Investing in appliances can be a tricky ball game, and we often leave it to our luck when it comes to how long the tool will last. Most of us prefer doing our research and mainly depend on trusted brands. At least that way, chances of an appliance starting troubling within days of use becomes minimal.
When it comes to pressure washers, the rule is the same too. A trusted source with about 50 years of experience in making products sounds pretty legit, and the brand Simpson has it. The brand and its products, including the pressure washers, lead fair and square in reliability, durability, and optimal performance. And when it comes to its troubleshooting, a layperson can pretty much follow the easy techniques and solve it at home.
Here we attempt to make your work all the more convenient by presenting you with the simpson pressure washer troubleshooting. A guide that works as a helping hand, letting you know the issues that might be happening with your pressure washer, and while you do your work, mending a troubling pressure washer.
Simpson Pressure Washer Troubleshooting
Simpson Pressure Washer Fails To Draw Chemicals
Pressure washers are not meant to be used with only water. They are used with detergents, soap, cleaning agents, and chemicals, depending on how dirty the surface that you are attempting to clean is and what kind of dirt is sticking on it. So, when your pressure washer fails to draw chemicals or cleaning agents, it becomes an issue because you miss the optimal performance while cleaning a dirty surface. Quite obviously, what a cleaning agent can do, plain water might fail in most cases no matter how powerful the water spray is. So, if your pressure washer is not drawing chemicals even after using a pressure washer safe chemical agent, you have to check a few things.
1. Thick Substance – Check whether you have used a cleaning agent or chemical too thick for your pressure washer to work with it comfortably. No matter what the product instruction tells you to do, you always need to dilute it with water. Thick chemicals are too harsh on not only the cleaning surface but also on your pressure washer.
Troubleshooting – Deconcentrate the chemical with water; if not more water and minimal chemicals, keep it 50-50.
2. Clogged Filter – The compartment or the tank for the chemical to be loaded must have a filter. When you use the chemical, it further filters the substance to make the usage safer, which eventually proves to be beneficial to the pressure washer’s lifespan. After a couple of uses, no matter how much you have ensured cleaning inside it, the filters get clogged up. And many times, we miss cleaning the filter altogether too.
Troubleshooting – So, what may be the case is, if your pressure washer fails to draw chemicals, check the filter. And it seems clogged, right? Then just remove it carefully, clean it with water and cleaning products, or just plain water and reinstall it.
3. The Chemical Hose Screen Is Not In The Chemical – The hose that will draw the chemical to clean through the pressure washer has to be in the chemical, deeply immersed. Otherwise, it will fail to pick the chemical or stop drawing the chemical entirely after a few seconds of spray.
Troubleshooting – Fill your tank or external bottle with a good quantity of diluted chemical and then submerge the hose screen fully inside it. Then, start working with your pressure washer. The hose is bound to draw chemicals.
4. Miscellaneous – If it still fails to draw the chemicals, then,
- Make sure to spray the chemical with the spray gun at low pressure.
- Check the pressure hose; you might be using one that is too long.
- The chemical injector needs a thorough cleaning.
Simpson Pressure Washer Not Working On High pressure
When your pressure washer is not in choke position, and you have checked, it’s already in No Choke position, and the water supply is just working fine, but it is still not working on high pressure, you need to check quite a few components in the pressure washer.
1. Dirty Nozzles – The nozzle you are using is dirty and filled with muck for sure, obstructing the water coming out of it with full force. And you are assuming the water pressure washer is not supplying water at high pressure.
Troubleshooting – Clean the nozzles thoroughly. The nozzles in a Simpson pressure washer are all said to be high-quality, stainless steel, thus abrasion-proof. So, the rust in the nozzle blocking the pressure is highly unlikely, especially when the pressure washer is way too new to get rusty. Remove the nozzle, get rid of the dirt, then have a thorough rinse with plain water.
