They do sell 90degree elbows for garden hoses. Is there room for one of

those? If you need to raise the heater, it wont be easy when it's

filled. But it can be done. Of course all the pipes will need to be

shortened on top. Bricks work good under a heater to raise it, but use

the solid gray ones, not the red or colored ones with holes, because

those tend to crack.

empty tank before moving and if the tank is more than a few years old just wait till it leaks, before messing with it...

water weighs 8 pounds per gallon, so a 40 gallon WH has 320 pounds of water in it plus the weight of the tank, total with fittings probably near 500 pounds