Hoover pressure switch adjustment/replacement

[tjohndavies]

Hi guys

We have a Hoover AL 130 which has developed a problem with the pressure switch.

It seems extraordinarily sensitive. Slightly too much soap, too much washing, r in the month, and it will click and click and click instead of switching off the water valve. It will then work right for a week or two before the problem surfaces again. It is driving my wife bonkers.

I have blown down the tube from the drum, which is clear and does not appear to be holed. On taking the switch off I find it has three adjustment screws. Looking from the back, with the hose connection uppermost, they are:- central, ten o clock, and there is a very deep one just below the hose connection. The one at ten o clock is half way out of its housing.

I cannot find an adjustment proceedure for these on the internet, and I cannot find a supplier or a new one. I have never in thirty years called a repair man in yet and am loath to do so now obver something I seem to have diagnosed correctly, but don’t just like to ‘twiddle a screw and see what happens’ – especially as there are three to choose from!!

Anyone tell me how to adjust the thing, or where to get a new one if this isn’t a good idea? The machine is five years old so I suppose our hard watert may have got to it, but it doesn’t come apart to enable one to clean it.

Thanks

John Davies, Walsall

[Penguin45]

Re: Hoover pressure switch adjustment/replacement

Do Not, do not, do not attempt to adjust the pressure switch……. Replacement is the only option.

Part number 28375042 – about £15 from memory. An email to spares@ukwhitegoods.co.uk for confirmed prices and ordering.

Regards,
Penguin45.

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