[AT] Sorry for the OT post...

Jim Yost jnyost at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 14 02:47:06 PDT 2017


I had similar issue with mine this spring. My pressure release valve stuck. All I had to do is turned it all the way in and all the out and it released. Prob not same problem but that how my acted this spring.

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Jim

> On Jul 13, 2017, at 10:33 PM, Rena Glover Goss <rlgoss at twc.com> wrote:
> 
> I suspect your problem is hydraulic and not engine related.  Check the water routing. Hot shaft on the pump would tell me there is some sort of water starvation problem.
> 
> 
> Larry
> 
> ---- Dick Day <dickday0 at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> I'm desperate.  Last year I bought a fairly large power washer.  4200psi
>> 3.5gpm.  It has a 389cc gas engine. It ran great, we used it a lot.  In the
>> Fall, I removed the pump and stored it the heated shop for the winter.
>> Over the winter, I converted it to also run on LP.  In the dead of winter,
>> I wheeled it outside and it fired right up.  I put it away until the
>> spring.  I put the pump back on and decided to clean the siding on the back
>> of the house.  It started right up. The second I squeeze the trigger, it
>> runs really bad.  Let go of the trigger and it's fine.
>> 
>> I put some gas in it and now it also runs really bad when engaging the
>> pump.  If I remove the pump, it starts and runs great on both LP and gas.
>> 
>> The LP conversion consisted of removing the air filter, installing longer
>> bolts and mounting an LP collar between the carb and the air filter.
>> Nothing was modified.  I've done several LP conversions and they all run
>> way better on LP. After a few years, the pistons look almost new.
>> 
>> The company, Champion, has been fantastic.  They do not discourage their
>> customers from converting to LP.  The tech I have been working with says
>> that he and the others in his office "hate" to see engines running on gas.
>> 
>> So, it seems as though the pump might have gone bad sitting in the box over
>> the winter.  Not likely.
>> 
>> Today, I pulled the pump off and wheeled it outside and fired it up on both
>> LP and gas.  No problems.
>> 
>> I did notice that the pto shaft that the pump attaches to was so hot I
>> could not even touch it.  Is this normal? Does heat simply get transferred
>> through the pto shaft?
>> 
>> As I said, the company has been fantastic to work with. They sent me a new
>> carb and even a new pump (which I have not tried yet).  I'm trying to see
>> why the pto shaft is so terribly hot.
>> 
>> Is this normal?
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks
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