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Old 12-06-2009   #4
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Default Re: Lumbar pump question

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Originally Posted by tomtom72 View Post
besides not filling the bladders my passenger seat pump was doing something similar, started out strong but would slow way down as it ran, not stopping completely though.

Anyway, when I took it apart I found that the rubber torn in several places and it was winding up around the motor shaft(?), where the screw holds the rubber to the drive. It's like a crank type of set up and one of the fragments was winding around the drive & stopping the motor.

The rubber dish washing trick over at the Reg site did the trick!

Or got to a Local bicycle shop and get an old inner tube, that is what I used
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