T&T: water pump problems

[Vance Nelson]

Have you checked the strainers on your faucets?  If you had crud in your
tank, it may have nested in the little strainer on your sink faucet.  Take
off the strainer and see what happens.

Does the pump continue to run forever or does it shut off?  If it shuts off,
the pressure is what is shutting it off and you have some sort of
restriction (plugged) output between the pump and the faucets.

Even if the accumulator tank were bad, you would still get water flow.  The
accumulator is just a form of storage tank that keeps the pump from cycling
with low water flows.

Vance Nelson
Superior Dreams GB 32-340

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces at lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of ed
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:08 PM
To: Trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com
Subject: T&T: water pump problems

My new to me boat was pumping fresh water OK until yesterday. Now I can't 
get flow, nothing was changed. The problem is on the input side of the 
system. It's not an airlock, I took off the filler caps to the tanks and 
that didn't help. Plus it's both tanks. I put in a rebuild kit (sureflow 
3.3gpm) and the suction improved but still no water flow. I think it's an 
airleak around the manifold. The system has an accumulator tank and I don't 
know much about them. Is there a troubleshooting resource I can read?
Thanks

Ed K 
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