Hi, I'm a new poster, I'm a handyman at a prep school. I was hired as a carpenter but 90% of my day is plumbing, and 100% of my weekend calls, as was the case today. I was called in as the local rental house had no water. As I arrived I noticed the pump running but not pumping water. I knew this was bad news right off the bat. The pump is an old Myers pump. In 11 years I've never had to work on it, it was that reliable. I took the top primer plug out and added water, that didn't work. I took the regulator out, it was completely closed. There seemed to be a lot of mud and gunk in it. We went to town for a new one only to find this is an old and seemingly obsolete part. The problem is now deferred to Monday as I have a host of questions to answer. The problem is either:
-A lack of water at the spring coming into the pump,
-A recent storm stopped up the spring/pump intake,
-The regulator stopped up causing the pump to run the spring dry,
-The pressure switch is bad causing the pump to run the spring dry,
-The pump impeller is bad.
Another question I have concerns Myers pumps--why does this pump have two pipes on the intake? Is one of them a drain-back, like a furnace pump? If I blow back into the spring to unstop the pipe, which pipe would I use, the bigger or the smaller? If I need a new pump with only 1 intake, what do I do with the extra pipe?
-A lack of water at the spring coming into the pump,
-A recent storm stopped up the spring/pump intake,
-The regulator stopped up causing the pump to run the spring dry,
-The pressure switch is bad causing the pump to run the spring dry,
-The pump impeller is bad.
Another question I have concerns Myers pumps--why does this pump have two pipes on the intake? Is one of them a drain-back, like a furnace pump? If I blow back into the spring to unstop the pipe, which pipe would I use, the bigger or the smaller? If I need a new pump with only 1 intake, what do I do with the extra pipe?
