Pressure Tank or Well Pump Issue?

[Stoogesman]

Hopefully someday this thread will help someone with my symptoms not stress as much as I did over the weekend, wondering if my well pump was the culprit.

My 37 year old well pump is still hanging in!! I opened up the well cap earlier today and blew her some kisses and whispered some sweet nothings down the well!!

 

[Fitter30]

Amtrol 202. 40/60 lbs. 5.3 gallon draw down.

 

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[Valveman]

Awesome info!

The best part is my water pressure is beautiful now. I never considered it bad by any means but now she's coming out with nice flow!! $1000 well spent.

I am glad you got it working and an amazed how much abuse from cycling that pump has survived. But they don't make pumps like that anymore. If you want one of the new ones to last you must eliminate the destructive cycling that happens with a pressure tank that only holds 7 gallons of water and cycles even worse when the tank becomes waterlogged.

A PK1A with a 4.5 gallon size tank would cycle the pump considerably less than a system with even a large tank. Plus, if you think the pressure is "beautiful" while the pump is cycling on and off, you would not believe how strong constant pressure from a CSV is. People tell me the constant pressure from a CSV is so strong they no longer need soap in the shower. Lol!

Also, the PK1A would have only cost about half that much.

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[LLigetfa]

Final diagnosis is in...

Just had a new V100 installed and it now pulls 7+ gallons of water before the pump kicks on.

According to the specs:
Drawdown @ 40/60 PSI 8.6
Drawdown @ 30/50 PSI 9.9

 

[Reach4]

My 37 year old well pump is still hanging in!! I opened up the well cap earlier today and blew her some kisses and whispered some sweet nothings down the well!!

If you open your well cap, and see ants, see https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/blocking-tiny-ants-in-well-cap.100548/ That reminds me that I sanitized almost 3 years ago. Might go another year or two.

Regarding sanitizing, I guess that there is the possibility that sanitizing could trigger your pump to fail. I have not heard of that happening.

Do you know your pump info and what pitless you have? If so, maybe tape the data to the wall near the pressure tank. Do you know who installed your pump? If you don't have the pump/pitless info, you might contact them in case they retire and records get lost.

When I had well work done (demolish pit and install pitless May 2014), the helper slapped their sticker over the existing sticker of who had done the previous work. Action item: protect your existing sticker if you get well work down by somebody else. The earlier well company was booked up when I decided to go from pit to pitless. The new company did good work, other than covering up the competitor's sticker. The pump and pressure tank had been put in Nov 2002, and I had the same pump put back down when the pitless was installed. So 22+ years on the Sta-Rite pump and Flexcon Challenger PC144R pressure tank. I think about what replacements I would want, but they will control the timing.