Category: Repair

It is nowhere near as bad as my last penny problem: Month long penny wash  But I need to check out the coin acceptor.

Can you believe that one of my meter box horns are broken?  I am afraid to open the meter box.  Something bad will probably happen.

Today I figured out where my mystery leak was coming from.  A super small cut above the brass fitting.

When I was removing the brass fitting I lost the screw-off cap.  I tried this extra push lock t-fitting and then threw this away.  (It seems to leak worse than the cracked hose.)  Now the hose is directly connected to the solenoid bank.

The tire cleaner is not working in any bays.  So, I replaced the check valve today which was the only bay that did not work yesterday and then I figured out what the problem was, a wire was disconnected.  The check valve in front of the Flojet was also stuck.  Which means that this was not the broken bay.

I did replace 3 check valves today in 3 bays.  Maybe I got the broken one?  Tomorrow if I am still having a problem I can use these check valves to replace the other 2.

Okay, so my plan did not work.  But the check valve before the Flojet got stuck shut which is good.  I tested all the bays again and can not get any check valve to fail.  The only hint I got today was the tire cleaner does not work in one of the bays.  I think I found the bay, I will need to get a check valve and try and fix it tomorrow.  I put a cone in the bay.

The high pressure pattern is messed up and I replaced the tip.  The last picture is something I purchase from KR and I really like it.  It is a 1/4 tip wrench thing.

When you see water coming out of the equipment room it is always bad.  The supply line broke and the fitting to the Flojet was leaking.  Now I can figure out what the problem is, only took 3 days.

I got to drain the tanks again.

So the problem is two check valves are bad.  One check valve in a random bay and the check valve between the solenoid bank and the Flojet pump.  The plan is to replace the check valve before the Flojet and the hose in the bay should burst because of the high pressure water.  Then tomorrow I can replace that bays check valve.  Sounds good?

The Flojet push lock fitting started leaking again today.  It looks like the brass insert in the fitting it coming out.  I just replaced it with about 5 other fittings (last picture).

What happened was the tire cleaner leaked on top of the holding tank.  Then the chemical leaked through the holding tank hinges.  This made the foam bush, high pressure soap and rinse water all be tire cleaner.  I had to siphon out all the tire cleaner. 

The hose wore out or something?  I took the hose out then cut the hose and reinstalled.