Fixing a Water Well that Keeps Running Dry. Hydro-Fracking, Full Pump System Inspection 

The people in your area have no idea how lucky they are to have you available to service their wells. I hope your RU-vid channel gets you more business than you can handle. You are the most honorable guy we have ever seen on RU-vid. Keep up the good work.

That motor needs Rings. Guides wont cause excess crank case pressure unless its on a boosted application . Rebuild that iron duke Those are good motors. I agree with your service accumen . Give the customer the most Honest value you can give them. The office may have a different ideaology but what you do in the field shows to your character and helps the company whether they know it or not .

My journeyman in refrigeration taught me the same thing about checking over everything. His idea is: we’re not just there to change parts or do a job; we are there to solve a problem, and maybe prevent one in the future. Love the video! Keep doing what you’re doing!

Yep, I agree with what you said! That's what an honest contractor does. Do what's right and you'll never be without work! Great video! Lee

I love your content and how you present it. And like you said in the past, its best to pass our knowledge on to anybody who's willing to accept it! ✌️

Exactly right. Be thorough, do the right thing, check over everything and resolve. You are one of a kind, and wish others were more like you, Sir!

You are right on the money. For me, what I'm paying for is the expertise that someone like you bring. I can do many things myself, but when I call a pro, I'm hoping to get someone who will evaluate the entire problem and make recommendations.

Big picture as an HVAC guy here on YT says. Good attitude as well. Helps a lot a keeps customers coming back! Called service! Good men here!

Instead of electrical tape to secure the wire, you should give self fusion silicone tape a try. After it is stuck to itself for a couple of minutes, it will never let go. It doesn't have any adhesive to degrade over time like regular electrical tape does.

Sir, I just want to compliment you on your business ethics and high level of customer service. It is people like you and the people on your team that will make or break a company's reputation. Thank you sir. I wish more people/businesses would follow ya'lls example. 100% a fan Your channel is my ASMR lol

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Here in the UK everything is chargeable. You're part of a dying breed of tradesman who does a proper job 👍

Hope we get a update on how the system is flowing in a month or so. Thank you for the video. Hope the crew / family and you are doing well.

I’m in Quebec, we have lots of water , my well was made in the mid 1800’S went a bit dry in 2019 yes 175 years ago , it’s 30 feets deep and it’s a 1 inch pipe , I called a friend that has mini excavator, we find the well then pulled out the pipe and we put a 1 /1/2 stainless steel pipe, 50 feets deep , removed the lead pipe from the well to the house , yes made of lead , not too healthy , filled the excavation with very compacted sand , then using my pump I pumped a bit over 5000 liters to create the new well , the well is about 50 feet from the house , after pumping about 2000 liters into the well it was visible the earth was lifting of about 6 inches on. 60 feets diameter, by the time I went to a friend refilling my 1000 liters taut the earth has lowered , it was slowly raised as I was pumping water into the well , after the fifth taut I let it set for 2 days , then pumping water from the well , it was a bit sandy and Claudy at first but after about 30 minutes of pumping the water was very clear and no debris.

Good to see a professional and honest contractor. Bravo Sir.

I agree 100,.%. I do automotive diagnostic. I check the whole system and discuss this with the customer before I start that similar to a flat tire it may have more than one issue causing it to go flat ie a nail...bad valve stem...rim leak due to corrosion ect. We don't know what we don't know. I keep them informed as I go sometimes I give a high worst case estimate to ensure a proper repair...only billing them for what was needed .They appreciate when im under estimate.Integrity matters. In the videos I've seen you always have Integrity. Keep to your values. God bless.

Great commitment to your customers!!!!!! I wish all contractors worked as hard as you, give the customers the best work possible! BRAVO

I really like to see that integrity, the consciences you bring to your work. Knowing one has done good work and that one can hang their hat on their day.

Would have like to know how fracking actually works and an idea of the approximate cost for that job. Thanks for a very helpful video!

I had that mindset instilled in me at an early age and it's good to know other people out there have the same mindset the other important part of that mindset is to pass that knowledge on to others. Most people take more pride in their "bullshit" words and using the blame game than just getting the job done right and that applies to all jobs not just your field of expertise.

