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    Feb 23, 2008, 09:36 AM
    How to Prime irrigation pump
    The installer put a Jet-Rite 2 well tank where the priming tee is. There does not seem to be anyplace where I can fill pump and piping with water. The pump has not been used in about 1 month and was unplugged. Now it needs to be primed and I don't know what to do!

    Can someone please help!
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    Mar 27, 2008, 10:24 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by sharplaw1
    The installer put a Jet-Rite 2 well tank where the priming tee is. There does not seem to be anyplace where i can fill pump and piping with water. The pump has not been used in about 1 month and was unplugged. Now it needs to be primed and I don't know what to do!

    Can someone please help!
    How do I prime a water pump?
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    Mar 29, 2008, 07:54 PM
    I don't know how everybody else does it,but I have a double hose bib on my sprinkler pump,and when I need to prime it ,I just hook a washing machine hose (or a double ended female connector) to one side of the hose bib on the pump,and the other to my city water and I turn the water on, make sure that the pump side of the hose bib is open,so that water from city(house) can flow into pump,and I turn the pump on. You can hear the pump when it starts to prime and when it does turn off the hose to the city(house)water. And dis-connect. Make sure that the irrigation lines are open when doing this,so that the air can escape. I have been doing this for 10 years now when the water table gets too low, and priming the pump is a must, and it has not failed me yet , good luck! OOPs I just noticed you saying there was no priming tee?Is there a pvc pipe on it anywhere to splice into?
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