Introducing… The Top Leather Gaskets!

So I have been struggling to get my water pump working and get water flowing to my house for days (and days).

Today, the weather was nice and tomorrow I have to go into town anyway, so I took apart the last possible thing that could be causing the issue – check the top leather gaskets (doesn’t that sound like some S&M accapella group?)

So I took the whole pump apart, pulled that piece, and carried it inside to dismantle – only to find the leathers were not there, nor the brass washer/nuts (this post is sounding far too dirty– maybe it’s because I have no water)

So I panicked, then retraced my steps through the snow …nothing. Back into the pump house. Force my hand down into the piping which carries the water up.

Into the near frozen water I forced my hand, crushed together until I was up to the mid-point on my forearm – worried I would never get it out again.

And there I felt the smooth round washer. I wiggled my fingers until I could grasp it, then slowly and carefully pulled my hand out.

I got it!

Now I only had to do it three more times.

It turned out to be four times because I just couldn’t believe that the leathers themselves were simple gone -  they are.

But luckily I have the more expensive, harder to replace brass pieces.

Tomorrow I will hunt down replacment leathers – put the pump together and … still not have water because the resevoir needs rplacing and that is going to be something the S&M accapella group  would find too dirty and awful to crone about.

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