Hi Peggie,
New to the 'Head' business and a new to me boat. Just commishioned this weekend, was working great for 2 days with us only using it for urine.
About 1/2 way through our sail yesterday, only having used the head about 4 times total, we noticed that the head stopped being able to pump the water from the bowl into the holding tank. We were well enough off shore, so we ran the macerator and opened the above deck holding tank pumpout plug to try and help vent it better. We did notice some funky smells being vented, which made us a bit concerned - you could smell in the cockpit fairly strongly. We could hear the tank run dry, but still couldn't get the toilet to pump into the holding tank.
There appears to be a backflow issue and the toilet handle has pressure against it. I assume this may be an easy fix by just loosening the hoses on the toilet to relieve the pressure? Maybe we got air stuck into the line from improper syphoning? I haven't done that yet for obvious reasons of head fluid traveling back into the boat!
I didn't want to do this without checking from the greater forum first - forgive me if this is a rookie mistake and has been covered, I couldn't find it in my searches of the forum!
Thanks for any help!
New to the 'Head' business and a new to me boat. Just commishioned this weekend, was working great for 2 days with us only using it for urine.
About 1/2 way through our sail yesterday, only having used the head about 4 times total, we noticed that the head stopped being able to pump the water from the bowl into the holding tank. We were well enough off shore, so we ran the macerator and opened the above deck holding tank pumpout plug to try and help vent it better. We did notice some funky smells being vented, which made us a bit concerned - you could smell in the cockpit fairly strongly. We could hear the tank run dry, but still couldn't get the toilet to pump into the holding tank.
There appears to be a backflow issue and the toilet handle has pressure against it. I assume this may be an easy fix by just loosening the hoses on the toilet to relieve the pressure? Maybe we got air stuck into the line from improper syphoning? I haven't done that yet for obvious reasons of head fluid traveling back into the boat!
I didn't want to do this without checking from the greater forum first - forgive me if this is a rookie mistake and has been covered, I couldn't find it in my searches of the forum!
Thanks for any help!
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