Good job well done Nice to see someone doing things correctly Regards from Qld

I agree with you

What a great work ethic !!! You are correct on satisfying the customer and then yourself !!! I wish you were close to Central Texas !!! I would rebuild that engine for a frac on my well !!! GREAT JOB !!!

I want to see a follow up with these folks and see that what you did made a difference for them.

I learned a new word today--"jackleg".

Had the vintage 1992 heat pump stop working in a rental, expected this to be the end of it. Called the local A/C guy, he got there before I did, found a blown fuse, and since nothing else was wrong he cleaned out the air handler and topped off the refrigerant. Now I keep their number in my phone, not going to call anybody else. He could have easily told me it was just old and dead and charge 5 grand for a new system, I wouldn't have known the difference, but he only charged $115.

Totally agree, you are an outstanding guy

Agree 100%

Love your posts! I have learned so much!

I’m here for the 350 swapped frack rig let’s gooo

Awesome. Thanks

Good business acumen, since you are there...... There is an A/C guy on ytube, his motto is look at the big picture, fix it right, fix it once. The engine is pushing blowby, if it has gotten hot it has taken the tension out of the rings and they are no longer sealing, hence crankcase pressure pushing oil out at the highest spot on the engine. A side effect of worn rings is oil in the combustion chamber/process causes detonation, IE preignition under load, and that will eventually beat the bearings out of it. A painted radiator may look good at one time, but the paint inhibits the heat transfer. If the cooling/airflow is marginal to start with, like no fan shroud, excess paint, worn out impeller on the water pump it is not going to remove the heat and the engine will consistently run hot under load.

Agreed 1000%

Great video!

Not everyone is like you, love your videos.

Honestly you should keep that iron duke and rebuild it. Parts for them are easily available since the post office's fleet of LLVs use them. A V8 would just be overkill, take up more room, and require a much larger cooling system. Where the cast iron 4 cylinder that is the Iron duke both head and block are much more tolerant of being ran hot.

I agree

Good return

Nice job.

Hey Philip, Great video! Been watching for 1 1/2 . Boy I wish I could get you to frack my 600' well only getting 1 gpm. looking to drill another well on the property this summer. Keep up the good work, been learning a lot.

Great job with the well done and a great business model to go by!!

I really like your videos. You give an explanation about everything you do and you have great work ethics. You are an honorable person and that is much appreciated. Keep up the great work.

I agree with what you're saying! I do the same, and it is the only way to understand the customer's problem and actually solve it. (And it also gets me volunteered to clean up after other techs...)

Yes I agree, the one time I had to have a plumber come out to work on my pressure switch, when he was waiting for pressure to build or after words he checked the whole system and fixed a few other items that needed attention.

I agree. Do the whole job.

Agreed. Look at everything

In 1985-87 I worked in the oilfield here in Oklahoma on a frack crew, I find your video to be interesting, water wells are very different than oil wells Thank you for this video & I’m glad that I’m subscribed

Wish there were more of you 😊 ✌🏻😎

Awesome job. It's really nice to see a Yung guy no his s..t keep up the good work and be safe.

I have a suggestion, can you do a more detailed picture and explanation of the packer, showing how it inflates out of the well, also that you never fully expand it out of the well as it might pop out of the well. Love your videos, very interesting, informative and entertaining.

You are good at what you do and care about people, It is hard to find good contractors that don't wanna screw you....

I love your videos. I am a new subscriber to your channel and have been watching all your videos. I am from northern Wisconsin, so I understand cold. I am in the process of changing out my pump as it up and died due to a lightning strike. I have a fifty-year-old well that was not grounded back in that day. I had to have a well driller come out to pull my old pump as it had a rusted pitless that would not budge. They hooked up to it and it snapped off the pitless in the process. Now that I have the old pump out, I will be replacing the pitless and installing 1 inch poly pipe with a 1/2 hp 240-volt 2 wire pump. I enjoy your teaching and am looking forward to replacing my system from start to finish. Thank you again for all that you do. Your awesome.

Nice work mate. I agree with your ethos, the customer wants the well to work but it’s not just the well. It’s the full system of well, pump, valves, switches, pipework and filter etc. they all must work together so a top to bottom diagnosis of the system is required to determine the fault. All the best.