2. Clogged Water Filter – A clogged water filter also causes low pressure or absolutely no pressure in the pressure washer. For obvious reasons, if there is dirt in the water, the filter will start getting blocked, filtering the dirt and muck, and the pressure washer will not receive enough water at full pressure to spray.
Troubleshooting – Make sure always to keep the water filter screen clean. Ensure you remove it from time to time. If possible, after every use, and clean and reinstall carefully. Also, use a filter in your main water pump as well. If the source supplies clean, muck-free water, the low or no pressure issue will not occur altogether.
3. Loose Fittings And Damaged Seals – Air in the hose, gun, wand, or other components hinders the pressure washer working at high pressure. The air reaches those components due to loose connections and damaged seals.
Troubleshooting – Simply block the air from entering and maintain an airtight situation.Install every hose, gun, wand in the outlets tightly and replace every worn-off seal, and there will be no air anywhere inside the pressure washer.
Simpson Pressure Washer Not Running
It’s simple, you have plugged in the pressure washer, and it isn’t starting. The engine is not getting the power of the gas.
Troubleshooting
- Check the fuel tank, if there is enough gas or not.
- Make sure your pressure washer is in the No Choke position.
- You might have missed switching on the button that starts the engine.
- Recheck the plug connection by removing it from the socket and replugging it.
- If it’s already in the No Choke position, switch it to choke position to give the engine a much-needed jolt.
- It could be the recoil starter as well, so relieve all the pressure from it by squeezing the spray gun.
Simpson Pressure Washer Components Leaks
1. Loose Connections – The prime reason that one or more of your pressure washer components are leaking is the loose connections. You haven’t installed the hose, spray gun, wand in the outlets or inlets correctly, leaving space for leaking water.
Troubleshooting – Take your time to twist every component in the inlets and outlets carefully. These pressure washers are made in such a way that the turning and twisting of the fitting have to be smooth. Otherwise, the product will not be user-friendly, lessening its quality and demand. So, it’s you who is not being patient enough to tighten the components. Therefore, causing a leak from the spray gun, wand, or pump.
2. Damaged Seals And O-Rings – After a few years of use connecting the components becomes easy as you are too used to it. So the chances of leaking of the spray gun, wand, and pump due to loose connections become lesser, and now the reason turns out to be damaged seals in those components.
Troubleshooting – Replace even the slightly damaged seals, washers, or o-rings with new ones. They are not expensive and very easy to install. So there is no need to continue using damaged parts and lessen the appliance’s lifespan facing constant leakage nuisance as well.
3. Could Be The Components Itself – Now, the fittings and seals could be the prime or common reasons for leakage. But what if neither of those is the reason for the leakage and its the components themselves. It could be the spray gun, wand, or pump itself that is causing the leakage as they are now damaged. Keep in mind that this will be the case, mostly with an old Simpson pressure washer used for years. We are talking about a brand that makes high-quality products using high-quality materials, so every part of it will ensure durability. However, nothing is invincible. Hence the trouble and the troubleshooting.
Troubleshooting – Replace the components. They might not be too easy or affordable to replace like an o-ring or seal, but still better than working with a defective unit or completely failing to use the pressure washer.
Simpson Pressure Washer Surges
If your pressure washer surges uncontrollably, and that too with weird noises, then understand, something is blocking its natural working ability. And the cause is not that complicated unless you have a defective machine. Your pressure washer is pulsating mainly, perhaps due to a dirty, clogged-up nozzle or a faulty hose or damaged wand.
Troubleshooting – Just use a clean nozzle; if it’s the nozzle. And if it’s the broken components, then get new ones pronto.
More on howtofixup
DeWalt Pressure Washer Troubleshooting
Sun Joe Pressure Washer Troubleshooting
Ryobi Pressure Washer Troubleshooting
How to Troubleshoot Common Honda Pressure Washer Problems
Karcher Pressure Washer Troubleshooting
Hopefully, with all the issues mentioned above, you have found the reasons hindering your Simpson Pressure Washer’s optimal performance. Now, you have the solutions, apply them and make it work again to its full potential.