Head Problems

[Seafordguy]

Mods - feel free to move this to TECH after a little while but if you don't mind leaving here for a few hours for exposure I'd appreciate it.

My CAFE has two buttons:

One is the "flush" button that both brings water in to the bowl, and pumps it out into the waste tank.

The other button is the "discharge" button that pumps it overboard.

When I hit the discharge button everything works as it should. When I hit the "flush" button the fuse blows.

Any suggestions? Is this most likely a bad pump, or something that will probably prove to be a bigger pain in the ass, like a wiring problem?


Sidenote - lately I have been "flushing" the toilet without the intake water valve turned on, so it didn't fill up the waste tank as fast, is it possible this burned up the pump?

 

[old377guy]

indeed sounds like a jammed/blown electric motor.

 

[Seafordguy]

Thanks old377guy. I'll pull the cover off and see if I can figure out which motor is which.

 

[Sea-Dated]

One of these days I need to get the head on my Cafe' working again.

 

[cigdaze]

There's a head on cafes? It's been so long since I've used it that I doubt I could even figure out how to use it anymore. I checked if it worked when I bought the boat and it did, and I haven't touched it since. It's a nice storage locker. No one pizzes or craps on my boat. No one.

 

[Bobcat]

wow, a poop thread on the dock.:sifone:

 

[t500hps]

Mods - feel free to move this to TECH after a little while but if you don't mind leaving here for a few hours for exposure I'd appreciate it.

My CAFE has two buttons:

One is the "flush" button that both brings water in to the bowl, and pumps it out into the waste tank.

The other button is the "discharge" button that pumps it overboard.

When I hit the discharge button everything works as it should. When I hit the "flush" button the fuse blows.

Any suggestions? Is this most likely a bad pump, or something that will probably prove to be a bigger pain in the ass, like a wiring problem?


Sidenote - lately I have been "flushing" the toilet without the intake water valve turned on, so it didn't fill up the waste tank as fast, is it possible this burned up the pump?

I always knew you were full of crap.....guess you finally sprung a leak!! :rofl:

 

[Doug1]

I have the same setup on my Top Gun. I have to push both buttons at the same time to get waste to discharge overboard. Even though water is still coming in the discharge hose is larger and holding tank will empty. If I hold buttons to long it will blow a fuse also. The only way I know to fix it would be to wire each pump separetly with its own fuse.

Good luck,
Doug

 

[Seafordguy]

I have the same setup on my Top Gun. I have to push both buttons at the same time to get waste to discharge overboard. Even though water is still coming in the discharge hose is larger and holding tank will empty. If I hold buttons to long it will blow a fuse also. The only way I know to fix it would be to wire each pump separetly with its own fuse.

Good luck,
Doug

Both buttons at the same time?? That is different than mine. Mine is either one button to flush/pull fresh water in, and the different button to pump overboard (assuming the large hose valve is in the open position.

 

[Seafordguy]

I always knew you were full of crap.....guess you finally sprung a leak!! :rofl:

That's the real ***** of the whole thing is that I JUST got the toilet to stop LEAKING!

I've been chasing a small leak since I bought the boat and after the engine pull/transom assembly rebuild I finally figured out that it was the damn toilet. What really sucks is that I would always taste test the water to find out if it was salty or fresh (rain) - only now do I realize I was just tasting ****....

 

[Ratickle]

What really sucks is that I would always taste test the water to find out if it was salty or fresh (rain) - only now do I realize I was just tasting ****....

:ack2: uke: :ack2:

 

[Ms PatriYacht]

when you say; pumping it to discharge overboard, do you mean outside the boat, into the water?

 

[Seafordguy]

when you say; pumping it to discharge overboard, do you mean outside the boat, into the water?

Yeah - that pump works fine, it is the other one that blows the fuse....