Jack Valance wrote:
I pulled the switch all the way up looking for a kink in the yellow line
going from the top of the well pipe to the switch saw nothing noteable.
WD i sprayed on the springs relays that go back and forth just to put some
oil on them. I did not just spray the whole switch.
This weekend I'm going to pull up the pipe just to make sure no hole in the
pipe as somebody said..

You've got flex tubing for the connection to the pressure switch?????
And it's long and just loosely laid in the access area??? Sounds like a
problem waiting to happen for sure. I'd say good chance there is a kink
or it collapses or is full of crud. I'd also use solid tube and make it
short and straight if at all possible. Do you not have a pressure tank?

I'm not used to any system w/o one nor any place that doesn't have a
well house for all the components to be installed in neatly so these
(imo makeshift) arrangements w/ all at a well head or in a crowded
little culvert or somesuch are a wonder. Anyway, I'd surely inspect it
and it won't be a leak as that would fail and stay failed--it'll be a
mostly plugged or collapsed line. My experience has been that the 1/8"
pipe used gets sediment and/or corrosion and when that finally gets to a
closed-off situation any final little grain of sand or rust fleck can
plug it or not depending on where it is.

Again, are you saying a replacement pressure switch began showing the
same symptoms in a very short time? If so, I'll repeat it isn't the
switch itself. (OK, unless the pump is short-cycling or some other
operational problem that is eating contacts or something but there's
been no mention of such).

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