As most of you on here know, I pressure wash for a living, so a month ago I started losing pressure in my pump, I tried to fix it replacing all the normal wear parts, I even changed the bypass and it changed nothing, so I took it into Landa and asked them to see if the packings were going bad, even though I had no water in the oil of the pump.
They didn't get back to me, so I called them as I was heading over there for a couple parts, well they had not gotten to it yet, but I needed them parts anyway so I went over and bought them.
I got a call the next day I believe and was told that the head was cracked, and it would cost $695.00 to fix it, well I told them I could buy a whole pump new for less, all I got from that statement was stunned silence, I finally told the guy to pack it up in a box and I would come over and pay for the dis-assembly charge that I did know about, when I got there the salesman said no charge, I looked at him and said no way, I knew about the charge when I left it there, well I just bought a few more parts and left, I don't feel so bad since I bought some parts from them which I don't do a lot anymore because I can get them for less online.
So I looked at the head and thought that maybe I could see a couple small hairline cracks, but I had another pump out back that thru a rod when the plastic fluid level window fell out while it was running and puked all the oil out, looking at these parts I realized that there isn't much to these pumps, and I will now start doing the work myself on them also, they are really quite simple, don't know why I was scared to work on them before, I put the used head on it after I looked for cracks and found none, I have not tested it, I will put it on when I lose another pump, to much work to install it just to test it.
So today I received 2 brand new pumps from the place I bought them, I checked ebay, and found nothing for less than $650.00 plus shipping, I paid $878.00 shipped for 2 of them, and Landa wanted even more for just one pump than I paid for the two, but they do install it for free.

The packings

The packings separated

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