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Raucina, 1.) Where does one get a sleeve for the submersible or will a 4" - 6" diameter piece of pvc do the trick? 2.) Raucina said, "If the pump was cycling a lot, your tank is no good or waterlogged, that is your primary problem to solve. " I think the cycling was due to screwed up...

Don't know what original pressure was. I drained the pressure tank and checked the psi. The psi was 16 - 17 psi. Mountain water in cistern is 60 - 65 degrees.

I recently purchased a house high in the NC mountains. The water supply is a spring. The spring was partially developed and flows into a 1000 gallon cistern. The cistern has a 3/4 hp submersible pump (12 AWG wire) that pumps water, in a 1" pvc pipe, up 20 -30 ft in elevation across about 350...