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I connected my Dixmor DX-1000 Weep Mizer to my new Jim Coleman equipment. The second picture shows how the hose is connected to the pump. The next picture shows the solenoid connected to city water pressure. Last picture is the solenoid power and constant power supply.
We rented a Penske 24 foot truck, blue dual axel trailer, and fork lift today to move the Water Wizard.
William just put the gantry on the trailer and strapped it down with 4 2″ tie downs, which we purchased from Lowes.
The pumping station went into the back of the truck along with the rails, entry gate, etc.
It was a long and bumpy road and my back is going to hurt tomorrow. “Air Ride”… I say back breaker.
William moved the gantry off the trailer without any problem!
Thanks again William and my Dad for your help today.
Today, I had everything all planned out with moving all the Water Wizard equipment. I rented 2 flat bed trailers and a fork lift. The only problem was, out of the 2 trucks we had, neither could pull the fork lift.
So instead of using AABCO Rents, the plan sunk like the Titanic slide in front of Alabama Rentals; where I ordered and confirmed the delivery of the fork lift and this cool blue trailer tomorrow.
I also brought home some Water Wizard accessories and some self serve stuff today.
By the way thanks again Greg for letting me borrow your truck.
Tons of hoses from the automatic and some signs on top.
Some Mark 7 self serve equipment, 3 1/2 bays.
Some Jim Coleman equipment, spot free, bug remover, and triple shine units. We took 2 loads of stuff today and more fun scheduled for tomorrow. All I need to do is find a use for all this stuff or sell it!
My Dad sold his Moody carwash to investors that are tearing the place down and I get around 90% of the equipment. My first project is the vending island removal. I’m excited!
I removed all the vending machines and I am going to try and remove the island tomorrow. If anyone has any great ideas let me know. There is only about a 1″ cap on top of a lot of sand.
I technically hooked the last 2 bays up, so I have all 4 bays working off the Coleman equipment. The setup will not win any beauty contests. I did have a wire problem that was giving me a constant coin pulse to the timer. I had to swap some wires a long time ago because of a wire short, which cause me to have to retrace all the wires today. FUN. All this crap needs to be redone: we will see when that happens because it works now.
I installed the 3/8″ air line today. I officially switched 2 bays over to the new Coleman equipment and tomorrow the other 2. But I am going to have to extend the 11 wire bay wires, which I am not looking forward to.
I still do not know what the yellow wire does but I know it is not the motor starter, that is the red wire.
I could not figure out what the problem was today with my high pressure soap and wax and I knew it had to be a Coleman setup misunderstanding. So I called Greg and he answered my question over the phone! The problem I was having was I was getting pressurized water from the water line where I expected gravity feed. Greg explained to me the way the Coleman unit works, it uses cold water at city pressure for rinse and hot water or gravity feed for high pressure soap and wax. My problem was exactly what Greg told me over the phone and was a miswiring. Thanks Greg.
I installed a new float valve today and also fixed all my hydrominder problems today. Wired up my low pressure hoses and some other crap.
Installed a Jobe Topaz 1″ Float Valve JFV-1 Amazon sells a 3/4″ version.
The Jim Coleman unit has a large holding tank to hold water for all the car wash bays. Today I noticed that there is a leak in one of the plastic fittings. Also, the hydrominder is extremely slow letting water flow through, but I will look at that problem tomorrow.
While filling up the tank I noticed their was a leak. The leak was coming from a check valve from the bottom of the holding tank so the water was low pressure.