>  Date:    8/7/99 11:04:38 PM CDT
>  From:    keepsake@PANGEA.CA (Roy O.)
>
>  Since recently replacing the city water connection fitting on the outside
> of my
>  '87 Westfalia, water leaks out of it whenever I turn on the sink water pump
>  inside the van to get water from the fresh water storage tank. I double-
> checked
>  and triple-checked the exterior city water connection for tightness, no
> problem
>  there. I suspect the problem is within the faucet itself. Does anyone know
> if
>  there are any "user serviceable" parts in the faucet?
>
>  Roy O.

I think there's supposed to be a backflow preventer ("check valve")
inside the city water connection itself, to prevent water from flowing
out of it.  I assum that's why the Westfalia manual says to stick a
screwdriver into the connector to drain the water in Winter - the
screwdriver opens the check valve.  Could yours be stuck open?

I also assumed that turning the faucet to either "off" or "pump" would
keep the city water turned off, but I don't know for sure.

Try this: with the tank empty, run the pump until no more water comes
out.  Hook up the city water and turn on the hose.  Now turn the faucet
to "pump" again (but only for a few seconds - you don't want to burn out
the pump by running it dry for long).  If water comes out the faucet, then
the faucet's letting water leak between the "city" and "tank" lines.  I don't
know for sure if it's supposed to do that or not, but I wouldn't have
thought so.

I removed my faucet (which wasn't working right) and replaced it with
a Sureflo that I like much better.  The original doesn't look very user
servicable to me - I don't see any way of getting into it short of actually
cutting the plastic with a saw.

                                                    -Steven Sittser