3jakes
New Member
I am in the middle of replacing my well pump & foot valve jet body assembly.
30 foot depth, Goulds J5, 1-1/4" Send, 1" return, & 3/4" from pump to the pressure tank.
This is about the 3rd or 4th time in my 40 years of being here, that I've done this job, so it's not my first rodeo.
Last time around, I was able to find that white nylon to use as fittings. (Threaded to barbed in the pump, & barbed elbows from a short horizontal piece out of the pump then down through the casing.)
This time the supply house said nylon is no longer carried it's brass, or the gray poly.
I heat the black pipe with a torch, slide the gray fitting inside & tighten the hose clamp quickly as tight as I can by hand with a nut driver.
When assembled, out of 6 joints, I have 2 leaks.
On the 3/4 line out of the pump to the pressure tank, I had to add a union in line to get a little more length.
There I have 2 leaks. The 3/4" fittings seem to be more prone to being collapsed & deformed by overtightening or the heat out of the black pipe makes it soft.
Would I be better off spending the big bucks & go with brass fittings? The barbs on those seem sharper, & might seal better.
I just never had this much trouble before with the nylon fittings.
Any advice?
30 foot depth, Goulds J5, 1-1/4" Send, 1" return, & 3/4" from pump to the pressure tank.
This is about the 3rd or 4th time in my 40 years of being here, that I've done this job, so it's not my first rodeo.
Last time around, I was able to find that white nylon to use as fittings. (Threaded to barbed in the pump, & barbed elbows from a short horizontal piece out of the pump then down through the casing.)
This time the supply house said nylon is no longer carried it's brass, or the gray poly.
I heat the black pipe with a torch, slide the gray fitting inside & tighten the hose clamp quickly as tight as I can by hand with a nut driver.
When assembled, out of 6 joints, I have 2 leaks.
On the 3/4 line out of the pump to the pressure tank, I had to add a union in line to get a little more length.
There I have 2 leaks. The 3/4" fittings seem to be more prone to being collapsed & deformed by overtightening or the heat out of the black pipe makes it soft.
Would I be better off spending the big bucks & go with brass fittings? The barbs on those seem sharper, & might seal better.
I just never had this much trouble before with the nylon fittings.
Any advice?