Ok...heres my problem....my dad has a pressure washer that right now will not uh....pressurize. in other word no high pressure water comes out. its a Karcher with a Briggs & Straton 4.0hp motor. puts out about 1800psi. any ideas on what's going on here? my dad thinks that the nozzle may be clogged. i hate this stuff. it worked fine last season...

 

pull the nozzle off and see how much pressure/water is coming out

 

Maybe someone was abusing it in the off season

 

yeah we got a new nozzle...it worked...for about a minute. so theres definitely something wrong with the pump....(sigh)

 

Maybe there is a bad seal or seals (o-rings)...

 

are you sure all the airs out of the system and did you check the oil and the screen at the inlet?

 

one more thing take a small bar or something small enough to to depress the ball inside the end of the hose at the coupling(plan on getting wet)...if somthings caught there it will come out then

 

my dad took apart and cleaned the nozzle and replaced some o-rings. so it works now

 

AJ,

What kind of sites are you surfing up there?

 

When you are using the washer,make sure you DON'T let it idle (without spraying) for more than 60 seconds! That's the worst thing you can do to the pump. Shut the engine off and bleed off the pressure if you're not going to spray for a minute or more. They build up internal pressure and blow the seals otherwise.

 

ROFL!!! LMAO!!! That's one of the funniest things I've ever read... ROFL.... and I thought I was the only one that did that...

RP

 

My girlfriend asks me the same thing all the time It's just that I remember everything I read and when I heard "air compressor", I recalled a story about some kid exploding, because he stuck an air hose in his butt Certainly fitting of a Darwin Award.

"Say no to Satan!"

 

That must of been a mess...

Sh*t stains everywhere...

 

Did you read the story, 01 XLT Sport???

Too bad it's not a true story