Water pressure is lacking

[Glenn996]

I have a 2014 Sunset Trail 29SS. We love it and have camped 30 nights this summer so far. On 2 trips where we were dry camping, I noticed the water pressure is incredibly lousy. When hooked up to city water it's fine everywhere in the trailer. When on pump it sucks everywhere. I'm guessing there's a kink somewhere, but thought I'd ask before I start tracing water lines from the pump. Any ideas?

[Beamer5]

Sounds pretty typical to me. If you had a kink it would be lousy all the time even with city water.

[Stan]

Just thinking out loud here but it sounds like an issue near the pump, water tank and city hookup. I assume these are in the same vicinity within your rig. Try placing a bucket of clean water at the pump and sucking it up with the winterizing hose. If your pressure/volume returns that might indicate that the problem is in the fresh water line going to the pump from the water tank. It may be kinked.

[Hunter11]

This post might be of some help.



http://forums.crossroadsrv.com/forum...-factory#59806

[Lloyd]

If you don't find a kinked line to be the problem here's another thought. The pump on our rig has a filter, occasionally I've had to take it off and clean the screen. It seems to suck up debris from the tank and it will plug the screen.

[Chuck N. Wined]

You might check the valve that switches the water intake from the tank to the rv antifreeze hose. I had a similar issue 1 time. I had apparently bumped the valve while moving things around in the storage near the pump and it was partly open which caused it to draw a little bit of air instead of just water. The pressure was weak but suprisingly it didn't sputter at the faucet. My guess is that the intake hose is kinked like everyone says but you might want to check.
Lonnie

[Kevin from K]

Might be overly simple but I had the same problem and finally checked all the restrictors and screens on the faucets an found the fouled with hard water deposits. Cleaned them all, bathroom and kitchen and the problem was solved.



Good luck!

[Glenn996]

Thanks for the input. I'm taking it out next week so will spend some time trying to track it down. Thanks again.