Shurflow Pump Help/Advice, please

Hi Geoff:

All good here buddy, how about you?

Just getting ready for the big one .. heading to Perth for a reunion with my Viet mates, then up the west coast. Wife has 6 months long service leave, then retires, so it's all good.

I will give the pump a hit with a garden hose tomorrow and see how that goes. Good tip .. thanks for that.

Take care of yourself.

Jack

I'm really good mate,

Great to hear your doing some travelling and keeping in touch with your army mates. Won't pretend to understand the journey you blokes have been on.

Sounds like with your wife retiring and the kids grown up there's no holding you!

I'm planning my next adventure to Fraser Island, Simpson, further out time wise the Canning.

Bought and sold a 105 Series Cruiser. Now hunting for what I really wanted, a late model RV Troop Carrier.

Go for it,
If you need a pump fast, give me a yell I've got one of similar spec's to the Flow Jet. Different brand. You're welcome to give it a go.

Geoff.

Geoff:

You are going to my favourite place ... Fraser. Was up there in October last and earlier in the year as well (May I think).

I usually stay at Dunbubara, although I did find a nice spot on the southern side of Happy Valley last trip, and my mate and I stopped there for two days.

Thanks for the offer of the pump .. this one is brand new, so it is a "mission" to get it working properly. Tomorrowo is another day : )

Cheers
Jack

Have had a similar problem in the past if the pump has sat unused for a while. I found the solution to be as previously mentioned - connect her up to the garden tap and give it a good flush through and prime, as mentioned, go easy on the pressure.

Regards
Ian

Shall do again, although I did check them out pretty thoroughly earlier. They are a sort of "snap on" fitting (comes with the Twine unit) and are practically new, so I may not have given them the attention they deserve.

Alternatively a call to Shurflow tomorrow to suss them out on it.

As they say in the classics .... "it'll be alright on the night".

Thanks.

Jack

Hi Pesty:

There is a small filter, which I have cleaned out in case that was the problem. No joy there. but I will take on board your thoughts about they being easy to pull apart. That can be on tomorrow's agenda.

It worked great the only time I used it (not long after I installed it) so I am thinking it is gunk somewhere along the line.

I will call Shurflow early then set to work. Going to be away for a good while, so I will probably need a bit of a clean up .. better goet it working. : )

thanks for your help.

Jack

Jack,
I had a few early probs with my twine too....the pump wouldn't suck. John Twine sent me a new diaphram for the pump (easy to fit) and that worked okay; but they do dry out if not used regularly.

Anyway still had some probs again another time and, same as you, if I could get the feed water high enough to gravity feed, all was ok. That was no good in the long term so I bought a little squeeze pump like they use for pumping fuel between a fuel tank into a outboard motor. I mounted that in the red Woolie's box/crate that i use for showering. I also mounted one of those in-line black coloured filters from a garden irrigation set-up. These both "live" in the bottom of the crate and have a 90o elbow joint to which is attached a short length of green garden hose (just enough to reach the top of the crate) and a male half inch garden hose fitting on top. This whole thing is held in place by a screw-up hose clamp through 2 slits in one corner of the crate. The hose I use is mounted permanently under the bonnet on the pump (coiled up on top of air cleaner) and has a female hose fitting on it.

When it's time for a tub, I fit the hose fitting onto the crate full of water, give the squeezy pump a few pumps with the Shuflo motor running and it all works ok. It still farts a bit, but I will eventually get around to finding out why that is.

I think the secret is to run the pump very often (like once a week).

Cheers

Roachie

Hi scooter:

I am hoping that is not the case, but will be having a play around this afternoon. Theoreticaly it is still under warranty (2 years), but I guess the devil is in the detail.

I will work on the "air leak" today and see how I go. I am now in touch with Shurflow/Twine, so will keep y'all posted.

Thanks for your input though. Much appreciated.

Jack