glad you got if fixed. On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Eric Christoffersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
