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Manual water pump

  • 28-05-2014 8:59pm
    #1
    epfff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭


    Anyone ever have trouble with their green lister water pump?
    You know the green one for taking water from a river with cows nose
    Mine is sucking fine but the water seems to be draining out of pipe so it has to be primed everyday
    The lump of plastic at bottom of pipe seems fine
    Opened main part and all rubber seems fine
    Sorry for all the technical terms and names but vext here it will be in river tomorrow evening


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  • #2
    _Brian
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    I'm not familiar but sounds like a non return valve is passing slowly.


  • #3
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    It could be taking in a bit of air where the hose meets the pump. It (the hose) sometimes degrades here particularly if there's a bend on it.


  • #4
    ford 5600
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭ford 5600


    epfff wrote: »
    Anyone ever have trouble with their green lister water pump?
    You know the green one for taking water from a river with cows nose
    Mine is sucking fine but the water seems to be draining out of pipe so it has to be primed everyday
    The lump of plastic at bottom of pipe seems fine
    Opened main part and all rubber seems fine
    Sorry for all the technical terms and names but vext here it will be in river tomorrow evening
    I have 2 of them, one permanently in a well, other moved around but mainly in a small river. If you have a Philmac fitting on the back of the pump joining it to the pipe, make sure the Oring is ok and fitting is tight, no matter what make it is,use a bit of plumbers tape if necessary. I have found a brass footvalve as used on an electric shallow well pump a far better job than the plastic one supplied with the pasture pump. If the river has finesh sand on the bottom, it may be getting sucked in and affecting the seal. It may help if you cut a 5 gallon drum in half, put a few holes in its side to let in the water, put it on riverbed and then put the footvalve into that . The diaphpram give very little trouble, should last 10 years. A great simple tool for somewhere with no electricity.


  • #5
    epfff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭epfff


    ford 5600 wrote: »
    I have 2 of them, one permanently in a well, other moved around but mainly in a small river. If you have a Philmac fitting on the back of the pump joining it to the pipe, make sure the Oring is ok and fitting is tight, no matter what make it is,use a bit of plumbers tape if necessary. I have found a brass footvalve as used on an electric shallow well pump a far better job than the plastic one supplied with the pasture pump. If the river has finesh sand on the bottom, it may be getting sucked in and affecting the seal. It may help if you cut a 5 gallon drum in half, put a few holes in its side to let in the water, put it on riverbed and then put the footvalve into that . The diaphpram give very little trouble, should last 10 years. A great simple tool for somewhere with no electricity.

    If it was fitting at back would it not be sucking air when pumping?
    Also forgot to say when half pumped you cam hear air getting in


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