Hey guy’s, I run thru safety relieve valves about 1 per year… I have heard some guy’s delete them and it’s fine… Is this true?
My pump runs off a buffer at all times, and I run a classic unloader not a k7 if that matters fyi
If you’re talking about a thermal relief valve, yes of course it’s fine to toss it and plug it. You just need to be bypassing water back to your buffer not just pulling from it.
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Yes, it dumps back to my buffer…
It’s not a thermal relief valve, I THINK! It’s a safety valve that opens up incase of over pressurization… It’s at the exit of my burner…
Like this one… The valve in there is rated at 5,000 psi… my pump is a 3500 psi pump… So not sure how it would protect my system…
That’s a pressure relief valve. Totally different, it’s best to leave it installed in your case. Replace it if it’s giving you problems. It could just need a cleaning though, you can take them apart. What’s happening with yours where you’re having to toss them?
It’s leaking, just some drips… But enough to loose PSI and I noticed the decrease in performance of my Whisper Wash…also it keeps cycling, bogs down as if I press and depress the trigger on my gun… because of the leak and loss of pressure
The valve is rated up to 5k but it was set just above 3.5k by relieving the spring tension when it was installed the first time. When you replaced it you would have needed to have loosen it up then tighten the hex plug until it stopped leaking.
Running those small nozzles on your surface cleaner is putting a bit more back pressure on your system requiring the need to put a bit more tension on that relief so it doesn’t leak.
Ok, That makes sense, I’ll clean it out tomorrow and re set just a hair over it’s leaking point
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Quarter turn past a drip
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Thanks Man!
You’re most welcome
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