this is easy to do
Be very careful where the Hot water is draining while your working. lots of damage from the hot water to unknown areas.
I knew that would light a #fire under your ass!
I fell for it, but only in a porty sorta way. Added the little giant on it to get the heat. At least I didn’t try to make it my truckmount. Had since 97 and still works.
Yes, unloaders are necessary. Without it your pump would break from overworking (no place for the pressurized water to go.)
When my Ballweber tube heat exchangers went REALLY bad we bought a couple Graham Heliflow heat exchangers that were GREAT. Lotsa heat and very little resistance and NEVER a repair!
Used in other industries for many decades. Almost round, about 18" diameter by 10" thick, two piece cast iron housings bolt together.
Sounds like it's not getting enough fuel. Your heater won't cause any major problems. It'll just burn your van down or maybe the house you're cleaning. Have your truck mount guy check it out. There is no pilot light on those as far as I know. It works on a spark igniter system. You need to have sufficient voltage and the system has to be sparking efficiently. You engine needs to always run at the recommended rpm to provide enough current.
I did. Of course things go wrong when I’m using the machine on my own and then when it’s with the mechanic it runs perfectly haha
Is there a choke on Diablo machines? Still figuring things out. Well, it’s a series of loud booms. Like multiple in a row. I didn’t know it wasn’t a pilot light, I just assumed that’s what was lighting the fuel, so thanks for letting me know! Didn’t know the knobs were inaccurate either, so I’ll probably just run it at 200 from now on.
You need to know these things. There should be a choke on your machine. Now that I know that you don't know, it sounds like you're starting it with the choke on but not pushing it back in. Which is why it runs great for your mechanic. You usually pull out the choke to start and push bit back in when it has started.
Hahaha great. Ok thanks for letting me know that it’s not a pilot light. I’m gonna try running it again with less heat. Is it possible that since I had it too high it was pumping in too much fuel for the igniter to keep up with? I didn’t have that problem before and it was my first time trying the machine with that much heat. Or the voltage thing being too low and since I was just having issues with the motor that would make perfect sense.
God damn it. The guy I bought it from didn’t mention a single thing about it. He knew I’m completely new to this and have never used a TM before and the dude runs an entire fleet, and when I asked him the steps to starting up and running the machine it was never mentioned. I’ve seen so many different machines on YouTube where they pull the choke out and push it back in after starting but there’s no clear indication of one on my machine, so I assumed it didn’t have one
