Ok I don’t know what is going on. I just moved all of my equipment over to my new trailer. Everything is plumbed exactly the same way. I start the machine up with an open ball valve as usual and let it run for a minute, but as soon as I engage the ball valve so I can hook up a gun, the pressure washer dies. Any ideas of what’s causing this?
Edit: Just so everyone knows I am bypassing to my tank. Since it is happening when I engage the ball valve It makes me think that this is a bypass issue, but I don’t know how it could be?
Ugh. Lovely. I have been needing to get an unloaded block anyways. If I bought a new I unloader and unloader block, how difficult of a time am I going to have fixing all of this. Are there any tutorials out there? I know nothing about working on the unloader. This is my first pressure washer, and my first real issue with it.
As mentioned just get a new unloader. I’m not sure how much you use your PW…if not much just get a cheap VRT3 unloader. If you use it pretty much then get a green spring unloader if you like pressure trapped…or a K7 for flow.
I got my unloader block from PressureTek. They sell jumper hoses too in different lengths. You’ll be fine.
Put up a pic, just to be sure. There’s def pressure held up, open the lines. Usually the bottom of the pressure washer manifold is water intake, upper is pressure out.
Don’t start throwing parts at it until you figure out the problem. There isn’t much to these machines . It not difficult to figure out what’s not working
I’m home for the night and the trailer is at the shop, so I can’t take any close ups right now, but here are some pics. 1” hose barb on the inlet. 1/2” bypass line.
What would you guys due as the first step to start to diagnose the problem? I don’t even know how to check and see if the unloader is still pressurized.
Like I said before. Take it off . Then see if the motor turns over easily. You can even run it like this without damage. As long as your water supply is hooked up
So take off the unloader and then connect my whip line directly to where the unloader was? Or is it even necessary to connect the whip line?
Also, is there anything I should do before removing the unloader? As in to prepare for removing it? Sorry, I’m completely in the dark here when it comes to the unloader.
Got it! Thank you for your help! Really appreciate it. I am going to go ahead and order a new unloader and unloader block (I needed to get a block anyway) but I will probably be checking back to this thread many times to figure out the problem and address it first.
