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Re: Help w/ water pumping issue...
Ok. It was a fricken old guy moment. After dropping the floor twice, changing the pump 3 times, redoing the plumbing in the basement, it turns out, I wasn’t tightening down the hose from the tank to the pump connection tight enough. Where’s the **** headslap emoji. ???????434Views0likes0CommentsRe: Help w/ water pumping issue...
wa8yxm wrote: On the inlet side of the pump ia (normally) a "Strainer" and it can be opened for cleaning and then misaligned when you close it allowing pump to suck air. Thanks. Good thinking, but there is no strainer. No filter. No anti freeze hook up. The search continueth...433Views0likes0CommentsRe: Help w/ water pumping issue...
philh wrote: was water left in the fresh water tank for an extended period of time? Have you tried blowing on the line into the tank? do you have sufficient voltage to drive the pump? I’ve put my mouth on the line coming from the tank, and I can suck water pretty easily. I’m about ready to go drop the lower floor again, and replace the water line with pex, after a THOROUGH investigation.433Views0likes0CommentsRe: Help w/ water pumping issue...
3 tons wrote: Its hard to say, but maybe you can remove the pump and mock it up say drawing from a water bucket to see if the pump is working properly... I too share your mechanical inclinations but find that this is more of a burden than a blessing because a black cloud of recurring troubles seems to perpetually hang over me :o- lol!! Lol. I hear you. Well, I tried two brand new pumps, and then last night, I borrowed my buddies pump out of his camper, and it was the same result. I can’t imagine three pumps are all having problems. It HAS to be in the plumbing somewhere. I had contacted OutfitterMfg. and for $120 per hour plus a 9 our one way drive to their shop, they’d be more than happy to look around. That makes the decision to do the work myself fairly easy... unless it ends up with me having to be admitted into the crazy ward. ??436Views0likes0CommentsHelp w/ water pumping issue...
So... This past December, as I prepared my sailboat in Mexico for our annual winter sail, I needed a new water pump. Quickest and easiest fix was to “borrow” the Shurflo pump I had in my OutfitterMfg. truck camper. Perfect fix. Upon returning to the camper, I installed a new pump. Unfortunately, it didn’t work right. Only pumping a bit of water, but lots of air. Thinking it was a defective pump, I ordered another one once back in the U.S. same deal. What could have possibly happened to my camper plumbing over the course of a winter parked in Mex. to make this happen. It’s kind of a big job to lower the floor out of the camper just to look around, so I’m asking for any ideas as to why this happened here to the collective. If it were cracked tubing allowing air into the pump, there would be a leak. There is no leak. I’m pretty damned mechanical, and this mystery has me stumped. Thanks for any help! -Waterless Brian1.4KViews0likes14Comments
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