[C320-list] Fresh Water Pump Keeps Failing

[Timothy Grennan]

I got sick and tired of that pump as well. I purchased a west marine brand pump of similar output. It was a little pricier but a good 3 year warranty. If there is a problem w/ the pump, the west marine store I purchased from said to walk in with it and the bill, and he would pull another off the shelf and I would be good to go. No sending the pump in, testing, blahblahblah. I am now in season two after a very hard winter in MI and as soon as the fluid hit the pump it started pumping. No priming or screwing around.
 
Hope this helps
 
cheers,
 
Tim Grennan
hull 843
Evening Star

--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Irving Grunes <igrunes at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Irving Grunes <igrunes at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Fresh Water Pump Keeps Failing
To: C320-List at catalina320.com
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 9:07 PM

How do you clean the filter???
Irv Grunes
#851

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Allan S. Field
<allan.field at verizon.net>wrote:

> Do you routinely clean out the filter?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Peter Herron
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:28 PM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: [C320-list] Fresh Water Pump Keeps Failing
>
> Can anyone recommend a good fresh water pump?  By good, I mean one
> that lasts a few years.  I've had really bad luck with the Jabsco
> Sensor Max VSD pumps.  My 5th one just failed, for an average life of
> under 10 months, a low of 2 months and a high of 16 months.
> Fortunately they had a three year warranty (I think they've reduced
> that to one year).
>
> I have no clue about the cause of failure.  They simply work one day
> and not the next.  All failures have been at the dock while connected
> to shore power through a True Charge 20 (I think that's the name)
> charger.  The tanks were never empty, the fuses were never blown,
> polarity was always correct, there was no sign of corrosion.  And
> everything else on the boat keeps on working.  On the plus side, I can
> remove the sink cabinet, change the pump and replace the cabinet in
> about 20 minutes.  Maybe blindfolded.
>
> The original equipment pump lasted 4 or 5 years before rusting out, as
> did the replacement (with the same type of pump).  Four or five years
> looks  great to me now.
>
> Any suggestions?  Shurflo?  West Marine?  Jabsco?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete Herron
> Dreamtime, C320 #329
>
>