It's too cold to do much this weekend, and I have a cold on top of
that, so it seemed like a good weekend for "indoor" work--sitting
inside my westy and figuring out why the city water hookup won't work.

I removed the much-maligned Gowesty faucet--and there's nothing wrong
with it. So I stuck the connection that went to it into a pan and
hooked up the city water inlet to a hose to see if the link was, as
it obviously appeared, before the faucet. Not a drop got through. So,
I pulled the water filler inlet from the side of the westy and
removed it with its brass fittings. Down inside the array of brass
couplings I found the original westy checkvalve, and it was stuck. I
quickly freed it, then went to check the plastic housing itself, with
no fittings attached. Something is blocking it, too, and it seems to
be another stuck checkvalve.

Does anyone know how this operates? I will be able to call Gowesty
tomorrow, of course, but I won't have much time to do anything about
it for a while after today.

What are these checkvalves for, anyway?

thanks,

Jim