I have stayed on "ticket" before and gone off ticket. It generally depends on the customer. I have had customers who want extras but will only pay the bill after arguing about it for six months. On the other hand, when I take my car and lawn tractor to my mechanic, the car mechanic is allowed a $500 overage, pre-auth. Usually, I get a call and say something is up, but if it is minor, they just fix it. On the other hand, my car mechanic does not always charge me to look at my car when it is a few minutes of labor, like taking porcupine quills out of my car. I missed all but the tail. The last time my lawn tractor was at the shop, I told him to add up to 30 minutes to do little things. He made the sheet metal fit much better and addressed some annoying things. I also have folks that I will NEVER go back to.

What you were describing is integrity and pride in your work. Unfortunately these traits can be hard to find.

I would bet the rings are responsible for 90% of the excessive crank case pressure.

Heij :) I enjoyed this hole systems overview. And I have same opinions: You´re a good, thorough, big picture worker and yes, the motor needs a rebuild. If You´re really attached to it let it bore out, new pistones, new bearings and seals, get the head dressed up- good again for 30 years. Give Jim´s Automotive Shop (yt channel) a ring, maybe You fix his well, he fix Your motor- all good. They are just as good with engines as You with wells.

You should try a heavier oil like 20W-50 and/or Engine Restore in the silver can. That's the one thing I've seen work agaisnt bad oil consumption and blow by. I've heard of iron dukes powering cars, trucks, boats, and mail delivery vehicles. Hydraulic fracturing rigs is a new one to me. Maybe next someone will put one in an airplane. Did you mention what year the engine is?

So many questions. I came across your channel by accident and now has me wanting to ask questions. I will have to look through the video list but we have a property/cabin in a high mountain park in CO. This property has an older well and a new septic system. When I purchased the place the well hadn't been used in several years. I had to replace the pressure tank and all the plumbing to the tank (tank had a hole in it, new pressure switch, check valve, etc.) Well worked ok but I let someone stay there for a week and didn't show them to shut power to well when they left. Have an outside freeze proof spigot outside and when this person left he left a hose on the spigot and spigot open. Hose sprayer was on the hose so the hose could just build pressure. He left and 2 days later we went to the cabin and the water was running everywhere because the cheap hose ruptured. Looking at my game camera I found that the hose ruptured shortly after they left so well pump was running for 2 full days. After this happened I had to replace the check valve on line to pressure tank because something caused it to fail so it would allow water to flow back toward pump when pump shut off. Ever since this time I have been getting air in my whole system. Not sure if my well is drying up or something else is wrong. I haven't called a company yet to come and check the whole system. Prior to this issue with the burst hose the well was working just fine with no air in the system.

For the motor rebuild, you might want to also oversize the radiator while you are at it since you said it overheated. Or maybe an heat exchanger with the water you pump?

With watching your videos on the Hydro Fracking that your little 4 cylinder engine does work really hard and it might be a good idea once you pull the trigger to replace it, go with either a Ford 300 6 cylinder or the Chrysler 225 Slant 6 that comes out of an old 60's truck. The slant I have a lot of experience with and they are tough engines and can take a beating. Get a good sized radiator on them and they won't overheat either. You could push them all day and they won't care, as long as you feed it fuel they keep putting out the power.

On the Filters... I think it is Good to Have 2 Filters Run in Parallel to have less Pressure Drop.

yes be up front and honest

my man you are a credie to your trade keep up the good work

But you have common sense, good man!!!

A good example of an excellent service and no brainer. 20 minutes to do the job properly and prevent the need for a second visit. Unfortunately not contractor thinks that way in the belief that a second visit will generate more profit. Unfortunately for the customer their workload means they wont get back for several weeks so the customer has no alternative but to carry on without the thing working and wait or find a contractor who can

If you said that was a Pontiac Sunfire engine. Pontiac builds excitement! Nice job.

I have a brand new gm iron duke crate motor sitting in my shop. I bought it 10 years ago from a chevy dealer that went out of business, I think I paid $200 for it.

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I know you mentioned 350 swapping the rig, but a 4.8 or 5.3 ls would be really cool and have power for days and are pretty cheap to build and work on. Just passing my money wasting thoughts onto you!

