Arla
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First post, and I'm completely new to pumps and wells (and all that they involve).
This weekend decided to figure out the well pump that's on my property (located in El Cerrito, Northern CA), owned the house for about a year, prior owner hadn't used pump in "some" years, and had determined that the motor had frozen.
First off, my determination based on number of pipes (two going into the well) is that this would be a deep well jet pump (pump claims to be a honeywell single jet pump).
Taking the above ground parts off the pump, took the pump apart to find that the motor seemed okay (still quite happily spun the shaft) but the pump body was fairly encased in rust, took it apart, cleaned it all out of the majority of the rust and put it back together, now motor and pump seem to spin quite happily.
Tried putting it all back together and found that it doesn't pump water at all out of the well, so next step was to pull the pipes out of the well, found that the "discharge" pipe (smaller of the two) seemed to be just a straight pipe (not attached to anything) with a few breaks in it (seems wrong to me), the inlet pipe, seemed to be intact, going down about 35-40 feet with what I assume is the jet assembly at the bottom of it (discharge pipe from assembly wasn't connected to anything at all).
Took most of this apart, put the jet assembly into a bucket of water and connected both the discharge and intake pipes to it, tried running motor but still nothing, priming the pump seems to raise the level of water in the bucket, would this indicate a broken jet assembly? Is there any advice on taking these apart or is it really just a case of buy a new one (and if buying a new one, would one need to buy a new pump too?)
The other question, is it possible to test that the pump even works (without the Jet assembly) I'm thinking maybe a single pipe going from the inlet to the discharge would allow me to see if water is going to be moved by the pump, but without the jet assembly I'm not sure if that actually would work?
This weekend decided to figure out the well pump that's on my property (located in El Cerrito, Northern CA), owned the house for about a year, prior owner hadn't used pump in "some" years, and had determined that the motor had frozen.
First off, my determination based on number of pipes (two going into the well) is that this would be a deep well jet pump (pump claims to be a honeywell single jet pump).
Taking the above ground parts off the pump, took the pump apart to find that the motor seemed okay (still quite happily spun the shaft) but the pump body was fairly encased in rust, took it apart, cleaned it all out of the majority of the rust and put it back together, now motor and pump seem to spin quite happily.
Tried putting it all back together and found that it doesn't pump water at all out of the well, so next step was to pull the pipes out of the well, found that the "discharge" pipe (smaller of the two) seemed to be just a straight pipe (not attached to anything) with a few breaks in it (seems wrong to me), the inlet pipe, seemed to be intact, going down about 35-40 feet with what I assume is the jet assembly at the bottom of it (discharge pipe from assembly wasn't connected to anything at all).
Took most of this apart, put the jet assembly into a bucket of water and connected both the discharge and intake pipes to it, tried running motor but still nothing, priming the pump seems to raise the level of water in the bucket, would this indicate a broken jet assembly? Is there any advice on taking these apart or is it really just a case of buy a new one (and if buying a new one, would one need to buy a new pump too?)
The other question, is it possible to test that the pump even works (without the Jet assembly) I'm thinking maybe a single pipe going from the inlet to the discharge would allow me to see if water is going to be moved by the pump, but without the jet assembly I'm not sure if that actually would work?
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