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Subject:Re: Westy sink water pump
From:pete owsianowski
Date:Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:06:32 -0500

The Canadian model is outside the tank.  I just replaced my pump and faucet
from GoWesty with the help of this list. .  Very easy to hookup once you do
it.  The pump goes in the tank.  The ball valve on my faucet was jammed
closed so the pump would work but no water would come out.  New faucet
solved that.

Pete
'87 Westy
"Joe's Van"

> I'm not positive which is which but I think the American models have the pump
> in the tank and the Canadian models have the pump outside the tank - it could
> be the other way around??
>
> Markus
>
> Harmon Seaver <hseaver@CYBERSHAMANIX.COM> wrote:
>
>>   My '82 westy sink pump doesn't work, or at least doesn't pump. It
>> runs, but very little comes out. I pulled it up, it's an Atwood
>> 6126. Seems to spin fine, but even putting the intake into a glass of
>> water, nothing comes out. Haven't tried yet setting up some sort of
>> priming, since the impellers look okay, maybe that's it. I'm not sure
>> this is the stock pump, and, in fact, the wiring to it looks
>> definitely non factory.
>>    Resorting to looking in Bently, I see that there is apparantly
>> supposed to be a pump in the tank itself, and it looks like there are
>> two pumps then -- is this correct? I have no pump in my tank, no wires
>> going to it, although there is the grommet in the top for the wires as
>> per the manual picture. Hmmm. I thought that was an air vent
>> previously. So why would they have two pumps, if that indeed was the
>> case?
>>    Is there a good self-priming RV pump that would work?
>>
>>
>>  --
>> Harmon Seaver
>> CyberShamanix
>> http://www.cybershamanix.com
>> Hoka hey!
>>