7mm-08
Twelve Pointer
Ok. So I had a fiasco a couple weeks ago after several years of my water pressure declining, and most recently the well not cutting off at all, yet providing extremely poor pressure. I suspected multiple problems, and I needed water. To save a few bucks I decided to give it a whirl myself and did all the tests that google gave me to do and knew I needed a new bladder tank. Off to Lowes I go. I come home with a new 36 gallon tank and yank out the old 20 gallon tank, reinstall and hit the switch. Well to my disappointment the well pump ran constantly and I had worse pressure than before. The pump was many years old an leaking around the shaft so I figured the pump wasn’t pushing enough water. It’s an above ground deep water pump. I yank the pump and splice in the new one and pressure switch. Set it to 30-50 and the empty tank to 28lbs. This time I hit the switch and presto! Now about two weeks later I still have good pressure and constant pressure as all seems to be working, but when the pump cuts off after refilling the tank after a long draw time it fills up, cuts off, then immediately short cycles once or twice for just a second or two then acts fine until the next time we use a lot of water. All my google searches come up blank for this one. I did add a check valve between the pump and tank when I was doing all the above. What gives?