Help me Save my Well...

[Reach4]

It looks like the bolts were removed and the pump was lost. The bottom plate and the rubber went with it, but the top plate must have stayed up top.

I was trying to imagine how there could be a spigot below the top plate. Ahhh. Split top plate.

It seems to me that it would make more sense, if using a double-split well seal, that you would want the spits at right angles rather than aligned.

 

[Valveman]

That kind of fishing isn't easy. You did good!

 

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[Craigpump]

Pretty much what I expected. Some unknowing individual removed rather than just loosen the bolts/nuts.

Consider yourself damn lucky to have gotten that out.

 

[Craigpump]

I was trying to imagine how there could be a spigot below the top plate. Ahhh. Split top plate.

It seems to me that it would make more sense, if using a double-split well seal, that you would want the spits at right angles rather than aligned.

Experienced techs don't drop remove the bolts.... Kabakoff used to make seals with pins in the threaded part of the bolts so the bolts could not be removed.

 

[Valveman]

Yeah very common mistake. I hear it all the time. You can still lose the bottom plate on one piece seals. Sometimes just the nut off the bolt will jam between the motor/pump and the casing and lock the pump in the hole. One reason I like larger casing.

 

[Craigpump]

Yeah very common mistake. I hear it all the time. You can still lose the bottom plate on one piece seals. Sometimes just the nut off the bolt will jam between the motor/pump and the casing and lock the pump in the hole. One reason I like larger casing.

True, but if it's an ABS seal the bottom plate won't jam your pump in the hole.