Ok, being amazon the '2 day free shipping' ordered friday was due to arrive tomorrow but instead the mailman knocked at my door this sunday at 10am.
Thats good news. More good news is that the new pump appears to be a drop in replacement and seems to work fine. However, the pump replacement was more difficult than I expected. I might have been approaching it the wrong way, maybe my mind wasn't prepared for the difficulty but I found it pretty desperate. With left and right being relative to front of the machine: There is "pump assembly" connected to water tubes on left and right. Tube to left draws from tank, tube to right goes to brew area. Pump assembly is pump, then pressure relief valve (with its screw control.) To replace pump you must separate it from the pressure relief valve. But the right side of pump can spin freely... I found there was no room with the tools I had to undo the pump from the pressure relief. No confidence that I could put it back properly, so decided to remove pump and rubber angles. Pump is held in place by 3 rubber "angles", the angles bolt to the base plate of the machine, the pump slides through. To get pump out I undid the bolts on the bottom of the machine that feed to washers and nuts. Then disconnected tubing from left and right side of pump assembly, then pulled it out. Then use a 12mm thin wrench and a 14mm wrench to separate the pump from the rest. Attach new pump, then thread assembly back into place. Now comes the fun part. You need to feed the washers and nuts in, there's no room. Keep dropping and losing them. I even undid the portal under the boiler to give my fingers more room. Took me about 6 tries to get those washers and bolts on. Whole job took me just under an hour and was pretty damn fiddly and desperate. In hindsight it would habe been much easier to thread the bolts from the top out the bottom, use the nuts on the outside of the machine. Oh well. For time comparison, removing both boilers was 40 minutes, installing both was an hour, pid upgrade was 40 minutes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
