Simpson 420cc 4gpm - thermal relief valve - how to set up bypass to buffer?

Hey @Hotshot

Show him the lil bull you built @Firefighter4hire , that be perfect for him.

My trailer

Yeahā€¦

So by ditching the bypass, and the gauge itā€™ll help my flow/gpm/psi? Ideally I would like the downstream injector/bypass by the hose reels, but that will come after some more cash flow.

For now I will remove the gauge, and the bypass line. Think a 5x10 enclosed trailer is ok? Wanted something different

You gonna pull it with the compass ?

LOL no my lady drives the compass I got something a little less pretty

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Thats terrible pic. you got a much nicer one than that hazy mess, its on the passenger sidepicture @Firefighter4hire

To be honest its nice but youll out grow it within 2 years but the resale values are high so it wonā€™t be hard to resell. Most on here go 12 or 14ā€™ i gotta 16ā€™ and have no room left but i also have 2 hot machines on it with a 550 gallon buffer.

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No ā€¦ but its an improvement @Firefighter4hire , it was alot closer picture about 2 years ago

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Standby

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:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:@Firefighter4hire.
The LIL BULL !

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I would put a skid in that truck and forget the trailer

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Yeah , he could save 4k on a trailer and buy a nice cold water skid.

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Thats what I would do

It is how it works jake, Iā€™ll have to correct you on that one, not negatively but a ā€œprofessional correctionā€ as one member called it in the other thread where ibs said an 18 inch is the most you can effectively run on an 8gpm machine. Your answer with the swimming pool and water tower is correct individually but wrong collectively in term of how these direct drives work. The idea behind raised tanks or water levels quite a bit higher than the bulkhead on direct drive setups isnā€™t to mimic garden hose pressure but to have positive flow out of the tank to keep the inlet of the pump primed and fed while itā€™s running, Iā€™ve always told people that are doing these kinds of setups for whatever reason to use a 1 inch barb fitting right off the pump inlet along with a 1 inch feed hose from lowest part of a tank and usually get a sideways look like Iā€™m an idiot itā€™s mostly from beginners that havenā€™t got any field experience only internet theory and some experts that have jumped right into a belt drive or gear drive machine and donā€™t really understand the fundamentals of a very basic direct drive setup because they havenā€™t had to. Iā€™ve scoured the internet to demonstrate what Iā€™m explaining in a video and found a cowboy thatā€™s willing to run the pump dry for a bit in the name of science. keep in mind heā€™s doing the complete opposite of what Iā€™ve explained above and heā€™s getting it to work. I hope these theoryā€™s and speculations that direct drives donā€™t work on buffer tanks due to no suction or too many rpm are laid to rest. And yes direct drives are trash, donā€™t use them professionally.