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KFT


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WATER PROBLEM


This question is also posted in the general forum. Cindy might like to merge the two for ease of viewing.

I have replied in the "other" thread

frank

edit: my sincere apology Cindy for misleading you. This topic was posted in the general part of Baby Boomers not GN's.



-- Edited by KFT on Sunday 6th of January 2013 10:49:08 PM

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Can any body help? I have not used the inside water pump for a long time so yesterday after filling up the tanks find that when turned on the water comes back out the mains fill connecter, any idear people?



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No Mud wasp blockages? any recent electrical work done and polarity changed by accident,positive for negative possibly.



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Hi Yuglamron, mud wasp not sure were they could do anything, power wise nothing has changed.

Have been on town water  for months, took hose off as always and that was that till I turned on the 12volt water pump inside as I always do and found it was not stopping so had a look for a leak and found the water was pumping out of were the hose was pluged on, not being a plumber that's seems a bit strange to me as plug in mains is diffrent than the water tanks.



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Hi KFT,  I have looked in the genaral forum and found nothing, I only put it in the Tec Corner as far as I now.hmm



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Sounds like the non-return valve between the hose connector & pump outlet line is stuck open. If you can locate it, a couple of sharp taps with a shifter or similar will often free it up. If not, it will require replacing

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Thanks all you guys for your input, I have found a non return valve under my sink close tomy pump, have bashed it 3 or 5 times but still the same, loks like I will have to replace it.

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Hi the washer in the tap hasn't seized shut and it's building up back pressure?? just a thought.

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Thanks for that Steve, no all the taps work well with running water and turn off.



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briggspc wrote:

Thanks all you guys for your input, I have found a non return valve under my sink close tomy pump, have bashed it 3 or 5 times but still the same, loks like I will have to replace it.


 Is it repairable?



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hi had the same problem on the road  used a ten cent in a hose tap fitting to stop

water coming back out of filling tap  took none return valve off at home unscrewed

a few turns on the end put it back no problems

     suenray



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Well this one is for the books guys if you have a Jayco Westport like I have, on the advice from every one I ever talked to regarding this problem and it all made sence to me I bought a new non return valve and put it on, guess what, did not fix the problem! asked a caravan repair man in Busselton about the problem and it seems on this Jayco it has 2 non return valves, the one I could not find was behind the filling connecter were the hose goes on inside under a seat next to batterys and a power supply and its very small.
Now I am happy.biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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No problem with the Non Return however the Jayco heritage has the same "behind the filling connecter" and it also has a second small inline mesh filter. Had no pressure into van took ages to find the bludger then had to dismantle the lot to get to it to clean it. Why have two screen filters 25mm apart.

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