In another thread someone mentioned that their power washer went out after 2 years. I think many folks don't realize that you have to do some prep on the rig at the end of the season. It is fairly obvious that you have to get the water out of the pump and hose if you're going to leave it in an unheated space. But you also have to take care of the water that sits in the pump or it will rust out the bypass valve that is crucial to making the thing work. My unit recommends putting antifreeze in the system and that may help with the freezing but I don' think it will stop the rust. I think you have to take the hose off and shoot some foam oil type product into the intake. Take the spark plug out and then crank the unit a couple of times to get the oil spread through the pump.
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got this tackled today took about 3 hours to get both sides done. Didnt even get to use a torch....
Thought I was golden with just jacking it up and I could get to everything but no luck. Had to remove the entire axle hub and brake assembly to get to what I needed. Was a pain but still better then taking off the entire pivot arm.
Axle bearings were already greased and in great shape thankfully. Got both leaf springs installed and its ready for the road again.
Probably going to have my electric brakes checked, I am not touching anything with the brake drums. Based on what I saw it doesn't look like my electric brakes have been working anyway. Brakes are nice to have if its slippery out
😂 yea pretty amazing how b o o b i e s gets flagged, but they can't respond or tell me why I can't get logged in here on my laptop but I can on my cellular 😪
we had some nice weather yesterday and this conundrum was driving me crazy so I drove up to the house to take another look. I got a bunch of goodies via ups yesterday (cables, winch ratchet parts, handles, leaf springs etc).
I wanted to make sure the new leaf springs I got fit. I got everything laid out and ready to go. Will be busy this weekend with kids stuff and too cold to fish anyway, but I will try to get back up there again next weekend and get it done. I don't think it will be bad once I get it lifted up.
For anyone in the google verse, the leaf springs are 4 leafs and measure 25 1/4" eye to eye per Yetti. I didnt want to pay their markup so just got something else comparable rated for the same weight.
I am a first time wheel house owner, this is all new to me. My house didn't come with any handles for the rear cables? I was told this week by someone in the industry that cordless drills do not have enough brake to lower it slow enough and it can damage the cables and the ratchets in the winches. I put on a handle last night and it is 100% better than using a drill, unfortatenly I found out the hard way lol and will only use the ICNutz to raise the house now.
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In another thread someone mentioned that their power washer went out after 2 years. I think many folks don't realize that you have to do some prep on the rig at the end of the season. It is fairly obvious that you have to get the water out of the pump and hose if you're going to leave it in an unheated space. But you also have to take care of the water that sits in the pump or it will rust out the bypass valve that is crucial to making the thing work. My unit recommends putting antifreeze in the system and that may help with the freezing but I don' think it will stop the rust. I think you have to take the hose off and shoot some foam oil type product into the intake. Take the spark plug out and then crank the unit a couple of times to get the oil spread through the pump.
Of course this advice is about 4 months too late.
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