My surface cleaner doesn't spin, but moves freely when turned by hand. What is causing this?
When a pressure washer's surface cleaner attachment stops spinning, one common culprit is clogged nozzles. This can prevent the usual water flow that powers the spinning motion, making your cleaning tasks more difficult or impossible. Here's a comprehensive guide on how to address this issue by cleaning the spray nozzles:
Turn off the pressure washer and turn off the water supply. Release the residual pressure by squeezing the gun's trigger.
2. Disconnect the pressure washer wand from the surface cleaner.
3. If you have the 14.5" Stainless Steel Surface Cleaner or the 20" Surface Cleaner use a 14Mm 6-point wrench or a 9/16” wrench to remove the nozzles. If you have the 12" Surface Cleaner, 14" Surface Cleaner, or the 18" Surface Cleaner, use a 1.5” wrench to remove the nozzles.
4. Using the nozzle cleaning tool, free any foreign material clogging or restricting opening of the nozzles. You can to take a sewing needle or some other like tool/gadget and clean them from the outside in. It may be hard to insert the cleaning tool due to built up debris.
5. Flush debris out of the nozzle. Direct the flow of water through the nozzle backwards from the outside to the inside. Once you push the debris out and the tool you're using moves in and out of the hole freely, hold the spray tip to the light and look at what type of hole you see. If you do not see an oblong shape and you just see a circle opening then they're still not clean. It's an oblong hole and until you see that, they're not fully clean.
6. Attach the wand back to the surface cleaner, set the surface cleaner on a flat surface. Turn on the water (DO NOT START THE PRESSURE WASHER) and squeeze the trigger on the gun. Allow water to run through the spray bar for approximately 30 seconds.
7. Reinstall the nozzles to the spray bar and tighten securely, align the nozzle opening parallel to the spray bar
If that does not work, please give us a call at 866.870.9930.