[FIX] Orbit Impact Sprinkler won’t rotate

Many of times it’s the ricochet flapper spring, they come to weak from the factory or weaken over time. The spring is to weak to bring the flapper into the stream of water and it stalls. Just take to spring hook out and turn the spring a half of turn around attracting the hook on the other end, giving it more tension, or you can cut the spring a little bit and bend a new hook at the end if you have no place to attach the hook after a half turn, with it being shorter it will also increase the tension. Please do simpler trouble shoots like shown above if all else false and is still stalling your spring is to weak and I recommend tensioning it like i described. It has always worked for me when all else fails.

I watched this video because my tripod sprinkler kept sticking. When I went to remove the sprinkler head for cleaning I found it was loose. I tightened it up and it started working fine. That was an easy fix!

Thanks for making this video. It's hard to find one that talks about anything other than adjusting the diffuser plate or the pin or how far it goes around in a circle. Turns out I had two problems. 1) There was a massive bunch of crud in the hose connection. Duh.... 2) As others have said, the rotational spring can get quite weak and it's good to experiment with different tensions and anchor points.

Thank YOU! I’ve looked for the specs of how the springs should be set and working, you’re the first one who address this!

😮that’s the exact one I have and it also tipped over!!! I’m gonna go try it RIGHT NOW!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 🫢Oh my word it totally WORKED!!!!🎉🎉🎉 I can’t even tell you how happy I am!!!! Some little piece of rubber came out 🤷🏽‍♀️ so maybe that was messing with it? I didn’t know you could unscrew it! Plus the connection point leaked like CRAZY! So I checked the washer. It was toast. Put a new one in…😮😳😫…NO DRIP!!! Thank you sooooohooo much for sharing! I was gonna be so totally depressed cause that sprinkler is my life(in the yard😁)! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Thank you, thank you! Works even better now! 🥳

Soaked mine in vinegar to get some of the hard water off, also saw that a metal piece was bent and was restricting the head from turning freely. Thanks for the great ideas.

worked like a charm. All I did extra was spray some cleaner down the tube once I had it detached from base.

Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge. God bless you.

My deflector shield is loose and won't tighten. Flips down every time and won't stay up. Doesn't have a nut so I can't tighten it.

This worked for me! Thank you

My issue turned out to be a clog in the small nozzle where the water comes out. I just unscrewed it and poked the stuff out with a toothpick. Then rinsed, screwed back in and it was working great.

I'm having buyer's remorse. Bought three of these last year. One didn't work right away (wouldn't oscillate), and now, a second isn't oscillating after being carefully stored away for the winter. When they works, they work well, but why can't they last longer?

At 2:13 minutes into this video, "BK" says to "Flip that," What is he flipping? He doesn't point it out in the video (that I can see). Does anyone see what he's flipping?

The problem with mine is a broken spring.

This tip worked on my metal one, (not sure if it's an Orbit), but didn't work on my cheap crappy plastic one.

Mine won't do the return from the end. It just sits and sprays at the very end. Any idea what the issue is? It's less than a month old

Bearings sticking? I wouldnt expect orbit heads to last very long. Their popups are very poor quality, with seals breaking and water leaking everywhere. Glad you were able to get it going again, but don't expect too much out of these. It sucks everyone went to the cheap design of impacts, the older ones back in the 70s and 80s and up the Brass ones made by rainbird, nelson, melnor, etc were great if they were serviced regularly. Remember the old Nelson Beta II and Alpha II? Those are unicorns and i have a few of each. Still work great to this day.

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I’ve studied the construction of mine thoroughly and came to a conclusion that it’s same as your. Didn’t rotate. Water bucket fix applied. Rotating now. Wtf. Thank you, kind internet stranger.

yeah but whos gonna wake up at 430 am every morning to water the garden by flipping the tab.thank you