Date:         Tue, 5 May 2009 18:38:26 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: O2 Sensor Problem - Last Week
Comments: To: Paul Connelly <vanagonhummingbird@GMAIL.COM>
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At 05:38 PM 5/5/2009, Paul Connelly wrote:
>Now to replace the internal water pump (this one only lasted about 10 "duty"
>hours after the original lasted 20 years!)

If you mean the faucet pump, the smallest available size of
submersible bilge pump (360 gph rating) works fine, lasts a long long
time, pretty quiet, same current drain, under $20.  It's built for
salt water use so it handles immersion in nice clean fresh water very
nicely.  It will pump six gpm at zero head, but the faucet chokes it
so the delivery is about the same as the original pump.  And if you
should ever need another (like the original, they can burst if frozen
hard while full of water), every penny-ante marine store in the
universe carries them.  For the first installation, of course, you
have to adapt down from the 3/4" hose barb to whatever size the
existing hose is.  Can't remember precisely how I did it in '91, but
(like the pump) it was free at the time.


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David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"