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Hey Guys thanks to all that helped with the waterheater situation. I drained the tank down just past the upper element. When I removed the element, I found that the element had only about 3 inches...

Thanks guys. Wife just finished washing clothes [thankfully she only uses cold water], so I can drain the tank and start all over. If any more questions will reconnect

Thanks - John

Am going to drain the tank again, remove the element, and recheck it. One other question, when I depress the reset, it doesn't catch. Could this be that the element is bad?

Thanks appreciate your help though this. I think I might have powered up before the tank was full causing the upper to burn out.

Really thanks

John

The reading @ the upper was almost like a capacitor in that when I attached the leads, the meter swung toward short but stopped and slowly moved back toward open and settled at the ohm reading I saw

That's the way I did it. I took both wires off each element before reading

Thanks for responding. Here's what I found based upon your directions.
Upper Element: [on x1 scale] 40ohms
Lower Element: complete short

With power turned on @ C/Bkr
Upper Thermo: power in...

My water heater seemed to be running out of hot water sooner that normal. Since the elements have never been replaced [7 yrs], I thought this might be the problem. So I shut off the power, cut off...