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.
vince56 said
12:32 PM Oct 10, 2022
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.
Dutty said
12:38 PM Oct 10, 2022
Thanks Vince we will try that.
Greg 1 said
01:31 PM Oct 10, 2022
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.
I had to do this on our last trip.
Whenarewethere said
02:26 PM Oct 10, 2022
Not for a tap, but I have used a pair of female non return hose fittings for in principle similar reasons. They work really well.
Hi all,
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.
Thanks Vince we will try that.
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.
I had to do this on our last trip.
Not for a tap, but I have used a pair of female non return hose fittings for in principle similar reasons. They work really well.