It's too cold to do much this weekend, and I have a cold on top of that, so it seemed like a good weekend for "indoor" work--sitting inside my westy and figuring out why the city water hookup won't work. I removed the much-maligned Gowesty faucet--and there's nothing wrong with it. So I stuck the connection that went to it into a pan and hooked up the city water inlet to a hose to see if the link was, as it obviously appeared, before the faucet. Not a drop got through. So, I pulled the water filler inlet from the side of the westy and removed it with its brass fittings. Down inside the array of brass couplings I found the original westy checkvalve, and it was stuck. I quickly freed it, then went to check the plastic housing itself, with no fittings attached. Something is blocking it, too, and it seems to be another stuck checkvalve. Does anyone know how this operates? I will be able to call Gowesty tomorrow, of course, but I won't have much time to do anything about it for a while after today. What are these checkvalves for, anyway? thanks, Jim |
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