Sink not working; any tips would help

[andrewvwco]

Hey everyone hope all is ok been working on the van 1985. My sink is not working. I added water since it was drained all winter into the travel tank and nothing. Battery is green and enough water over pump. My faucet has no knob to turn from city to travel. What am I missing do I need to fill both tanks or prime it or plug something in? All ends look connected could pump be done? Thanks for reading

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[kourt]

See those yellow wires resting on the cabinet shelf in your fourth photo? There's a clue. Try to get your head up in there and find where they plug into the faucet base. Just a hail Mary suggestion from right field, but who knows.

kourt

[Jeffrey Lee]

Before doing that, insert a U-shaped paper clip into the connector to 'jump' the two yellow wires and complete the circuit. You should hear the water pump activate, and see water enter the supply lines and faucet (make sure the faucet is physically opened, or the valve may prevent water movement).

If that checks out, plug it into the faucet as suggested and you should be good.

If not, you'll need to start tracing wires / current to determine where the fault is.

EDIT: I'm also curious about your reference to "two tanks." Stock only has one supply tank; do you have two? Might be a PO mod that further complicates troubleshooting.
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[andrewvwco]

So I jumped the yellow connecter and nothing. I thought the van had a big fill travel tank and a smaller one for city plug. Does the city garden hose attachment not the lock box tank not have any tank just a constant flow?
Where is the plug near the sink is there supposed to be something their?
Thank you.
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[Timwhy]

How's your tank's wiring? Next compartment over from the fill.

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[SCM]

City water hose just runs straight to the faucet when connected to an outside source. There’s only one tank and it’s the one in your photos.
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[jimf909]

if your pump makes no noise then either it's not getting power or it's kaput. It can easily be killed by accidentally turning it on with an empty tank, not realizing that and spinning the pump until it expires.

Before getting into all the wires, try sending 12 volts directly to the pump (un plugging it at the harness and jumping power there. if it doesn spin then it sounds like you need a $30 pump.

https://www.vancafe.com/VCSUBSINKPUMP-p/vcsubsinkpump.htm
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[andrewvwco]

Ok thanks will order a new pump soon I took it ok to try and make it spin no luck and jumping the wire no noise.
Yes the problem seems to be the pump not working.
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[69vanagonman]

This is a manual sink faucet

So hand-action pumps the water out the faucet

Lift that white-lever up and down and it should let out water on the lift-up

No electric cabling, etc is needed

[kourt]

This is an old post, but you're wrong.

The first photo shows the blue 12v electric pump with a white 2-conductor wire set at the end of a feeder hose to the faucet.

Unless, someone converted it, and left all the old 12v stuff in there. Then you might be right.

kourt
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