Hello Everyone, I have an Above Ground Deep Well. The piping goes down about 70 foot. Ive had Bad seals for a while now causing the well to come unprimed several times and i recently replaced the seals and it seems to hold water alot better. So heres the thing. The Power went off recently and the well lost its prime so this is when i decided i should go ahead and replace the seals...The seals were made from leather i cut em myself cause you cant buy them anymore. After doing that i pretty much just put the pipe back down and replaced all the above ground piping..Went and bought a brand new pump(flotec 1hp says it pumps to depths of 100ft) Well i filled it with water...Turn it on and no pressure seems to build....i did this for hours today and nothing ever happened. The guage never even moved...I did try a 1/2 horsepower before this pump but ended up taking it back to get the 1 horsepower cause i thought i might need a bigger pump. The 1/2 horsepower the most i ever seen on the guage was around 10psi....And that was after messing with it all day....It barely pumped any water at all.....So thats what i got with the 1/2 hp and today i got nothing with the 1hp...Ive primed a well a million times so i mostly know how to do it but i dunno what my problem could be here. Any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated thanks.

Having a lengthy unexplainable problem with water well. (Water well company came and and 600 bucks later on a 2 inch galvanized casing, shallow well, approx 200+ feet, stay-right pump 1.5 hp, pulled stems, replaced (new) foot valve, leathers, new regulator, new sensor to start at 60 and stop at 40, very little sand - repeat very little sand, 112-135 feet to water after sand. checked pump after replacing o-ring gasket some three weeks hence, took apart and checked impellers, all appear to be good, pump quiet. when pumping goes from 60psi to almost zero, returns to sixty when you remove the small copper tube and put it into a bucket of water instantly. This is a new problem of only two weeks now or less. Until four days ago it was pumping enough that we did not lose our prime but, it took time to fill up the 85+ gal galv tank. Dug around the casing, diked it, filled it with water, no air bubbles and no drain or fill up of water. Water well people gave up and left, came back two days later and did the pump dis-assembly, re-primed, filled up the tank and it will not fill or pump properly after using the water even nominally but, they maintain it is not the pump but, rather the water table. Our neighbors, residential area of homes about 100 feet apart are not having problem with their well. Well continues pumping (trying to) until I finally shut off the pump to keep it from burning up and will not maintain the water but, will maintain the pressure at 60psi until we finally use up most of the water. Now they want to drill a new well. Everyone I talk with seems to believe it is not the well but, rather that something from the scenario has been missed. We are on Soc Sec and can not afford a new well (two inch) and besides we don't want plastic casing and there is apparently no rust of our casing although it is ten years old. Remember we checked for air leak or water seeping back and nothing. Having the drought in So Texas but, we seem to be only one in this neighborhood with well. It has been fine for a year although we did lose electric a couple of times and had to reprime the pump as apparently it did not hold the psi? Please anyone with knowledgeable thoughts. Also read that the difference between a 4" well and a 2" well production of water is only 10% maximum.. Much easier to work on a surface well pump than a submerged pump and certainly cheaper, only two of us and don't use that much water (no lawns or car washing things of that nature. HELP