Bushman 1 HP Booster Pump Kit

The Bushman 1 HP Booster Pump Kit is the pressure-building stage between your storage tank and the fixtures, sprinklers, or process lines that need usable flow. When a gravity-fed poly tank can't deliver the pressure a discharge line demands, a 1 HP booster like this closes the gap. It arrives as a self-contained unit: 29 in long by 17 in wide by 17 in tall, 32 lb empty, with 1 in FPT inlet and outlet ports. Four verified facts, no guesswork — 1 HP, 1 in FPT in/out, 29 x 17 x 17 in, and 32 lb — so it drops into a pump house, utility corner, or pad-mounted enclosure without a large footprint.

How it connects

The kit runs 1 in FPT (female pipe thread) on both the inlet and the outlet, so your suction and discharge plumbing threads to any standard 1 in MPT nipple or union. Bring PTFE tape or pipe dope to seal the joints, and plan the mating male-threaded fittings on your side of the connection. That 1 in porting is sized for a single discharge line off a bulk poly tank. Because it is a 1 HP unit, keep the suction line flooded: mount the pump below the tank's lowest outlet where you can, and protect it against dry running. Our guide to pump priming and dry-run protection walks through suction geometry, foot-valve reliability, and the low-level cutoff sensors that keep the mechanical seal alive on tank-fed pumps.

Sizing the pump to your duty

Size a booster by the flow (GPM) and head (pressure) it has to deliver, not the tank it draws from. Work out your peak simultaneous flow and the pressure your farthest or highest fixture needs, then confirm the storage volume feeding this pump can keep up with what it moves. The 1 HP class and 1 in port set the ceiling on what this kit will push, so verify your flow and head against those numbers before you commit — oversizing a pump against a small tank just cycles it harder, while undersizing starves the line. See the technical drawing on this page for the port layout and overall dimensions, and if you want a second set of eyes on the match, call us before you order.

The 1 HP Booster Pump Kit ships LTL from our Nebraska plant, with freight quoted live to your ZIP — enter your delivery point in the Freight Cost Estimator for a rate, or call 866-418-1777 and we'll talk through pump duty and quote delivery in one call. Listed before freight; nothing about pressure boosting should be a guess, so reach out if you're unsure the 1 HP unit matches your flow and head.