How do I Clean out my bilge pump AR 192

[Craf]

My bilge pump doesn't seem to pump out any water. Hit the switch and I hear a click in the engine compartment but no water comes out. I use to have a water come out after each time I clean the boat, but nothing has come out for a bout a month! Please advise on how I can check it out or clean it out.

Thanks

 

[tdonoughue]

Welcome, @Craf! Hope we can help you out; I am sure we can.

What year is your boat?

Generally, the bilge pumps are automatic and should be 'on' at the helm whenever you are on the water. It will go on for a second periodically to see if there is water (it detects the load on the pump). If there is water, it keeps pumping until it is gone; if not, it shuts off immediately.

On my boat the pump is midline aft the engines in the engine compartment. You can squeeze the sides on mine to lift the pump up and clean out the screen at the inlet to the pump. That should be done periodically anyway. While you are down there, is there water there to pump out? How much? I usually have a little 1/4" or so sitting in the bilge just from splashing, etc.

 

[Craf]

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Welcome, @Craf! Hope we can help you out; I am sure we can.

What year is your boat?

Generally, the bilge pumps are automatic and should be 'on' at the helm whenever you are on the water. It will go on for a second periodically to see if there is water (it detects the load on the pump). If there is water, it keeps pumping until it is gone; if not, it shuts off immediately.

On my boat the pump is midline aft the engines in the engine compartment. You can squeeze the sides on mine to lift the pump up and clean out the screen at the inlet to the pump. That should be done periodically anyway. While you are down there, is there water there to pump out? How much? I usually have a little 1/4" or so sitting in the bilge just from splashing, etc.

Thanks my boat is a 2014, I see a red "cap" kind of thing that says bilge is that what I can take off to clean out the screen?

 

[tdonoughue]

That is the top of the pump. The pump is probably 3-4" long and cylindrical. That red cap thing is likely attached to a white thing. That white thing is attached to a black cage-looking thing below it. That cage thing is screwed to the bottom of your boat. The black separates from the white and the whole pump will lift off to expose a screen inside the cage. That is where the screen is.

You should, of course, also make sure there is no junk around the black cage thing.

Any water in there?

 

[tdonoughue]

Ok, may be the black thing is blue.

This is likely the pump that is down there:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1BV8RFJ37VA35CBTZAJH

See the tabs to disconnect the bottom from the top?

 

[Craf]

Ok, may be the black thing is blue.

This is likely the pump that is down there:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1BV8RFJ37VA35CBTZAJH

See the tabs to disconnect the bottom from the top?

Thanks buddy!!! I found it and released how to clip it out! Really appreciate the help, cleaned out the screen and it pump out some water not much but like what I was use to seeing!

Thanks again for the help, it was really starting to worry me!!

 

[tdonoughue]

Anytime. 'Tis why we are here.

Most would recommend doing that cleaning every outing. I am bad; I do it a few times a year. But it should be a regular thing.

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