Well I decided to keep money in the bank, and ended up with this. Most of you probably never heard of Farley’s, but they have quite a reputation, and are made in Arkansas! It needed A LOT, it suffered quite the EXPLOSION after the PO bypassed all the safety switches. I’ll post some pics of that later. I bought a new coil, coil head, burner unit, pressure switch, flow switch, solenoid, thermostat, stickers and breakers, I got it all wired up and running today finally. I’m about $2600 in so far. 5.6 GP, 18hp Kohler, everything seems good to go now!
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Hey! I think that was the machine I was looking at but didn’t want to bother with working on it.
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Was it on FB Marketplace?
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Yep, they blew that thing up for sure! I bet they had to change their panties after that one.
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Yep same one. Good job!
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I can’t imagine!! He said it blew the burner 100’ away! This should be a lesson to EVERYONE. All those safety features are there for a reason. Farleys actually was very hesitant about selling me all the replacement parts, I had to explain to them that I bought it like this, and I was smart enough to repair it correctly. I went to their factory in Siloam Springs to pick it all up, really cool small facility. Everyone there was very helpful, the final assembly guy gave me a great lesson on putting it all back together, even a 30 min phone lesson when I was wiring it up. Great guys!
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I’ve watched a 26’ enclosed trailer with two brand new Hotsy units burned to the ground because the operator had no idea what he was doing. When these things blow they BLOW.
That’s awesome I’ll have to swing by their place next time I’m out that way to check them out. I love when manufacturers lend a helping hand to fix their equipment.
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Wow. What caused it to blow up like that?
@Grizz the burner was direct wired to the switch. Everything else was bypassed. I assume he laid the gun down and went to lunch 
. Mr Farley showed me a chart where the burst rating on the coil is 14,500psi
I assume once the coil gets red hot full of steam it goes BOOM!!! Diesel fire and high pressure steam seems to be a recipe for disaster 
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I’ve had to do that in a pinch before. Super dangerous. But we got the job done and I fixed it as soon as we got back to the shop.
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Bombs make me nervous, especially when I don’t get to light the fuse😂
This is why I bought EVERYTHING new, it make several failure points, but after seeing the results I’d rather be safe.
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Amen brother!
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So you mean, no thermostat? Just on/off?
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@Chesebro Flow and or pressure switch bypassed. You can run a burner non-stop and nothing bad will happen, you’ll just make hot water. It’s what will happen when you have no water flow. I actually have a switch on all my burner controls that allows me to fire with no flow for testing purposes. Just pull the plug off the generator and plug it into a extension cord and manually fire it
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@Chesebro yes, that’s how it was wired. Doesn’t take long to get REALLY hot lol!!
As long as water is flowing, yes, it’s ok, but as soon as u let off the trigger water turns to steam, looses it cooling ability and soon after when to tube get hot enough things get bad QUICK. Ever spray water on a diesel fire? Bad idea:rofl:
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