Bissell Plus leaking water through front of machine

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So we have an old Bissell Plus carpet washer which we use for cleaning our car seats and I went to use it recently and noticed that when I fill and attach the clean water tank, the water floods out through the front of the machine at floor level.

 

Bissell plus carpet washer showing where the water was flowing/flooding from the main water pipe

 

So I removed the clean water tank and had a look and seems that the there is a valve type system that is operated from the handle.

I then removed the handle from the main body by removing two screws

 

The handle has a trigger that when pressed pushes a plunger at the base of the handle, this plunger then presses onto the water valve in the main body

 

Main body water valve (maybe it is a water valve lever)

 

The plunger, trigger and valve (lever) seemed to be working correctly, so I carefully re-attached the handle to the main body of the Bissell carpet cleaner and ensured that the handle plunger sat correctly on top of the valve (maybe it is a water valve lever)  now when the clean water tank is attached to the bissell carpet cleaner, no water leaks and the handle trigger releases water as it should do.

So a disassemble and re-assemble seems to have fixed the water leak, probable due to a stuck water lever causing the water valve to leak water.

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