1/2 3 way ball valve

Then you have a problem. You should be able to set your coffee cup on it and not see ripples.

No, that’s just mean @Clean_Blue

That’s the offspring if @SchertzServicesLLC and his cat had one :woozy_face:

Woahhh buddy… that’s a southern thing lol

No worries Chris, I don’t judge.

I don’t run a filter but I did suck up a small rock one time and it jammed up my injector. The only reason I took it apart to see what was going on, is it was a new injector. But since that one time I’ve had no issues. Also I have no clue how a small rock got into my bleach tank.

It’s a brand new skid hydrotek scx30008 run with a kubota diesel motor. I thought that it being new and a diesel might be quieter than my old kohler propane powered 5gpm but was wrong. I have it installed directly on the fabricated heavy wall steel frame we made and it’s all bolted together with 1/2” stainless bolts. I never saw the machine in person before buying it so had no idea lol.

First pic is work in progress. The frame underneath behind the tailgate hides the surface cleaner (right side) and the left is the wands, leaf blower, di filter and other little items. All locked away wouldn’t even know they are in there even if looked inside from the top! Water tank is 6” lower in the back to reduce center of gravity and just the handle of the surface cleaner slides under that part

Second pic was how it looked after complete.

Since then have added a vertical bleach tank and waiting for the hydrotek water recovery unit to go between hose reels and the tank. So much involved with these setups!

Is it bolted directly to that steel plate? What are you using for isolators?

Appears bolted directly to frame under steel plate.

What are isolators? Are they a bushing of sorts?

To dampen or isolate vibrations.

Wanted to hop in and see if you could point me towards some good isolators? Mine are cracked to hell and don’t work all that well. Also is it alright to have the engine mounted directly to a skid as long as the skid has isolators under it going to whatever its mounted to? Thanks!

Yes

I’m currently running these. They’re true isolation mounts, with just rubber between the two studs. I would double up on the mount points, for redundancy/safety, though. Like use 8 of these if your machine is currently mounted with 4 bolts. (I bought the m8 size for my machine)

I noticed a huge improvement in noise and vibration switching to these over just bolting directly through the rubber feet my pressure washer came with. When my unit was running on the trailer with just the rubber feet as isolators, it would make the whole tow vehicle vibrate inside.

Now that I’m using the rubber isolators, mounted on a truck flatbed, it’s barely more noise or vibration from inside the cab as when the truck motor is running.

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The prebuilt skid has those isolators for the radiator but the skid itself sits hard on the 1”x2” steel rectangle tube. We welded tabs to it and thru bolted the skid to it. The skid weighs over 1000 pounds when all 36 gallons of diesel are filled in the two tanks. Seems that would be too much weight for the strut type shown above but maybe those 4” rubber pads could handle the weight of it all for a few years to come? I think the biggest rattle comes from the stainless steel diamond plate I added at the back end.

If I got those 4” wide rubber pads I would line them the entire 360 deg perimeter that the skid sits on, just hope it would not be too heavy for them and eventually crush them down…