ALANSUE Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Help! The motor has packed up on my Thetford toilet in the motorhome. I need to get the motor out but cannot find it. Can anyone advise where it is and how to remove it. My motorhome is a compass 150 and the thetford cassette toilet has a press button that connects the motor to provide the pink water flush. Hope you can help. Thanks Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGD Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Have you looked on the Thetford website at their downloadable instruction/user manuals for your type of toilet? (Just Google "thetford toilet") It might help you understand how it works/locate the motor or solve the problem......here's a link: http://www.thetford.com/HOME/PRODUCTS/PermanentToilets/tabid/76/Default.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney123 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 If you can be more precise and give model number etc of your Thetford it could helop. Also if you look at the Thetford web site you should be able to pull up your model with instructions etc on how to sort bits and pieces. Happy flushings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney123 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Well done BDG you just beat me to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryW Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 If you can give them a call they are very helpful and good at diagnosing problems. Not sure how old your van is but have the Thetford serial number to hand you may be lucky under warranty, I was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camperadi Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 motor for mine was in the flushing water tank and was accessed by removing the toilet roll holder.This was on a bench type cassette toilet yours sounds like it might be newer. Mine turned out to be the switch not the motor. I found this out after fitting a motor :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 ALAN&SUE I'm guessing that your toilet is a C-200CWE model. If that's correct, then selecting the "C-200" entry in the Cassette Toilets list on this webpage: http://www.thetford-europe.com/web/show/id=86252/langid=42 will provide good drawings of the guts of that toilet (Part 30 is the pump). If you go to this webpage http://www.thetford-europe.com/web/show/id=91559/langid=42 and click on "Switch" in the C-200 CWE section, that will show how to remove the press-button section. It looks like you'll then have to remove what's beneath the press-button section to allow you to fish out the pump from the flush-water reservoir. (You are sure it's the motor that's the problem, not just a failed 3A fuse in the roof of the cassette-locker?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tracker Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 The 'lid' on the flush tank unit inside the washroom is held on with a mastic and is not too hard to lever off without causing damage. If you are careful it will reseal on the same mastic without leaking - or at least mine did! The pump is at the bottom on the end of a flexible tube and 12v cable and is not hard - but quite fiddly - to get off and out at which point you can check the filter and impeller for foreign objects and general crud before bench testing it to check the motor. New pumps are stocked by many caravan accessory shops or you can buy online - but, as with all things Thetford - they ain't cheap! Sometimes the pump just 'sticks' and sometimes a good thump on the bottom of the holding tank is enough to jar them into action - but only if you are very lucky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALANSUE Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 THANK YOU! I will get to this over the holiday period....thanks to all who helped. Once sorted I will let you know how I got on. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALANSUE Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 PROBLEM SOLVED! Following the link to the Thetford Web Site I found an extra fuse housed in the compartment where the waste box is situated. Once the waste box is pulled out there is a blade fuse on the left hand site, quite difficult to see and remove. Thank you once again for your valuable help! Alan & Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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