Date:         Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:15:44 -0700
Reply-To:     Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Sink water pump
In-Reply-To:  <OFB75E7CCF.05542738-ON85256D7F.007CD89C@hewitt.com>
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You should be able to hear the water pump spinning in
the tank - air locked, or propellers shot. Remove the
covers over the water tank and listen.  I solve the
air lock by sucking on the faucet.  Remember, at the
faucet, switch turn one way for city water and the
other way for reservior water.  If still no spinning
of the water pump, get out your volt meter and trace
the juice.  Check the fuses (behind driver's chair, on
post).  The pump is easy to take out, and if  you
convence  yourself that the pump is bad, new ones can
be had from gowesty.com (and others).  Word of
warning, under the faucet, where the hoses meet the
underside of the faucet, those nipples are VERY
fragile, don't pull the hoses off, cut them off.
Time to replace the hoses anyway.  m2cw  Malcolm


> I just bought an 84 westy but have been unable to
> get the sink working
> except when plugged in to an outside water source,
> in other words, it will
> not pump from the tank. The pump seems to be working
> fine. Is there a
> valve somewhere? I am just getting to know the van,
> so any help would be
> great!
> Wes

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