[Richard Hudgins]

Mark,

I did some quick figuring here on pressure drop of your upper hose. I made some assumptions on the data.

Liquid Friction Pressure Loss

Date: 4/9/2012
Nominal Pipe Size: 1
Pipe Schedule: SCH 40
Flow Rate (gpm): 50
Viscosity (cP): 1
Specific Gravity (water=1): 1
Temperature (F): 160
Pipe Roughness (ft): 0.00015
Actual Pipe ID (in.): 1.049
Fluid Velocity (ft/sec): 37.14
Reynolds Number: 301486
Flow Region: Turbulent
Friction Factor: 0.023
Overall K: 2.51
Piping Length (ft): 6
Short Radius Elbows: 2

Pressure Loss (psi): 23.27 Head Loss (ft): 53.7