Any well pump experts on here??

Fullboost21 said:

I had a similar problem earlier this year. The PVC pipe thread to nipple fitting on the pump to water line had cracked. The pump had some age on it, so all of it got replaced.

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Fullboost was your water pressure coming & going, or was it always low?

Cape Fear said:

Fullboost was your water pressure coming & going, or was it always low?

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Coming and going. Before the water pressure dropped, I started to hear a water hammer sound when the well pump would cut off.

Fullboost21 said:

Coming and going. Before the water pressure dropped, I started to hear a water hammer sound when the well pump would cut off.

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Thanks for the info, I'll have to file that away. I would've expected the crack in the nipple to keep the pressure artificially low all the time.

Cape Fear said:

Thanks for the info, I'll have to file that away. I would've expected the crack in the nipple to keep the pressure artificially low all the time.

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Shortly after, water pressure dropped for good. Probably when the crack grew larger in the fitting.

Fullboost21 said:

Coming and going. Before the water pressure dropped, I started to hear a water hammer sound when the well pump would cut off.

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that's how mine was when the bladder tank was shot. I put in a larger one and a higher pressure 40/60 switch along with a new T manifold and pressure switch and we have been cooking with Nitro ever since. I have a static 45-50psi now.
Which is good because I hooked a nice water softener and RO system to have some 99.79% pure aqua in the house.
Suck on that, Municipal water sources!

cold1 said:

Years ago, a buddy of mine had a similar situation. we went to change the pressure switch and found that the nipple it was on was 98% clogged with sediment. We replaced the nipple and everything was fine after that.

Just one more thing to think about.

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I'd give it a try: how do you do it??

Chuckman said:

I'd give it a try: how do you do it??

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First picture is the pressure switch on my setup but yours should be similar and nipple he is refering to is feeding bottom of that switch.

Circled below is nipple that gets clogged up feeding into pressure switch sometimes as well if you have hard water.



If you attempt it I would recommend both nipple and pressure switch 50 dollars in parts or less for both depending where you get them. Pressure switch wiring is pretty simple long as you cut pump breaker and verify power is off and pull that top cover you can just disconnect wires and reconnect in new switch same way. Look at your old switch before you go to get a new one or watch your gauge when working normally to see pressure range pump cuts on and cuts off at. Should be either a 30-50 psi or 40-60 psi i think just need to determine which with most being lower range.

Thanks @Jp8819 . I was going to do it today but time got away. But today...no issues, at all, with dishes, 4 showers, various flushes. Yesterday, my wife and kids were gone all day, and last night after one shower, halfway through laundry, it crapped out.

Chuckman said:

Thanks @Jp8819 . I was going to do it today but time got away. But today...no issues, at all, with dishes, 4 showers, various flushes. Yesterday, my wife and kids were gone all day, and last night after one shower, halfway through laundry, it crapped out.

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I would try to pay attention to see if issues arrise more when family is there and alot of water usage or more random when not much water had been used threw out the day or over couple days. Not 100% but that may tell you as well if it is a water level issue or another problem somwhere especially before drilling a new well since thats not cheap.

Jp8819 said:

I would try to pay attention to see if issues arrise more when family is there and alot of water usage or more random when not much water had been used threw out the day or over couple days. Not 100% but that may tell you as well if it is a water level issue or another problem somwhere especially before drilling a new well since thats not cheap.

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Right now it seems random.

Drilling a well deeper is the last, last expense I want to incur, which is why I want to clean out the nipple and do some of these other things before I do something that expensive and drastic.

I'm confused with the family gone for an entire day a single shower and load of laundry would make the water go down, yet yesterday four showers, dishes, etcetera and no problem.