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It is an old well with a shallow well pump and 1/2 HP motor. There is only one pipe leaving the pump to the well. Also I read other posts and keep seeing about adjusting air pressure in the tank, I have looked at the tank and don't see any where to this. Are there tanks that don't use the bladder?

I think you're right Gary. It worked fine for a couple of days after cleaning out the line. Now it runs but won't reach the cutoff pressure again. I'm not sure if it's the pump or a possible leak. It seemed to hold the pressure when it did reach the cutoff, so I don't think it leaking, but not...

I removed the tube and blew it out with compressed air. There was some crude when I first took it off. After putting it back on the pump ran up close to 40 pounds but didn't seem to want to cut off so I adjusted the cut off pressure to 38 and it seems to be working fine now. Thanks for the great...

I'm glad I found this forum. I have a problem I can't seem to figure out. We have an old remodeled farmhouse with an old well. I don't really have many problems with it except if you run water to long sometimes it will lose its prime. It has been a dry summer so far and last wekend I used a...