Finally got the chance to use my "portable" macerator pump yesterday. We dry camped this past weekend down at Temecula at a soccer tournament. I hooked everything up, and flipped the switch, heard the pump come on, but only a trickle of the black stuff was coming out the other end of the hose. Well, that is the Hockwald way....nothing is ever easy....LOL! I fiddled around with it for about an hour. I unhooked everything, filled up the intake plumbing so I could watch the "clean" water and see what happened....lots of sound, but very little water discharge....hmmmm...
Well, I had to get to work, so I looked at it again this morning. I unscrewed the 4 bolts holding the intake housing in place, and discovered immediately what the problem was....the gasket was installed incorrectly covering the opening that lets the water into the pump to be discharged.....I'm amazed that anything came out at all. I then reinstalled the gasket in the correct position, and put it back together, and sucess...water came out like a fire hose! So, I'll bring the coach home again this Friday and attempt, once again to empty my black tank.
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