Same on the O'Day 272 LE....only ours never worked from the beginning so we purchased a repair kit and it still did not work so we purchased a small electric water pump to pump the icebox water to the sink where it goes overboard, not into the bilge....in fact the elec. ice box pump saved us last week when our AC water pump cracked open filled the starboard
lazarette with water (over the battery compartment and we grabbed the elec. pump.to pump out the compartment...our automatic bilge pump was trying to remove all the water, but there was too much shooting out the side of the March pump...all ended up okay, but I'm replacing the pump of course.....have a new one on order....btw, it was all my fault as in
thinking about this I realized I had not winterized the AC system....and this was the pumps first use this summer...shame on me....had winterized everything else, but not the AC system.....I'll do better next year.