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Water tank problem
Posted: 18 Sep 2012, 13:59
by Pandion
Hi
Need some advice. No water coming out of the tap of my westy. There is water n the tank but no sound when I turn. The tap on. I am guessing it's the pump. I am a technical novice to all help gratefully received. Any ideas where I can get it sorted in south Wales or Essex?
As added info I have had a kind of water tank leak when filling but I think it was the top of the tank or fixings as I still had water.
Help, big trip coming up!
Re: Water tank problem
Posted: 19 Sep 2012, 23:12
by jamesandtheopenroad
Blown fuse on the tap circuit?
Re: Water tank problem
Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 08:46
by kevtherev
Or the pump has seized
Re: Water tank problem
Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 08:59
by jamesc76
sure the pumps on those are renound for not self priming, but need to pump going first!
Re: Water tank problem
Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 09:16
by 1664
Do westy's have a tap with an integral microswitch? If so, could be that.
Time to invest in a cheap multimeter perhaps
Re: Water tank problem
Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 10:08
by Mr Soft
Yes, the taps do have a built in microswitch.
Is your leisure battery charged, 'cos if not then the pump won't work.
Bob
Re: Water tank problem
Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 12:06
by ckendal
Under the sink, you will find two wires that go to your tap. Take them off and touch them together. If the pump is ok, you will hear it (pump is only a few feet away from the tap).
I suspect that either your microswitch is duff, or better still, the black plastic knob for the tap has split underneath and simply rotates, instead of turning the steel rod underneath it).
Again, this can be tested by pulling the black plastic knob off and looking at the underneath.
Mine went last year, so I replaced it with a pretty decent after market one that folds down etc.
hope that helps.....
Carl
Re: Water tank problem
Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 16:32
by AdrianC
1664 wrote:Do westy's have a tap with an integral microswitch? If so, could be that.
They certainly do - and it's where my money lies on this one.
As a stop-gap, you can just put a little external switch between the two wires - BEWARE, one of 'em is a permanent live. It's fused, but the fuses (base of the B pillar, by the driver's seat) are a bugger to source. Please don't do what somebody did to one van we looked at before we bought this one - and bung a doorbell switch onto the front panel of the cooker unit... It looked _gruesome_...
Gunzl has "original-style" taps, but we needed to get hold of a plumbing adapter to link it to the van's pipework. I don't know if that was a legacy of the swap to a different style of tap by a previous owner, though.