Date:         Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:21:35 -0500
Reply-To:     Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM>
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From:         Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Westy sink water pump
Comments: To: Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@pobox.com>
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  Found out the pump is okay, just not self-priming. So, I solved
this, more or less, not the most elegant solution, but it works. I
bought a brass 1/2" check valve at the hardware store, and a nylon
1/2" pipe to 3/8" hose barb, and stuck it in the end of the hose going
into the tank. So it's essentially a "foot valve".



> At 02:44 PM 7/16/2004 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >  My '82 westy sink pump doesn't work, or at least doesn't pump. It
> >runs, but very little comes out. I pulled it up, it's an Atwood
> >6126. Seems to spin fine, but even putting the intake into a glass of
> >water, nothing comes out. Haven't tried yet setting up some sort of
> >priming, since the impellers look okay, maybe that's it. I'm not sure
> >this is the stock pump, and, in fact, the wiring to it looks
> >definitely non factory.
> >   Resorting to looking in Bently, I see that there is apparantly
> >supposed to be a pump in the tank itself, and it looks like there are
> >two pumps then -- is this correct? I have no pump in my tank, no wires
> >going to it, although there is the grommet in the top for the wires as
> >per the manual picture. Hmmm. I thought that was an air vent
> >previously. So why would they have two pumps, if that indeed was the
> >case?
> >   Is there a good self-priming RV pump that would work?
> >
> >
> > --
> >Harmon Seaver
> >CyberShamanix
> >http://www.cybershamanix.com
> >Hoka hey!
>
>

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Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com
Hoka hey!