I am not very proficient at posting but I need some advice. We are currently on the road at Lightning Ridge and our water pump is playing up. it is a Shurflo 12v and when we turn on the pump and then a tap we find that water starts spewing out from the intake pipe (where you connect to mains water when available). it stops when we turn the pump off. Can anyone advise what is going on and how we should fix it? Thanks.
You would probably have a non-return valve (a brass fitting) just behind the mains water inlet, that fitting is probably stuck "open", instead of stopping your pumped water from exiting the pipe in reverse.
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Quick fix if you cannot get the non return vaive unstuck and cannot get a new one.
Buy two female garden hose fittings with the stop valve in them. Link them together with a very short piece of hose. Snap them onto your mains water inlet. That will stop the pump pushing the water out of the inlet. It acts as a temporary non return valve until you can get the proper one replaced.
