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Lurch, I bought a house with that same Pioneer dry bsmt setup. I bought the house a year and a half ago during the summer drought. Found out since the pump is going on and off 9 months a year...Its running rapid cycles now, not much downtime. I'm glad I replaced the Zoeller cast iron pump after the last wet weather we had- the float would stick and the backup battery (bilge) pump would go on along with a heart stopping alarm. I'm buying another pump to keep next to the system in case of a failure when (as mentioned above)- you can't find one in a crisis. A plumber reccommended doing that. For 125.00 its cheap insurance and a hedge against inflation- they all wear out eventually. Its easy to replace, just make sure you get a check valve if you need one. Mine was at the pump and I didn't see it until I took the old one off- good thing I recycled it cause my jury rigged 800gph billge pump was slowly losing ground as I worked. Good luck...
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