Date:         Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:35:15 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: westy kitchen operation
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On Aug 10, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Florian Speier wrote:

> hi list,
>
> i wanted to keep these stupid questions off the list and ordered  a
> camper manual from vw but they send me the weekender edition so i
> still dont know hoe my kitchen works. sorry.
> i figured the gas range and have many instructions for the fridge but
> i cannot figure the water thing.
> there seem to be two water inlets but one is locked????

Yep. GoWesty.com has the key, and I'm sure some listmember vendors will
pop up as a result of your post.
> what kind of
> key and what are two inlets good for???

One inlet (the one that doesn't lock) has a connection for a standard
(in the US, anyway) garden hose. You will use this when you are camping
where there is "city water" in the form of a regular water spigot that
the other end of the hose attaches to. You'd be wise to use a small
pressure regulator if you're going to use this option. It allows you to
NOT carry your own water (you'll get better mileage, not run out, etc.)
To allow water to flow to your sink with this option, turn the handle
on the sink valve to the T (town) position.

Turning the faucet handle the other direction (your three positions are
town, internal electric pump, and off in between the other two) should
start the electric pump either in the water tank or under the sink,
depending on the model or your camper.

Using the electric pump only works, of course, if there is water in the
water tank, which is housed in the cabinet just in front of the closet.
In fact, if you open up the lid right in front of the closet you can
see a metal cover screwed down to the cabinet "bottom." If you remove
it, you can unscrew the large lid and see the inside of the tank. You
could fill it from here (if you can't locate a key) but the keyed
inlet, the one that is locked, allows you to slip a hose (but not a
connector, so you'll need one of those plastic filler hoses from the
camper aisle) into it to fill the tank. Water comes out the overflow
under the same lid as the filler when the tank is full.

Don't expect the LEDs to work without water in the tank. Use the
internal filling procedure I described above to test and see if it
works at all.

the reason the water inlet locks, by the way, is so that nobody can
either purposefully or accidentally contaminate your drinking water.

Jim
> the faucet seems to have three positions -  what is that? and then
> thre are these LEDs on the front of the kitchen compartment... nothing
> lit up so far, when are they supposed to and what is broken if they
> don't?
>
> please give me an insight on these matters....
>
> florian
>
> 87 westy (in usa)
> 92 eurovan mv (in germany)
>