I took the little plug out of my Banjo Y filter and fed a garden hose into that. When I open that up, it runs right through the pump and out the HP line (with a little out the bypass even). When I cut off the garden hose to just draw from the tank nada. There’s no way for there to be air before the filter, since it runs right from the tote which is half full or more (higher than any point in the system)…
- Those wye filters are junk
- You need to show a pic of your set up, including plumbing. I’ve never seen a pump that would produce some pressure
- All the little arrows pointing the right way on your unloader
Maybe I misspoke…it’s not producing any pressure, just letting the garden hose pressure flow through best I can tell…I’ll try and get some pics on the iPad, my phone sucks…
Ok, first video I got nothing because I don’t know what you’re feeding from or how much heat pressure you have.
Second video, of you are feeding it from a garden hose, starting it up isn’t going to give you more flow. It’s only going to flow what it has coming in. You need to get rid of that banjo filter, run a 1 inch line straight to the pump, of you are absolutely certain you have the unloader installed correctly, hook a short jump line to it with a trigger on it and see what happens.
That’s a pretty good situation…whose the team?
NVM, I see the Wolfpack logo over there…lol. Been to Cater-Finley a few times, those trips never ended well for the Wolfpack 
Maybe your engine is out of gas?
so the hose was a secondary feed to try to force out any air…the 1" line from the tank runs through the filter to the intake, I just stuck a barb on the thumb plug to force feed it (although I think the gravity from the tank should have done the same…as it sits it’s still fully hooked up as it runs normally, just with the added garden hose pushing water into the Y in addition. I’m still shocked that it fell apart TBH 
really? lol
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I’ve been there! Times is hard… I’m gonna watch this thread like a hawk & learn how to plumb them big boy pumps. Luckily you don’t need a pump to go fishing!
well, don’t use this as an example…Y-filter or no, there’s a lot wrong with this setup I’m discovering. First time I’ve really had to dig into the assembly personally. Like the start of this thread, swapped the intake to the other side of the pump on the first truck, this one is still the original way which makes no sense whatsoever…
I’ve been running a direct drive GP with just a little filter screen between the hose & pump with zero issues for a solid year. I’ll be plumbing a buffer tank soonish but I’m probably gonna skip the y filter & break lots of other rules in the process haha.
This is the stuff you want to do away with. No tef tape means air leak. Air leak means no suction for pump or air in pump.
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Dangit, you’re probably right,that was the temp test hookup, so I half-did it. Wouldn’t it pull something though? If it wasn’t obvious, this is literally my first troubleshooting session ever, and now I have 2 identical setups down to learn on 
Have you run this with the unloader removed?
not on this truck, I think I tried that on the first truck that started this thread off
Are they both having the same issues?
Well, now that I put this one back together, they’re very similar, but this one fell apart entirely, so I don’t know that they correlate.
You’re working on it now? Drop it where you’re at & go home & kick back! It’s Friday. Go swallow some suds, you’ve earned it. It’ll be there when you return. Gotta draw the line somewhere. Rescheduling is perfectly okay. Anyone that disagrees can go climb a tree.
