See wasn’t that easier than us reading between the lines.
What are you talking about? If you wanted to know why I don’t use them, ask. Don’t make up a lie and expect no one to call you out on it.
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As much as I don’t ant to admit this you were 100% correct. Definitely feel like a crazy person. In my defense I have 3.5 month old twins and have only been sleeping about 3-4 broken up hours a night.
I read your comment and just sat back laughing knowing that had to be it. Thanks for mentioning the obvious as I think Occam’s Razor would say the easier/obvious answer usually is the correct one.
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Holy cow did this thread go completely away from what I meant haha.
Hopefully the picture shows but I use the injector in the loop so that when I bypass the injector I get straight flow which I literally can tell in person noticeably.
I’m not really understanding but bystander is saying I gain flow but lose pressure or lose in both areas?
I will do a bucket test but didn’t Racer do it and gain in both areas after he tested everything?
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Glad to see it was user error and free and your back up and running. Good deal @OlsonSoftWash…
Good call @Firefighter4hire.
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@OlsonSoftWash I’m glad it worked out. I dont run one anymore but I’m glad to see you put it together correctly. I dont know what injector you are running but I tried a few different ones. Your soap pick up will be different in the loop than in the straight run. It’s not by alot but I like to tinker. I end up with gp high draw.
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When reading through this craziness, the first thing that I thought was it was on backwards. I haven’t seen an injector bypass fail with a perfectly working injector. Installing one backwards has happened to all of us at one time or another. I’m glad you got it figured out as I couldnt see what else it could be. I use an injector bypass. It works for me…I don’t promote or push them as I know many on here don’t like them and feel they are useless.
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Glad to see you have it in the loop. I would rec. that you move the injector to the exit side of the loop because you’ll have more turbulence right where the 90 is on the incoming side. It also gets that injector away from the junction some. See pic below. The only time I bypass mine is when doing concrete, but I’m using Chris’s box to control soap. With my 8 using the 2.1 3-5 injector it’s worth 1 gpm bypassing it. For just low pressure rinsing I don’t bother since 7.5 rinses just fine. For smaller machines it’s less difference. With my 4gpm literally no speakable difference running thru the injector.
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That hose clamp straight up gives me the chills
I don’t use hose clamps. If the injector goes bad, I want it to blow off the barb, not fill my soap tank.
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Me neither usually. This was an old one that I dug out of spares because my filter had gotten messed up and it was quicker to slide this one on. It still slides on and off pretty easily. If my injector goes bad I usually know it in about 15 seconds since I use more soap, thus more suds and my soap tank is small.
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I meant the m5 twist nozzle my xjet
Is there a benefit to having it on the reel?
Generally, closer to reel the better, but if you have a short hip line probably not that much difference
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