Working out the kinks of plumbing my truck build for this year. I’m thinking about how to plumb the water feed for my 8 gpm machine. Anyone ever try just plumbing it from the top of the tank and extending to the bottom. Almost like a drop stick but more heavily weighted at the bottom. Hope I’m explaining it in a way people can understand. Thoughts?
Are you talking about having it siphon from the tank?
Even though the belt drive systems or gear drive set ups draw water, I would go for gravity fed with a nice supply hose to feed that thirsty pump
Less pipes to get broken in an already overcrowded set up. Also my machine will be above my tank, no way around that. Pretty much makes a gravity feed pointless.
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Might be your only option.
If its a belt drive machine there wont be any issues drawing water up a couple feet.
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Mine draws from the bottom of the tank up about three feet or so. But, I’ve got head pressure pushing the water into the feed line. If you use a drop stick, make it PVC a and put a check valve in at the bottom so it keeps water in the line when you turn the machine off. I don’t mind if my udors don’t have water for a minute or so if the tank runs dry and it had to reprime the system. If you are running a general or something it won’t like not having water
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I have read you singing the praises of udor pumps for awhile now, are they that much better than a general pump? I was looking at buying a 6gpm hot water unit, SS skid, big fuel tanks, honda engine and gen pump for 5450, but I wonder if the general is junk (ier?) now.
Lol what’s general pump??
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Yes, the Udor pumps are better. No, General pumps are not junk. Either will serve you just fine. When you get to a point where you’re too busy to deal with minor pump repairs then you can slap an Udor on essentially forget about it.
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I’m a firm believer in buying the absolute best. There are guys that believe that general is a decent pump. They are guys that believe that general and udor are built in the same factory. I know it isn’t and they aren’t. But, I don’t buy their equipment and they don’t buy mine, so I guess it doesn’t matter. I have never heard of a general pump with 5k hours and no rebuild though.
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Thank you for taking the time to respond and for the information. More considerations to make.
The grump is pretty persuasive yes ? Good purchase dude, congrats !
Well grump would say 1 outta 2 ain’t bad lol. Get with @SchertzServicesLLC if you already haven’t heard about the fuel pump. Again congratulations man !
I’m diggin it , did the muffler come with it ?
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Yes the muffler comes with it. Unlike most hondas lol
@bluewave18ft i want to say @SchertzServicesLLC used a briggs and stratton fuel pump on his predator. Im sure if you search predator fuel pump it will pop up. Or just pm him
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