Is your wastetank leaking??
Oh wait your serious
Heres what the insides of a "near original " steamgeni pto looks like the 3 hose valve on the left (red outlined) is chemical tank selector (not stock ) and white duplex wire is waste pump other than that its a stock 2000 steamgeni pto with 10,363 hours as simple as a powerful machine can get 3 belts 4 hoses a pump n a blower 3 tube and shell heat exchangers a lot of open space still in a 3×3 box tucked behind the drivers seat
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Keep in mind your comparing a 3 year old machine with 1,400 hours on the clock with one thats pushing 26 years old with over 10k on the clock. There's alot more shit in frankinstiens box, last step chemical injection, thermal relief waterbox overflow drain , high pressure cleanco & salsa heat exchangers tachometer and shaft sensor . Remote start/stop pump or enitre machine,dual chemical tank selector. Dual wastepump float switches with auto and manual with auto stop. Remote excess blower grease collection. But most importantly everything including control panel is all compactand accessible in a 3×3 box . I will have to admit, theres alot more space to work in the original. But just like cars today the more features the less space. Compared to some of the shit ive seen on the market for what frankinstien is and does he's still very very simple and easy to maintain
Hopefully it'll work. I have zero experience sealing tanks. When they start going bad i start looking for replacements but in your case that could get real spendie . Is your tank eaten up or cracked?That's sweet Dwain. Thanks for the pics. I like simple!
Someone on Hydramaster FB group with a lot of CDS machines has used this several times with 100% success sealing leaking aluminum waste tanks. It is an epoxy made for repairing motorcycle gas tanks. I think I am going to go for it. Prep the thing as best as I can without removing it and hope for the best. Worse case scenario it doesn't work and I pull the tank anyway then repair it from the bottom side
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Its a stock 2020 chevy 2500 extended van with a 6.0L i looked into a 3500 originally but what i found out was my thinking and mindset was outdated. In my mind a 1500 was1/2ton 2500 was3/4 ton and 3500 was 1 ton which was the standard when i bought my 1983 van new but as it turns out a 2500 has a payload rating of 3280 lbs and a 3500 has a payload capacity of 4280 so the 2500 was way more than enough for me
I live on a the rural coast of California about 140 miles north of san Francisco its pretty mountainous and a 6 cylinder engine would be constantly struggling especially when i have a 120 gallons of water onboard. I don't always carry a full tank of water unless im going to need it 80% of my customers are on wells and i charge a flat rate of 25.00 to bring water generally theres a only about 20 gallons on board for my convenience
I would add a rubber room...!
I think he used Flex Seal. I have fiberglassed 2 tanks so far. Works great.
My blower is a roots 47 47 is the model stands for 4" gears 7" lobels its rated to run continuously @ 3600 rpms . Most companies that build machines don't run blower at max rpms for a couple of reasons #1 noise at 3600rpms my blower screams! #2 is heat i know that cleanco runs there blowers at 2900 to get more heat outa the blower heat exchanger so when setting mine up i went with their recommendations. My spare machine is simply set at engine rpm of 1350 steamgenis recommendations never bothered to check blower speed. (No blower heat exchanger on the spare). As far as maximum vacuum lift on your machine. I couldn't tell you all my experience is with sutorbilt and roots blowers. But a lobed blower is positive displacement and with no vacuum relief theoretically should continue sucking and pumping down till eighter something breaks, belts spin ,engine stalls or tank collapses . the vacuum relief is or should be set at manufacturers recommendations. Roots says 15 i set @16 im only 6.5% over and should be ok. My old 47 (retired 47 pink, used for mockup of frankinstien) originally came new in a 1991 steamgeni pto and is 34 years old. Used in 3 different machines before retired and has oner 17k hours on it running @ 16" lift. It still runs. It is shelfed as a spare, it started to have a slight knock and is the reason for retirement. If it weren't for that it woud have been rotated back to service in my spare machine replacing the sutorbilt 4m (roots 45 equivalent)
Have you called your local hydramaster distributor to inquire about the cost or feasibility of buying a new tank? if you plan on running this machine for any length of time perhaps that would be the way to go? If so, eighter live with the leak, or maybe put a "bandaid " on it for now, and have the new tank there waiting for slower times to take the machine off line and replace it with new and be done with it? But if your business plan is to just run this machine for a year or two and step up to something else that would not make sense financially. Im of no help there im the kinda person that still has my original truck mount machine i bought new in 1983 tucked away in storage and was in running shape when put there in 1999
