Pull the pump and remove the crap from the impeller. If you can hear the
pump running then it is not the switch. If the pump is running and no water
is pumping, then either the pump is not deep enough in the water (Higher
than the switch) or crap is in the pump.

"Mr Ranger" wrote in message
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On occasion when the bilge fills up, the pump comes on but yet does not
pump any water. When this occurs, I manually move the float (which is a
separate unit) up and down a few times and the pump begins to work
normally. Today, after washing the boat I could not get the pump working
even though the pump was running, no matter how many times I started it
with the float mechanism.

Question, does it sound like the pump or float is bad? Or could it be
something I'm not figuring?

Thanks,
Mr Ranger