DuroMax XP650WP 208cc 220-Gpm 3,600-Rpm 3-Inch Gasoline Engine Portable Water Pump, 50 State Approved, XP650WP, Blue

This is a fantastic gizmo. Mine sat in a "water proof" container under a leaking roof for 3 yrs and collected 2 inches of water in the waterproof container. it was corroded and slimy when I pulled it out, but started on the second pull and ran smoothly.

Saved me thousands of dollars. Storm Sandy flooded my Dad's basement on Long Island. The disaster recovery companies, "thieves", were charging $2500 - $3400 for pump out. With no experience I ordered this pump and appropriate hoses. It was unbelievable! In 45 minutes it pumped out 30" of water in a full basement. A big caution: You can not run the generator dry. Also, priming the pump proved easy, but the procedure was not described in the manual for applications requiring big suction side lifting. The manual indicated that the only necessary priming is to pour a limited amount of water into the pump body through a plug on top of the pump. This is probably not adequate if you need to suck up a significant lift such as 6 feet down a basement. I was advised by someone with a lot of experiences to fill up the entire discharge hose if possible, and possibly part of the suction side, in addition to the pump body as indicated in the manual. Once you get a big column of water moving on the discharge side, the resultant vacuum will pull the water up into the pump on the suction side. Use the water in the discharge side hose to keep the pump full and wet while you wait for the pump "to catch". It took close to a minute, but man did it pump. Worked first try. For this reason you probably need a long discharge hose to prime the pump effectively for a long suction lift. I imagine many people think that they can skip buying a discharge hose. This would be a mistake. If you only need to lift a couple feet then no discharge hose is probably necessary. I bought a hose kit with 20 ft suction and 25 ft discharge. I followed the advice above and it worked great! I will say that the required massive and stiff 3" suction hose is awkward to handle, and it was a bit of overkill. The pump became useless at about 3" of remaining depth. It just sucked a hole in the water and sucked mostly air. A pool cover pump loaned to me was able to suck the floor nearly dry, less than 1/4". The sump pumps seemed to require at least 1.5 inches of water to operate. I am no expert, but I had great results with this gas pump and I think above advice is accurate.

I rated it a 4 with some reservations. Quality ok but not great plastic choke piece had to be persuaded to apply choke after 3 or 4 starts. bolts on frame came unfastened then frame cracked completely . Then the motor seized with nothing but water in the crankcase which I assume was from a seal around output shaft leaking. all this being said, Performed the recommended maintenance and ran the pump about 15 days straight 24 hours a day just stopping long enough to add fuel and change oil. Thats over 300 hours similar to driving a car 20,000 highway miles or about 75 cents an hour which would have been worth it. Since it was within 30 days of purchase Amazon replaced without cost to me. Still I would be upset if they didn't and also bought hose kit which would have become worthless. Also plus this motor started first pull every time unless I forgot to choke it. Its definitely not a commercial rig but would have cost me $150 a day or $450 a week to rent $900 for the two weeks that i used this one and I only paid $220 a good deal in my book. This pumps moves a lot more water than you might think ,it would lower a one acre body of water about a foot a 24 hour day. I only primed it once even when motor ran out of gas it held prime in suction hose.If you need it to empty a basement or swimming pool or similar need it serves the purpose well. You may want to use pvc pipe instead of the expensive hose if not pumping very far especially on suction side.Hope this helpsHope this info helps youHope this helps

Wow!!! This thing can MOVE water!!!! It will easily POP a shop-vac hose on the outlet side. I kinda wish there was a speed slower than idle so my hoses would stay together, lol. A 20ft shop-vac hose will stretch another 3ft under the pressure and little jets of water will shoot up. I guess I'm going to have to break down and buy an outlet hose. :D3.5 gallons of water every second boggles the imagination until you see what kind of forces we're talking about!The shop-vac hose works fine for the intake side though. A little electrical tape seals the deal. No priming or anything like that.... Just fill the pump with water from a gallon milk jug, plop the intake hose in the water, fire it up and hang on!The engine runs nice and is relatively quiet. The labels were backwards for the choke and throttle which made it a little confusing when I first fired it up, but no big deal. I'm just tickled pink I can move THAT much water for $200!!! I tried one of those $80-$90 electrical pumps first. I suppose they would be ok to empty a fish tank, but for a pool or pond.... Forget about it. Twice the price I'm moving 100 times the water!I was a little worried since I've never heard of PowerMax before, but it seems to be every bit as good as a Briggs so far.... They look a lot alike too.Shipping was super fast. Got it 2 days earlier than I thought.

We own a pool company service and building company, and the carburetor on our Red Lion pump we have had for over 14 years went out. We decided to try this product, as it was WAY cheaper than the Red Lion one, and would be delivered faster, and we have thousands of dollars of jobs lined up, since this is our busy season. We did THREE SIMPLE clean water jobs with it, and it DIED on us!!! It used more than double the amount of gas and took double the amount of time to drain the pools. Now we had to start from scratch and order the Red Lion pump after all. Plus, we have lost THOUSANDS of dollars in revenue, as we can do a lot of our jobs without a pump!!! WORST PRODUCT EVER!!! 😡