Someone tied up the high pressure gun because there was a leak. That was nice.
High Pressure hose leak – Update
New high pressure problems in the same bay from yesterday.
High Pressure hose leak
I always love it when I have a high pressure hose leak.
The top arrow shows where I cut and installed a new reusable hose fitting. The bottom arrow shows a small leak about a foot away from where I just fixed the hose. This picture could prove one of three things. 1) I have the worst luck ever, 2) this high pressure hose needs to be replaced, 3) BOTH 1 & 2
Water coming out of the equipment room!
FYI: This is always bad. It’s never good when water it coming out of the equipment room. A high pressure hose burst.
Helpful customer
One of my customers tried to fix my high pressure hose problem with a towel and some electrical tape. I guess it worked pretty good? Looks like the hose was cut somehow twice and one of the cuts was deep enough to cause a leak. I just replaced the hose.
My boom problem
It took forever to figure out what the problem was with the boom. I installed a new shiny Mosmatic 90 degree swivel and it would still leak. Took off the swivel and it looks like a good bit of the threads are semi-stripped. So I really tightened the swivel down and the leak went away. (This was the first time for that problem, I guess the car wash gods are eating away at the boom slowly and the booms life is coming to an end.) Since I tightened the swivel more it made the swivel too high so you could not install the high pressure hose (because of the hp fitting). So I had to make some extra room with my grinder.
While I was repairing the bay I decided to replace all the hoses and fittings. I used the black hose (6 foot hp hose) in the boom, then a brass coupler, then a 4 inch piece of stainless steel piping (to prevent the boom from rubbing a hole in the hp hose), then a brass 90. After I install that setup I added a 1 foot hp hose (swivel saver), next a swivel and then a 8 foot hose. You could then do a swivel then the gun, but I left out that swivel. I am not really sure you could tell the difference.
This time I purchased these fancy Mosmatic in-line swivels. They are shinny and look better for now.
Maybe someone could send in your bay setup and I could post some pictures?
What happened when my Dixmor DX-1000 Weep Mizer did not work?
(First picture from left) 1) All my high pressure hoses were frozen. 2) Broken tire cleaner hose. 3) Broken RO water hose. 4) This was a surprise, broken high pressure hose. Also a rainbow.
(First picture from left) 1) Hydrominder got stuck. 2) And another RO water hose busted.
I am not really sure why the Weep Mizer did not work, but my theory is that I had it on the screen where you select if you want it “on” or “off” and it was on “on” but I guess you have to leave the screen? All I know is that it just didn’t work.
High pressure hose problem
I had a high pressure hose problem: small leak. A problem with a short hose I ordered (6 feet) it needed to be 7 feet. Also a tip (1/4″ MEG 1506) was clogged after I replaced the hose.