Yeah. Like said above take the threaded barb to the hardware store to make sure you get the same size. You’ll find one easily
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No orings in mine just the ball and spring
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I havent done mine yet so i wasnt sure what all was in there. He should get the idea though
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Do it and create a post showing the steps. That way people will see how quick and easy it is.
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Or you can order the part to take it off. I can’t remember exactly where I bought the adapter with Cat’s weird threads, but its available.
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The ball valve goes inline with the chem line on your injector. I don’t have a great pic, but maybe this will make a little sense. Hose #1 goes to the injector and the bottom on the 3way valve. Line #2 goes to my chem tank and line #3 goes to my buffer. So I turn the 3way to my chem tank when I’m soaping and then to my buffer when I’m rinsing. It’s all hard plumbed so no pulling a drop stick from chem or using a bucket of water to rinse it. Injector gets rinsed as I’m rinsing the house. This allows you to soap and rinse with your soap nozzles in your jrod. Hopefully that makes sense.
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Thanks for the illustration! Very helpful!
My setup is pretty basic at this point so I don’t think I can use the poly ball valve unless I’m missing something. I’m using the high gp injector on a 4k psi / 4 gpm with no buffer tank. I hope to have a better setup with a tank by next season.
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Like @SurfaceMedic said, put it in your chem draw hose between you injector and your chem tank, and run a hose from the valve to you buffer tank, one way draws chem the other way draws fresh water.
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You could use another bucket of clear water until you get a tank, one bucket w SH and one with water.
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Didn’t I read that you were downstreaming with a Jrod?
Oh, now I think I’m starting to understand.
So with my setup pictured above, I’d have hose going from the injector to the poly, and then run hoses from the poly where one goes to the chem bucket and the other goes to a water bucket?
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Yes, I’m running a jrod. Best thing ever. Reduced my time greatly and made me love washing houses even more.
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Bingo. However, if you are ds’ing from a bucket, you could just move your drop stick from the chem to a bucket of water and achieve the same thing. All my stuff is plumbed straight to my chem tank. The whole purpose here is to rinse with your soap nozzle and not use your “rinse” nozzle on houses. The pressure it takes to stop pulling soap is a little more than you want to use on most houses. Your soap nozzle is ideal for soaping and rinsing. But your set up might be just as easy to move your drop stick rather than using a 3way valve.
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Ahhhh. Gotcha. And good point. I probably don’t really need the poly valve. It just looks cool.
I know a couple guys have said they have a remote set-up so they don’t have to walk back to their trailer. They just click a button that hangs around their neck. That sounds sweet. At some point I’ll research more what they’re talking about. But I don’t think my current set-up would allow for that. But I sure wish it did!
Currently, I’ve been pulling the drop stick out and just resting it at the top of my chem bucket (don’t want to lay it on the ground and get dirt/grass on it) but still using the soap nozzles. I remember a few guys on here saying that you only needed two of the nozzles on the jrod. I wasn’t sure exactly what they meant until I got the jrod and started using it. And then I was like, “Oh, that’s what they meant.” lol.
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I guess it never occurred to me that the draw might be different than what the machine’s built-in injector is set-up for. Smh. How would you figure out the draw on the gp high injector for a machine?
Get a 5 gal bucket and a clear 1 gal pitcher that has lines on the side that shows cup, pints, quarts, and the 1 gallon mark. Get a marker and mark the lines to see them better. Put 1 gal in your pitcher and pour it in your bucket. Mark the side where one gal is. Do this 4 times. On the 5th time, add 1 cup or pint and mark it til your get your 5th gallon
Turn you machine and using your soap tip, spray in the bucket for one minute. Use all the hose and soap tips you would normally use and measure how much your machine puts out in a minute. Do this with each soap tip to get a baseline of how well they put out. Mine are all very close to each other. Fill your pitcher with one gallon and put your drop stick in there. Hold the trigger down for one minute and measure what’s left and subtract that from 1 gallon. Mine pulls over 2 quarts in one minute and puts out about 4.25 gals per minute
128 oz per gal x 4= 512
512 + 32 (1 quart)= 544
My injector pulls about 70 oz in one minute
544/ 70 = 7.77 and i round it up to 8. So my draw rate is with different tips atound 8:1 With my M5DS its closer to 7:1
All this you can learn if you just search and read because that’s what i did.
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Thank you! Good stuff!
As mentioned above be sure to drop it in a fiver of clean water. If you flush the injector after every use it’ll last longer. No sure if you ordered two injectors but always have a spare because they do fail.
If you’re unloading your machine and have it near you there’s not really a need for a remote setup to turn soap on and off. It’s more of a time saver to keep from walking back and forth to the truck. But hey, gadgets are fun so I get it. Some do just use a ball valve and remote so it could work for your setup. It just turns the soap on and off. It won’t pull water to when off so you just have to remember to flush when you’re done with the house. Then again, some guys don’t worry about flushing and just replace the injector when need be. Others use a remote 3 way valve so it either pulls soap or water and flushes the injector.
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Are you saying to drop it in a fiver when cleaning? Or just after I’m done with the job so as to clean out the injector? I’ve been simply pulling out the injector and it seems to be fine. But if there’s an advantage I’m missing, I want to know it and change. (Though lugging around 2 fivers is a lot more work than just my current one fiver!)
Sgb told me in another thread to get a back-up so I did. I even bought the repair kit but in hindsight I should’ve just bought two extra injectors as they’re pretty cheap, and time-wise it might not be worth it to mess with repairing an injector.
The soap and water stay on the truck. You shouldn’t be logging them anywhere. Ds’ing water while rinsing adds volume to the rinse and keeps the pattern from being distorted while sucking air
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