Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:43:48 -0700
Reply-To: Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
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From: Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
Subject: Re: Westy sink water pump
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Not always true - my '88 CDN model Westy had the pump in the tank. I have
since changed it to a 3rd party external pump, but am considering going back
to stock because the external pump is very noisy, and loses prime.
On 17 Jul 2004 at 9:06, pete owsianowski <pnocean@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> The Canadian model is outside the tank. I just replaced my pump and faucet from
> GoWesty with the help of this list. . Very easy to hookup once you do it. The
> pump goes in the tank. The ball valve on my faucet was jammed closed so the
> pump would work but no water would come out. New faucet solved that.
>
> Pete
> '87 Westy
> "Joe's Van"
>
>
> > I'm not positive which is which but I think the American models have the pump
> > in the tank and the Canadian models have the pump outside the tank - it could
> > be the other way around??
> >
> > Markus
> >
> > Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM> 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!
> >>
>
Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D
'88 Westy 2.1L awaiting 1.6TD conversion
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