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Old 08-11-2024, 08:57 PM   #1
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Water Pump

We have a 2019 forest river rockwood hard wall tent trailer.

Water pump doesn’t seem to be pumping water to the sink or shower head. Pump is running but spitting water out of the taps like the water tank is empty but I have filled it full.

Wonder if there’s air in the tank?

Tips appreciated

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Old 08-29-2024, 02:32 PM   #2
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Could be 4 reasons.


1 - Sounds like air is getting into the suction side of the pump. If you have a water pump with an in-line filter with the glass cap make sure there are no small cracks in the glass cap. You could also remove the in-line filter to see if that fixes the problem.


2 - If removing the in-line filter it does not fix the issue you may have a pin hole or air leak in the line leading to the tank.


3 - Your pump needs primed. It has air in the pump it is not able to get out on it's own to start a good suction from the tank. Take a hose with 1/2 fitting on the end. Attach fitting to suction side of the pump and hold the hose up and pour water into it until the pump starts pumping correctly. Once it is primed, turn it off, hook back up, turn on and run water to get it pulling from tank.


4 - Bad Pump. A frozen pump might still run but the internals may be broken. I don't think that's the case though, 99% of the time its one of the other reasons.
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Old 08-29-2024, 02:37 PM   #3
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If you ran your tank "dry", it probably lost prime as he said above in #3. Lucky for me, I did this once and discovered I can run my hose to the antifreeze port and this will prime the pump. I simply hook the hose there then run my sink for a bit, then turn on the pump and this primes it.
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Old 08-29-2024, 03:47 PM   #4
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We have a 2019 forest river rockwood hard wall tent trailer.

Water pump doesn’t seem to be pumping water to the sink or shower head. Pump is running but spitting water out of the taps like the water tank is empty but I have filled it full.

Wonder if there’s air in the tank?


Tips appreciated

Tammy Briggs
What is the model number of your Rockwood?
Also did you mean "high" wall, not "hard" wall? Hard wall would not be a tent trailer.
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Old 09-04-2024, 07:33 PM   #5
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We have the same issue going on, never considered priming the Pump.
Will give it a try the next time We pull it out of the Barn.
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