how old are the hoses?
if they are multiple decades old you can easily have problems with the rubber detiorating. the major problem area would be the hose on the vacuum side of the pump. in operation, the pump vacuum can actually collapse the hose ( which also has a metal support spring in it, which is also prone to rusting away ), cutting off water flow.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
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H.H. Goddard, Human Efficiency (1920)
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