OUR LATEST CHINESE HONDA CLONE ENGINE, PREDATOR 2" WATER PUMP
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| Big green hose is intake, red hose is output |
Our eighth Honda clone engine came attached to a 2" semi trash water pump from Harbor Freight. I'm not a fan of Harbor Freight tools but their Predator brand engines from China have been very high quality and easy to start. This influenced my decision to buy this pump a lot, if these engines were hard to start I would not have bought this many of them. This new one literally started on the first pull of the rope, amazing.
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| I wire tied a piece of plywood so it sits over the engine to protect from sun and rain |
We could not acquire enough of the 2" red output hose so I bought 2" PVC pipe at Home Depot and glued together the new drain pipe.
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| At first we just pumped water towards the drain but quickly created a swamp |
Overall I like the 2" pvc pipe much better than the flexible hose which can flip around and be pretty unruly due to the extreme pressure this little pump can deliver.
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| The swamp, in process |
The pump in action viewed from the house.
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| Look at the arc on that water output, don't get in front of it LOL |
As the pump ran it seemed to pump better and better.
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| 100 feet of 2" PVC |
The 2" pvc pipe from Home Depot got excess water all the way over to the drain that feeds the canal.
The output from this pump is pretty amazing, that's a 2" column of water that will arc 12-feet into the air.
The pump spec's say it pumps 158 gallons per minute.
At 150 gallons per minute we're talking 9000 gallons per hour. We ran the pump for 4.5 hours, it runs 1 hour and 10 minutes on a full tank of gas. We estimate that we pumped 40,000 gallons out of our big pond, it lowered the pond about 2" total. Wow, that pond holds A LOT!
