Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:31:48 -0500
Reply-To: "Roy O." <keepsake@PANGEA.CA>
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From: "Roy O." <keepsake@PANGEA.CA>
Subject: Re: City Water Connection Leak
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Thanks for your input, Steven.
It appears that the pump is allowing water to flow out the faucet as well as
leak into the city water line, then leak down the exterior of the van. I also
don't know if this is abnormal. I checked the ball valve in the city water
connection. It's not binding or stuck open. Maybe the spring has lost it's
tension and cannot hold the ball firmly enough to seal. Whatever the case, I
solved my problem by fashioning a plug from a wine bottle cork and shoving it
into the city water connection orifice. It doesn't leak anymore, although I
can't use the city water hook-up either, but then I've only used it once in
eleven years anyway. No big loss for me.
Roy O.
'87 Westfalia
('till death us do part)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ssittservl@aol.com <Ssittservl@aol.com>
To: keepsake@pangea.ca <keepsake@pangea.ca>; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
<vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: City Water Connection Leak
|> Date: 8/7/99 11:04:38 PM CDT
|> From: keepsake@PANGEA.CA (Roy O.)
|>
|> Since recently replacing the city water connection fitting on the outside
|> of my
|> '87 Westfalia, water leaks out of it whenever I turn on the sink water pump
|> inside the van to get water from the fresh water storage tank. I double-
|> checked
|> and triple-checked the exterior city water connection for tightness, no
|> problem
|> there. I suspect the problem is within the faucet itself. Does anyone know
|> if
|> there are any "user serviceable" parts in the faucet?
|>
|> Roy O.
|
|I think there's supposed to be a backflow preventer ("check valve")
|inside the city water connection itself, to prevent water from flowing
|out of it. I assum that's why the Westfalia manual says to stick a
|screwdriver into the connector to drain the water in Winter - the
|screwdriver opens the check valve. Could yours be stuck open?
|
|I also assumed that turning the faucet to either "off" or "pump" would
|keep the city water turned off, but I don't know for sure.
|
|Try this: with the tank empty, run the pump until no more water comes
|out. Hook up the city water and turn on the hose. Now turn the faucet
|to "pump" again (but only for a few seconds - you don't want to burn out
|the pump by running it dry for long). If water comes out the faucet, then
|the faucet's letting water leak between the "city" and "tank" lines. I don't
|know for sure if it's supposed to do that or not, but I wouldn't have
|thought so.
|
|I removed my faucet (which wasn't working right) and replaced it with
|a Sureflo that I like much better. The original doesn't look very user
|servicable to me - I don't see any way of getting into it short of actually
|cutting the plastic with a saw.
|
| -Steven Sittser
|
| 
