Water Maker Woes

Today George started up the water maker to fill the water tank. As I mentioned in an earlier post about the water maker, he runs the water maker once a week to prevent microbes from growing in the reverse osmosis membranes.  This morning the motor started right up but after just a few minutes started to sound strange. George turned it off, took it apart and checked the impeller. Sure enough, one of the arms had broken off. If parts of the impeller get into the system they can create havoc, but since he found the parts in the prefilter we assumed everything would be okay. George replaced the impeller, put everything back together, started the water maker up, but no water was coming out. Upon further inspection we found that the belt and pullies for the lift pump were not moving. George also saw teeth from the belt lying on the bottom of the motor. We asked Jean and Michael to come over for a consultation. Michael confirmed that we needed a new belt and gave some guidance about how to remove it. We are assuming that part of the impeller did indeed get jammed causing the belt to get stripped. We have spent all of the rest of the day making arrangements to get water and trying to source a new belt. We may have found a source and will know more tomorrow. We also have our fingers crossed that we are correctly identified the belt. As you can see from the photo below it is very difficult to read the number. We had planned to leave George Town tomorrow but that is now up in the air. 

Broken impeller. 

Belt that needs to be replaced.