Tim in Fort Worth
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I've got one zone that frequently doesn't pop the sprinkler heads up all the way. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't I recently fixed a small leak on the threaded connection to the valve on the charged side (it's not the problem) and decided to test the manual control. I opened the manual valve a fair amount and immediately got full pressure to all the heads. Dang near popped up all the way to the next county. All the other zones work fine. So what is the likely problem? I'm suspecting the diaphragm, but I replaced the diaphragm on this valve about 5 years ago. The only other thing I can think of is the solenoid. And if it is the solenoid, is it easy to fix? Valves are relatively cheap, but after the recent leak repair I'm not looking forward to dealing with this line again. The valve is located about 12" from a T-fitting that passes water to the other valves, with the base of the T-fitting reduced and feeding the valve. I've got about 1 more cut in the PVC before I'm too close to glue on to the 3/4" pipe coming out of the T-fitting. On the outflow side of the valve it runs about 12" before a 90* fitting sends it down to a T-fitting, which runs both out to the yard and back under the previously mentioned plumbing. It really sucks to have it stacked like this with such short lengths of pipe to work with. I'd have to dig up about 10' to be able to bend the 1 1/4" PVC to use a connector. On the bright side, I used a 1" compression fitting on the outflow side, so if I have to replace the valve the only dicey part is using up more of the short length on the charged side. Thanks for any help you can give me.