Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:16:25 -0400
Reply-To: Spencer Allen <spencervw@AOL.COM>
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From: Spencer Allen <spencervw@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: why is water squirting from city hook up
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Thanks for the reply's Jim & all. Thing is I have never used the city hook up and did a oem faucet replacement about two years ago. So the check valve in the city hook up, if bad, will cause water to leak from there when I operate the faucet inside the van?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tue, Sep 22, 2015 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: why is water squirting from city hook up
What I actually mean Stuart is the conglomeration of brass fitting BEHIND
the
hookup that is accessed by removing the screws from the outside of the
vehicle
and pulling it out a bit. Get that out and in a vice and take it
apart. It
could always be split plastic, of course, but that usually
happens first thing
in the spring when the car is put into use after a
freeze.
Jim
On Tue,
Sep 22, 2015 at 3:53 PM Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
Jim,
>
>
>
> I think you mean the hook up, not the faucet. Last time I
looked at a
> Delta Six faucet it was a glued together assembly except for the
knob.
>
>
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> *From:* Jim Felder
[mailto:jim.felder@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:31 PM
>
*To:* Stuart MacMillan; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
> *Subject:* why is water
squirting from city hook up
>
>
>
> I think it's the check valve in the
brass fittings just inside the delta
> six faucet. You can easily take it
apart, clean it and put it back
> together. Just a ball and a spring. Likely no
need to replace it.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:33 PM
Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> That's a bad check valve
in the city water hookup box, which I assume is
> the original Delta Six
design. Time for a replacement, and I highly
> recommend the Go Westy
replacements:
>
http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=23580&category_id=127&category_parent_id=
>
>
It's unlikely to leak into the van, so you could just cap it off with a
> hose
end cap if you don't use city water.
>
> Stuart
>
>
> ---- Spencer Allen
<spencervw@AOL.COM> wrote:
> > Hi all.The last few times I filled the water
tank in my 85 westy and
> then turn on the faucet water squirts out - more like
dribbles- from under
> the flap where you would attach a hose for city water. I
don't think there
> would be much back pressure from the small pump that would
force water out
> at the connection. It dribbles down the outside of the van
but I'm worried
> it also may be leaking down the inside behind the kitchen.
Any ideas on
> this?
> > spencer
>
> --
> David McNeely
>
>
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