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Old 550 in ground tank, how many inches is absolute minimum?

hh409
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in Oil Heating
I was looking to run my old 550 in ground tank to absolute minimum before hooking up my new 275 basement tank. The old 550 is from the 1950's . Typically how far above the tank is the pickup and how many inches of oil would you estimate absolute bottom?
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The only way to know....
Without historical data from a run out, is to let run out. Everyone installed them differently, and if there was a water problem in the past, someone could've pulled up the line a little. Typically we install the new tank, fill it, run line over to burner, and run the old tank until its dry. Then do a proper change over.
Along with your other post, if you convert to one pipe, don't forget to remove bypass plugsteve0 -
thanks for the info
got it
thanks for the info0 -
I always
pulled the suction line up about 4" off the bottom. Is the tank stickable?0
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