Why is my sprinkler head leaking
RainBird 5000 Troubleshooting Leaking Heads
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hey I'm Sean from sprinkler daddy and in
this video I just want to talk about
some troubleshooting stuff for the Rain
Bird 5,000 heads sometimes when people
install them they give me a call or drop
me an email and say that they're having
troubles with it with the head actually
leaking not from or between the the
turret and the actual base of the
sprinkler they're having some some
leaking problems there and 95% of the
time more often than not the solution is
what during the installation you've got
some dirt in the lines or rock in the in
the fitting or something like that
that's getting into the sprinkler and
causing it to causing the water to shoot
out in places that it's not supposed to
so the best advice that I can give the
first thing that you should try if
you're having troubles with the
sprinklers leaking one thing you can do
is just screw the sprinkler off of the
fitting and run water through to make
sure that there's no dirt in the lines
that are getting in the sprinklers and
then actually take the sprinkler off and
you can you can clean it out a little
bit so what you can do is this top the
thickest part here can actually screw
right off so then you've got the body
there and then the the actual gear and
the rotor here and just make sure that
there's there's no rocks in anywhere
little little stones little pieces of
dirt that can all cause the sprinkler to
leak so if you're having troubles with
your Rain Bird 5000 leaking on you a
little bit after you've installed them I
would definitely suggest cleaning it
first before you go replace the whole
head