Date:         Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:00:10 -0700
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: kitchen 12 volt question
Comments: To: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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On 3/11/05 13:55, "Stan Wilder" <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> I bought a $12.95 submersible bilge pump from Wal mart.
> It's lasted ten years and just drops into the tank and hangs there on the
> wires and hose just like the FuFu special vanagon/westy pump.
> It puts out plenty of water and has never failed.
> 
> Stan Wilder
> Engine Ceramics
> 214-352-4931
> www.engineceramics.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jimt" <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: kitchen 12 volt question
> 
> 
> On 3/11/05 6:55, "Mark Cumnock" <kayakwesty@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> 
>> it is an 84 westy with the blue pump, it does have water coming out, but
>> not strong
>> 
>> 
> Blue pump sounds like the orginal pump.  Check around the RV world and you
> will find 10 year old pumps are on the unusual side.  If the pump is pumping
> but does not get all the way up to the top then the pump is probably dead.
> Most of those small pumps are supposed to do about 1 gal per minute at a 24
> or 36 inch head. (however I have found that .6 to.75 gallon at sink height
> to be more realistic)
> ........................................
> jimt
> Planned insanity is best.
> Remember that sanity is optional.
> http://www.tactical-bus.info (tech info)
> http://www.westydriver.com
> 


Didn¹t the 84 still have the external pump??

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