[C320-list] shower / fridge drain

[Dennis Harris]

Stephen,

This year my shower sink did not drain in early spring.  I opened the 
thruhull and using a piece of galvanized wire, I probed the line with the 
wire and eventually broke the jam.  If you do this, I found that it worked 
better (didn't hang up as bad) if I bent the end back 180 degrees (so it 
laid flat against the longer piece of wire) to give a rounded tip. Since 
there is a little curvature in the hose, the wire needs to be flexible 
enough to follow the curvature, but also stiff enough to punch out any 
obstruction.  It is possible that this might also be your problem.

Dennis Harris  C-320 #694

-----Original Message----- 
From: Stephen Cox
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 4:31 AM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] shower / fridge drain

>
> The list helped me with a related issue a few years ago
> involving the shower / fridge sump. New issue and I checked
> the archives so maybe a couple of questions will get me going.
> I am getting power to the pump under the sink ( it vibrates)
> but am not getting the shower or fridge to drain. There is a
> Jabsco "pump guard" between the Y valve and the pump. Is this
> the strainer that was mentioned in the archives? I attempted
> to remove the front but it wouldn't budge so didn't want to force  it.
> Also there was a suggestion to "clear" the hose to the pump.
> Would I remove it to the left of pump? And then what?
>
> Any ideas / suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>

Robert,

I had trouble getting my shower sump pump to prime at one stage.  It was
very awkward getting to the strainer but the cap does come off.  I had a lot
of hair, etc stuck in mine.  After clearing, the pump still wouldn't prime.
Ultimately I got the pump out and stripped it down.  There were four little
valves in mine and there was a small amount of debris caught in one or two
of them that stopped the pump priming.  Once this was all cleared the pump
worked again, thank heavens.  To service my pump I ended up taking the board
it was all mounted on out - not fun at all.  It was then that I found out
the hoses mount to the pump with a sliding lock to hold them in.  Had I
known this it would have been a lot easier than removing hose clamps
everywhere and I could have left the mounting board in place - hindsight is
a wonderful thing.

Hope this helps,

Stephen Cox
Tegwen #1141