UPDATE

Posted by john in la on December 20, 2005 at 18:34:40 from (68.222.11.69):

In Reply to: Water Well Problems posted by john in la on December 19, 2005 at 18:05:30:

Thanks for the tips...........
A little history.......
My well is 220 ft and about 25 years old.
I have a 1hp shallow well jet pump and a 80 gal equivalent tank. I call it a bladder tank but feel this is wrong. It is one of those tanks with a rubber baffle half way down with air on top and water on bottom.
I had to replace the pump housing about 15 years ago so I replaced the check valve and pressure switch at the same time. The motor is original so its 25 years old.
The tank is about 10 yrs old.
I thought my switch was a 40/60 but when I went to get one today I noticed they come in 20/40 and 30/50 so I got a 30/50. I am pushing water over 200ft through 1 1/4" pipe to the house.

I went out today and looked it over. Not to bad as it was about 60° today.
Took out the gauge to see if it was clogged and it reads 40 lbs in my hand so we need a new gauge.
Tried to take off the pressure switch and the pipe nipple broke right off from rust so new nipple and pressure switch.
While I got the tank empty I checked the air charge. 16lbs. Guess this tank was for a 20/40 system and lost 2lbs over 10 years so not bad.
Filled the air charge to 28 lbs and installed the new gauge and switch.

Every thing seems to be working fine now but I do have what seems to be a shot of air or hiccup when the pump comes on. My check valve is most likely leaking back into the well so that will be next project. WHEN IT WARMS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks again for the help.

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