Some have installed a check valve on the suction side of the pump to stop a leaking pump but that's more of a workaround than a solution to a bad pump.
