Galley faucet issue

[knotflying]

My galley faucet keeps getting clogged with small particles after 2.5 years of use and I also use a filter when filling the tank. It is at the small backflow preventer where the hose snaps and screws onto the solid tube. Does anyone know why there is a backflow preventer on the galley faucet and not the head faucet? I want to remove it, but figured I would see what the rational is of having it. I realize that there is a possibility of dish water working its way back if one was to let the faucet sit in the dishwater, but this is highly unlikely for us. And why in the galley and not the head?

 

[Levitation]

Remove it.

 

[walldog]

Remove it.

Yes, remove it.

 

[knotflying]

Will do, thanks! When we get dysentery I will know who to call.

 

[Barry Cohen]

Mike:

Let me know if you can take a picture of that connection point. I have low flow in my galley sink. Maybe that is why.

 

[walldog]

The one in the head would need a back flow preventer more than the galley since it is able to rinse the toilet bowl. I did not think mine was anything more than a strainer. Being as it was so hard to reach and clean, I removed it. We still have a strainer at the nozzle.

 

[knotflying]

Mike:

Let me know if you can take a picture of that connection point. I have low flow in my galley sink. Maybe that is why.

Barry, I will try, but it is in a tight spot. The first time I used a mirror to see what I was doing, now I can do it by feel. Just follow your hand up the flexible hose and you will feel where it connects to a solid line in the center. There is a Phillips set screw that you must loosen. I use a stubby ratchet type. Turn it enough so that the fitting just slips off. Do not turn the screw too much so as not to make it come out completely and then loose it as it falls to nowhere land. The back flow is a plastic pice inserted in the end you remove. Just pick it out with a tweezer.

 

[Barry Cohen]

Got it. Thanks Mike.

 

[sleepyboat]

Mike,
I have had the same problem for the past two years in the spring while purging the water system of the antifreeze. A white film, like lint collects on the screen in the faucet head. When I first took it apart and cleaned all the pieces that came out and then reassembled it no water came out at all. It turns out I put it back together backwards and I thought that this was a backflow device but it is in the handle and easy to get at. Is this what you are referring to?
John

 

[knotflying]

My faucet only has a screen at the connection from hose to pull out head. The back flow preventer is at the hose connection to faucet body.

 

[Barry Cohen]

Mike:

I finally took some time to monkey with my galley faucet. I removed the hose from where it ties into the faucet below. I backed out the small Phillips head screw and pulled off the hose. I then found the check valve and removed it. Had bits and pieces in it. I left it out and re-assembled the hose.

The faucet now functions as it was intended.

I was going to buy a whole new faucet. Am I glad I searched Tugnuts and found this post again.

Thank you for your suggestion.

 

[knotflying]

Good new s Barry. Since I removed the back flow preventer I have had no issues with water flow. But now I am probably swallowing plastic microscopic shards from the water tank. :lol:

 

[Levitation]

ahhhhh. That explains a whole bunch about your behavior :mrgreen:
We were wondering