Finally Figured It Out

[HighTide]

My backup unit -- 18 hp Vanguard with 5.6 gpm @ 3,500 psi -- has been machine gunning for a month now. Kept cleaning inlet filter, replaced pump valves, check seals then finally bought a new unloader. Nothing stopped the machine gunning until today. Started replacing the inlet hose and clamps and found my problem. Five leaves from a live oak tree found there way into the inlet hose but stopped just short of entering the filter. They were hidden by the barb fitting that screws into the filter so I couldn't see them. Cleared it out and everything now runs SMOOTH again!!

This all happened after my tank lid came off while traveling down I-95 -- never to be found again. I have a new tank lid now but within the two weeks that I didn't, leaves dropped into my tank. Man, what a headache to finally get rid of!

 

[Doug Rucker]

WOW, that's like, Really?? You gotta be kidding me. Glad you got it figured out

 

[al9226]

Coincidence, I was filling my mix tank today and saw two of those darn things floating in there. They can survive any type of disaster and get into anything.... I hate em.

 

[Bob Keenan]

I bet that's a relief David! I think I better put my lid back on my buffer tank.......

 

[Steven Button]

Ha! I better check mine... Been running without a lid on one of the tanks for a while and have got vibration in one of the machines. Thanks for sharing David.

 

[AZ PowerWash Pros]

I hate losing tank lids! They are expensive, I replaced 3 before I drilled metal wires to the tanks and lids so if they pop off they just dangle. I would recommend that.

 

[Ron Musgraves]

I hate losing tank lids! They are expensive, I replaced 3 before I drilled metal wires to the tanks and lids so if they pop off they just dangle. I would recommend that.

You looking at my rigs?


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[Scott Stone]

We use a hydrant fill. I finally got all of my lids screwed down and have it set up so my guys don't have to get on the truck to fill. Overall, it saves about 45 seconds a fill. Times 28 fills plus a day, a simple screw saves me an easy $1500-$2000a year that I can waste other places.

 

[Ron Musgraves]

We use a hydrant fill. I finally got all of my lids screwed down and have it set up so my guys don't have to get on the truck to fill. Overall, it saves about 45 seconds a fill. Times 28 fills plus a day, a simple screw saves me an easy $1500-$2000a year that I can waste other places.

Much safer


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[AZ PowerWash Pros]

I hate losing tank lids! They are expensive, I replaced 3 before I drilled metal wires to the tanks and lids so if they pop off they just dangle. I would recommend that.

Haha, no. I actually bought a trailer off Craigslist that had it like that and that is what gave me the idea after losing a couple. But now all my rigs are set up like that.

But the guy that I bought my rig off Craigslist prob saw one of your trailers! haha

 

[apple]

One of my tanks hasn't had a lid since I bought it. I took the lid off the other and left it in the shop wheN I got it.

That might explain why I have a machine pulsating.