Gilmour Foam Gun Failure -- HELP PLS!!!

I was wondering if anyone knows a case where in their gilmour foam guns failed. I bought my foam gun probably a year and a half ago. I probably just used it 7-10 times before (worked great) then I got busy and never got around to using it anymore. Today, my detailing bug got the best of me and I decided used it again. To my dismay, the foam gun doesn't work on settings A-D. When I use setting E, it sips the soap but at a very slow rate. I would say that the current E setting acts like the A or B ratio before. And also, it doesn't mix the soap at a constant rate. I have to keep on shaking my foam gun in order to keep it going. If I leave it steady, it seems to stop sucking the soap occassionally. Before, I have been using setting D or E and I go through my mixture pretty quick (1 pass of the whole car). Now, I bathe the whole car twice and it only consumed approx 15% of the mixture I put in.

Any ideas? Does anyone know how I can fix it or what's wrong? Any help or advice would be appreciated!!!!

Thanks guys!

 

Have you tried cleaning it? Check the feeding tube and make sure it's not clogged?

Not sure what you could use to "clean" it out, but feed some water through it and see if that helps first.

Hope this helps.

 

It sounds like the brass cap on top of the adjustment head went Mia.

 

This brass part should be screwed securely to the body (not raised like mine is, I unscrewed it a bit for illustration). If it's missing it would cause mixing issues (too much air)

 

Thanks for the response Mindflux. I wish this was the case so that the fix is easy but I have the plastic version as seen below:


*Image taken from DD*

Any other ideas? I really wish I can get this fixed.

 

I'll try putting warm watter in the container and try sucking that. I'll also check out the feeding tube and see if there's any debris.

Thanks!

 

UPDATE GUYS!!! Problem solved! I took it apart. I was worrying over nothing. There's nothing that can be destroyed and it's easy to put it back together.

Anyway the main problem was that the gasket in between the ratio selector and the top part of the foam gun got unseated. Now I'm not sure if this was causing a loss of pressure or a clog. Either way, I just placed the gasket back in its rightful position (it has a holder) and it worked!

Thanks for the responses guys!

 

Nice job, Bri I'll have to keep this in mind as I have the same model Foam Gun as you do.

The company doesn't say this anywhere, but you are supposed to rinse the gun well under a sink after each use to prevent any soap from drying up and causing issues.