problem with troy built pressure washer

[Soundguy]

buddy called me last night. he has a troy built pressure washer. ( brigs own them? ) has a honda engine.

sat all winter.. wouldn't start. I had nim take fuel line off to make sure fuel was getting to carb, and then had him drop carb bowl to make sure flaot was not hanging. put back together. it will now start run for a few seconds and stall.

( still sounds like stuck float to me.. or no fuel thru needle.. ).

but he said he's checked it twice.

I'm going over sunday afternoon to look at it. havn't messed with hondas much. only brigs engines and such.

those things have a diaphragm fuel pump or anything like a pulsa jet?

any ideas to look for?

thanks

ps.. didn't get a model # but it is a 2600 psi 2.3gpm unit manual part number for pdf is 317313gs

 

[eddie48]

Soundguy,
If it has been sitting for a long time, it may have a plugged jet. I also think that the honda's have an inlet screen which can get plugged, too. Pretty much just have to take it apart, just like any other carb and give it a good cleaning.

Ed

 

[Soundguy]

Not a jet. As I mentioned it runs good a few seconds. Plugged jet would mean no run.

Inlet screen could be an issue, fuel flows to the carb good, but have not seen it thru the carb with bowl off.

Will find out sunday

 

[eddie48]

As I recall, there is a small screen internal to the tube that sticks out of the carb, that the hose slides over. The screen fits into the tube.

 

[Soundguy]

i'll check it.

say.. any low oil shutoffs on them engines?

 

[eddie48]

Duh!! Good thought. A lot of the Hondas do have the low oil switch.

 

[Soundguy]

hmm.. may be onto something here.

 

[crazyal]

Troy Built is owned by MTD. You could check the linkage to see if the governor isn't connected up correctly and once it starts to run it's killing itself.

 

[Soundguy]

hmm.. the manual i downloaded says it is a troybilt, with a honda engine.. but the bottom of the page says 'by brigs'

partnership? or does brigs have some holdings with mtd?

 

[GolfAddict]

Do you know if it will turn over freely after it kills but just won't start? Or does it become very difficult to pull the starter string after it has killed? The reason I ask is last spring I ran into a problem with my Troy Bilt washer killing and not restarting, and turned out to be the pump.

I had brought it out for the first time of the year to hit my deck boards. After running a while, the thing killed. It was very difficult to pull the starter string, and I started messing around with other things on it trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. I gave up on it as I had other things to do. The next day, drug it back out and tried it again and it started right up. Started using it, and it killed again. This time it was even worse and I could hardly pull it at all, not like the engine had completely seized but like there was impossible compression or something.

Something made me wonder if something was going on with the pump, pressurizing the water and not allowing it to release or something. I eventually unbolted the pump from the motor. They bolt together with the Troy Bilt frame sandwiched in between them, so I didn't try to start the motor without it mounted, but I did pull it over for a bit and sure enough I could tell it was pulling over like normal.

I got online and did some searching and found this site that talked about how all consumer grade pressure washers come with pressure pumps that are really pretty lousy quality anymore, and only made to last so many hours, most users don't hit those hours for a long time, blah, blah. Well I ordered a new pump, it came a few days later and I installed it, and it has worked fine ever since. Someone with better capabilities could have probably have fixed the old pump, but it is beyond what I'd attempt.

Probably not what's going on with his, but just another thing to look at...

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