Shur flo pumps

[baldybantam]

Does anyone know how you get into the water pump on the Autosleeper Trooper? Not following the rules to check out your van a week or so before going on holiday and not having used the water pump for some time because of a house move, we filled the water tank, put on the pump, it makes a whirring noise but no water is coming out. Curses fill the air and the water has to be emptied out again.

We did carry on with our break to North Ledaig, Oban, just carrying water bottles. Someone there has suggested we try to put water down from the tap end, my husband hasn't tried doing this yet, if it fails, we will have to replace the pump. We would rather do this than have to put the van on the market and say the pump isn't working.

I don't know if attached photo will upload, this was taken a few years ago at a Forestry Commission site in Balmacara which has since closed. We don't know what has happened to it. It was a good site, better than the one on the main road at Balmacara, plenty of walks from it. We did encounter our first batch of midges as we were under trees. Now, if going on holiday during the midge season, we take one of the ultra violet fly killers you see on sale. They work beautifully, in the morning you brush out hundreds of the wee blighters. ;D

OK don't think photo has uploaded, try
www.margaret-thomson.com/autosleeper-trooper/midgehell-balmacara.jpg

[Derek]

Hi Margaret

If you have found the pump it may be worth checking the water hose connections (unions) for leaks. They can become loose after the winter. If not, mains water pressure on the tap end to force out any air in the system.

Hope this helps

Derek

[baldybantam]

Thanks, this is our main problem, how to get in at the pump. It seems to be somewhere beneath the cupboard to the right of the sink and/or in the small drawer looking cupboard immediately underneath the sink. If we could get in at the pump, we could even buy a replacement one from shur flo for my husband to fit.

I did contact Autosleeper by email, still waiting on a reply. We've waited so long on the reply I would say it won't be forthcoming. Probably they don't want to impart that information.

We did speak to a reasonably local caravan park, they do repairs/habitation checks, their advice was it could be the diaphram (spelling), in that case, it would be just as cheap to replace the whole pump and they were quoting about £150 to do it.

Pity firms don't supply a breakdown explosion of motor caravans etc.

I don't know if I have posted this in the right section, maybe should have been Technical.

Thank you for your interest.

[Derek]

Sorry I can't help, looks like the bed may need to come out, the pumps are abt £60 from Oleary so a £150 quote suggests the job is not a quick one.

Romahome are not very good at answering emails either.

I expect you have the Autosleeper Club link, the others may help though.

www.asoc.fsnet.co.uk/
www.olearymotorhomes.co.uk/
www.rainbowconversions.co.uk/Equipment/Water/water.htm

[baldybantam]

Success

My husband has found the shurflo pump in the Autosleeper Trooper. It is situated behind the cupboard where the portapotti is kept with the pipework running through the cupboard beside it to the right. We now have the name of the pump, have looked at the web site of Oleary's so far and liked the price.

We still have to try to put water down from the tap end first.

Funny how men like to take things to bits - he has been unscrewing things all afternoon!!