Garden Pump No Suction

petedln · Post by **petedln** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:20 pm

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could give any advice on what might be the problem with a couple of small water pumps I'm trying to run...

I got them from the garage of a deceased relative about five years ago (don't know how long they had been in their garage before that) and apart from quickly plugging them in to check they had life I have never used them or tried to use them. Now I very much need them but I can't get any water flow from our garden well (about 3m deep).

Neither of them were working initially when I tried them, both of them had stuck impellers, but they only needed a little clean and they were running. One of the models is a GP 3000 Inox, the other I don't know as it doesn't say, but it's identical except for the casing being plastic instead of stainless steel.

Anyway, I'm running a hose down to the well with a one way valve on the end, the pump is running, but nothing is coming out. I've tried self priming, filling the hose and casing with water before running, but it just gurgles and fires a little bit of water out before the pressure drops off and I'm back to a pump running and nothing flowing.

Any ideas? Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for the help!

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:29 pm

Does it look like this?

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If so where is the pump in relation to the well, and what hoses have you got on it and where are they?

Also have you tried pumping out a bucket? (of water)

Pictures would also help

petedln · Post by **petedln** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:38 pm

Yes that's the exact pump.

Inlet hose coming in from the left (on the picture) and then going directly down into the well, garden hose coming from the top.

I will get a picture of the setup to help tomorrow, but I'm not at the building site right now (we are building a house).

I did try and pump out a bucket, but I think I got false results there as the moment the water flowed I stopped it (since I was on my apartment balcony at the time). I will also try this tomorrow but I didn't have a bucket or anything on me when I was at the building site.

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:46 pm

Info on the hoses would also be good. (Make, diameter type) or which one and where did you get it/them

petedln · Post by **petedln** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:56 pm

The garden hoses are 13mm, although the water isn't getting that far anyway so I guess that doesn't matter... the inlet/suction hoses are 25mm, 4m length, made by Emil-Lux. Or at least one of them is, the other one looks identical and has the same dimensions but it's an old one I've had lying around so not sure who made it.

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:50 pm

Are they self priming? I am sure they all are these days.

DWD

petedln · Post by **petedln** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:10 pm

Well that's the funny thing, I dug out the manual online and it says it is self priming, but the operating instructions in the same manual explicitly tell you to prime it. As does a sticker on the side of the pump... I primed it anyway, my plan is to go back tomorrow and pour endless amounts of water into the filling opening with the pump running...