[heritagecleaning]

This is odd. I have a Mytee 1003 DX.

If I leave any solution in the clean tank and put the machine in the van, the solution leaks out of the bottom of the machine through one of the vac outlets. It leaks fast if the solution is sloshed around while driving, but even at a standstill there's still a drip, drip coming out.

I can't see how this is possible but it's happening.

Any ideas?


Owen

[V_Purcell]

Mytee has an old problem that they use vacuum manifold to house the vacuums on. If water collects there by either vacuuming the water out or not leaving the vacuums on long enough after you finish the job, water collects in there and leaks. It also mean that if water get out, then air will leak in when the vacuums are on. This will result in a small vacuum pressure lost, this may not be apparent, as it will be only a small loss. You should take the vacuums off and reseal them, this will not stop water getting in to them but will prevent leakage.

[john martin]

The newer ones have a revised direct mount manifold and the dual exhaust ports exit
on the backside with cuff links so u can hook up the twin vac booster giving u quad performance .
Whatever is leaking on the clean tank has likely nothing to do with the vacs , water is just exiting where it can ..   suppose check the pump to water tank hose and connectors and what ever else exits the cleantank .

[fibresafe]

Do you own a Mytee machine John?

[john martin]

Do you own a Mytee machine John?

No i don't     

I do admire the company though  ,  from a small family business making the hot turbo heat exchanger in a shed  ... in twenty years they have become a giant  , inhouse designing  , plastic manufacture  , assembly  all under one big roof . 

However , they are focused on the USA market and the machines brought to the UK have so far been a bit of a disappointment  ,  no 1005dx .. no M5   , none of the interesting boosters ... and what is offered here is not optimized for the UK 230v
example , the 1003dx has a 1600w heater ,  which would be the max for that machine at 120v  , but  who is going to want it here when all the UK manufactures have 3000w heaters or indeed two 3kw heaters in some cases .
Also ... in the last few years the UK manufactures  designs  ,  The Enforcer , the Airflex  , the Evolution ... simply blow the USA machines out of the water in terms of design detail ,  quality and 230v compatible features  .
 

[V_Purcell]

I was the first company to import them in to the Uk, Mytee owned Steam Genie and sold out to another company, they in fact started off in a 2000 sq industrial unit, I know the owner and his uncle personally. I based my own Rhino machine on there's so I pretty much know most of the design flaws. The vacuum system is one, another is the the old heaters over heating and melting the bases, not to mention cracking in the soloution and dump tank. Warranty was a issue with them, so I decided to make my own machine.

[john martin]

I was the first company to import them in to the Uk, Mytee owned Steam Genie and sold out to another company, they in fact started off in a 2000 sq industrial unit, I know the owner and his uncle personally. I based my own Rhino machine on there's so I pretty much know most of the design flaws. The vacuum system is one, another is the the old heaters over heating and melting the bases, not to mention cracking in the soloution and dump tank. Warranty was a issue with them, so I decided to make my own machine.

A big shed   
Interesting ,  but they have improved so much in the last few years , flaws i'd say would no longer exist  .
What happened to the Rhino ?  was it a triple vac series machine ... or am i thinking of something else ?

[heritagecleaning]

Thanks for the advice. Looks like I'll be taking the top off and having a look what's going on in there.

[V_Purcell]

You have to separate the tanks as you cannot see below the switch indentation.
And you cannot see from inside the dump tank.

[Andy Hogarth]

If you open the speedster up at the front there is a little clear screw tight filter that gets clogged up, mine always used to gradually come loose and leak, starts slowly dripping but all collects in the bottom so when you tilt it back shed loads comes out.

Worth a shot

[peter maybury]

you know who makes what, where and the colour of their front doors but want help fixing a leak on one of their machines?
Peter
www.carpetcleanercardiff.comhttp://

[heritagecleaning]

We had to find out for ourselves, but Andy Hogarth (above) has hit the nail on the head. There is an inline filter between the solution tank and the pump with a screw top which had come loose and was leaking.



The water had appeared to be coming out of the vac exhausts but was actually leaking out around the sides of the exhaust-