We have the same situation as this Video, 340Ft well, Pump down to 320, we run out of water if we go overboard, i mean two showers an a load of laundry... I wish you were in our area I would love to get a quote on fracking our well to get these kind of results... Id say our refil rate is maybe .5 -1gpm... not ideal. Were in the North Carolina Area if you are near by.

I like your work ethic. 👍😎

It's completely different when you're just an employee sent out to do a job. Doing anything extra on top of what you were sent out to do is potentially a loss of revenue for the company because they could otherwise charge the customer for it. And it also depends on the customer. Some people call professionals simply because they don't have the tools to DIY it themselves. They know exactly what they want to get done and that's what they expect you to do. So yeah, going the extra mile is generally a nice thing to do, but it depends on circumstances and a lot of variables. If you work for yourself, the best is to talk to your customer, explain everything and find out what exactly they want, and if you're working for a company, the best is to follow the company policy.

I was asked to look at a well . 20 years old , never had bad experiences with it . I found the pressure tank was full of water , the pressure valve was blocked , springs in the valve were loose and galvanized pipe in the well . Told the woman this is what I found and they need to be addressed . Depth of well I found was 130’ . The well house is an underground block of concrete and full of leaves and was wet . Told he to contact a well company to do the repairs . She cussed me out because of the price the well co charged her . All new everything and good flowing water even the pipe from the well to the house

@H2o Mechanic Given the choice between someone who does it right the first time and someone who just does as their told. I'll pick tye person who does it right the first time. Even if that means I get charged 20-30% more. While I don't live anywhere near you, I'd hire you if I had a private well.

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Your reputation is everything The customer will call you back and recommend you to everyone Now with social media word spreads fast

You can buy a oil cap with a breather to let out the pressure.

I had an engine that blew oil out the dipstick. Fixed it by cleaning some carbon deposits out of the carburetor

If that's blowing the dipstick out of the change your vacuum lines you got a vacuum line close plugged up

your pcv vent on top of rocker cover is pluged!

our pressure tank is 50 gallon at the well

You can try and cheat (if you haven't already) and use 15W40 in the Iron Duke.

I agree with your work ethic, but i also work in an industry where clients will take advantage of that. I'm in IT, you can go to a site for an issue, and they'll hit you with with 10 more requests. What i do in those cases is "Sure, i'll look at that, do me a favor, go ahead and email our help desk so a ticket gets created for that." its the difference between 1 1 hour ticket or 4 15 minute tickets. (we bill by the hour in1/4 hour increments)

a 3 or 4 cylinder diesel engine on that kind of a rig would be crazy. Torque for days and would never bog down much at all.

I think 10 mil tape might work good.

How often should you change the filter?

That filter was DOA. Great job. Why don't they make the filter case clear? Same as Semi's fuel filter cases are clear. Easy check.

Can a 185 feet deep well be fracked in lubbock tx with wells in every 1 acer lots?

Do you guys ever have problems with bits breaking or rods getting stuck from the hole collapsing while drilling? I know that has been an issue in my area with it being mostly sand and limestone.

Is there any way to vacuum the sediment out of the bottom of a deep water well?

How long does the water horse into the well actually cause that’s right you thank you

with all that sand on the packer and the sediment in the filter bowl is there a problem with IDK maybe the caseing is leaking (I don't even know if that is a thing???) just curious :)

I wish I could get you to frac my well in Mifflinburg pa. I called a local company about fracking My well and they refuse to even come look at my well since it’s within 10 feet of my house. What would you recommend? It only runs dry when I fill 150 to 200 gallons tanks

I just had a new well dug and the water is still coming with an orange tinge, a sediment that stuck to all the pipes in my house and no matter how many hours I run the water, it’s still orange from the clay stuck to the pipes 😭 Is there a way I can power wash my whole house piping inside? Or a chemical or anything? Any suggestions would be so appreciated, I’m desperate 😭😭😭

ho to get iron out ?

Holy crap you're getting oil blowing out of your dipstick when you run it? You are getting a ton of blow by I will bet you a million dollars your rings are absolutely shot! I would say definitely rebuild that engine. It will be well worth it, pun intended. Lol

How much bleach should I put in a 450ft well I put a new pump in now I have a smell from my water. Just wondering

i didnt think you were supposed to lay a vertical tank on its side?

Disregard the last message how long and what does the Fracar actually do in well thank you