On 19 Apr 2009, at 18:41, Martin Phillips wrote: > The water pump on Boden is kicking in every five minutes and getting > annoying to share the boat with. The reason is that pressurised > water is > leaking back through the pump to the freshwater tank. > > The pump is a Flopump FL-40. I can't find any useful information on > it. > Does anyone know a source of data or spares? > > Alternatively, can anyone see any objections to my fitting a check > valve > upstream of the pump?
If there is a leak "through" the pump I wouldn't risk it developing a leak into the boat, the bilges and getting the Rigden wet bilge syndrome. That's what happened on Uncle Mort. If you can find the right spares all well and good but for the sake of around £80/90 for a new pump, compared with what I think was £30 for a complete set of gaskets and diaphragms on the Sureflo I took the new pump option last year. And I have all the other bits except the seals which might be useful for the next breakdown. Beeky
