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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: from edge2edge on May 26, 2010, 07:54:43 am

Title: TM blockage or not
Post by: from edge2edge on May 26, 2010, 07:54:43 am

My truckmount starts and runs great.I do a few rooms then turn it off to spray and let dwell some other rooms but on trying to restart sometimes it goes blank on the key start altogether or starts then stops almost straight away.Eventually after emptying the waste and leaving it a few minutes it starts fine and runs fine again.I have not done enough work to fill even half the waste tank but it seems to be dribbling out of the tap before i release it.Any ideas boys(i have the steamway 9100lx and it has been well looked after)Regards Alan

Title: Re: TM blockage or not
Post by: richy27 on May 26, 2010, 08:14:28 am

do you have safety cu off for te waste tank if so you could isolate this an see ifrns fine if that works ou have a dodgy float switch

Title: Re: TM blockage or not
Post by: D Ingram on May 26, 2010, 09:47:27 am

Alan I may be 100 mile further up the road but my phone still works Al, give me a ring it sounds like something simple ;)

Title: Re: TM blockage or not
Post by: from edge2edge on May 26, 2010, 10:05:39 am

Thanks for the advise Richard .Dave hope all is going well i will try the unit this afternoon and ring you if it still occurs.Are you at home in Wolverhampton again now then.Regards Alan

Title: Re: TM blockage or not
Post by: D Ingram on May 26, 2010, 10:23:13 am

Look forward to hearing from you Al, yes I'm not quite in Wolverhampton I only made it to Walsall some would say that was close enough. :D

Title: Re: TM blockage or not
Post by: mark pritchard on May 26, 2010, 09:21:24 pm

Hi Alan
Don't switch the machine of when pre-spraying. Just turn the pump off and put the throttle to idle speed.
I know that machine better than anyone else. 5 - 10 mins idle will do it less harm than keep start/stopping the machine and the fuel you use is hardly any.

Mark

Title: Re: TM blockage or not
Post by: from edge2edge on May 26, 2010, 09:31:29 pm

Thanks for that Mark I was up at alltec awhile back and missed you by a day so Pete the engineer said.I am just about getting the hang of this machine now.It seems to take me ages for the most simple function to stick in my memory but i use the truckmount whenever it is viable.Working in Oxford can be a real mare with some of the tight old streets so just cant get to some jobs and always try to use my thermadry machine on flats.Anyway i assume your beast is still purring along nicely.Regards Alan 

Title: Re: TM blockage or not
Post by: Gerry Styles on May 27, 2010, 08:32:41 pm

had the same prob on my hm boxer 421, turned out to be blocked filter jet