I turned the pump off and reattached it but still couldn't get it to pump enough to vacuum. it had good blew water about 15 feet and almost shot out of my hand. it was slightly leaking a small amount of water in between the pump and the engine.the pressure hose ended up coming loose and popped off the nozzle. when I first cranked the pump on it was pumping but just a slow trickle was coming out of the sluice. it has a 2 inch cam lock and 2 reducers the first is 2 to 1.5 and then another one that's 1 to 1.25. I'm running a 3 horse predator engine with a pump that's supposed to be 325 gallons per minute. I have a jobe footvalve and made sure I primed the pump so there was no air in the foot valve. 20 ft of 2" suction hose and about 6 ft of 2 inch for the pickup hose. I'm using a jobe suction nozzle that has a 1.25 inch pressure hose and a 2 inch suction hose. The sluice has a jobe stand it sits on as well. it is a keene a 52 sluice with a jobe 2 inch highbanker / dredge hopper. I have a 2 inch dredge / high banker combo I put together.
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