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Found all the parts by seaching the internet. The gasket kit and impeller came via Amazon. The motor is an AO Smith I got at another website. Look on the old motor, it is probably a 56J frame, really common. Then just find one by HP and current draw. I also googled "rebuilding Hayward...

I just rebuilt a 15 year old Hayward superpump. I bought three things: A two speed higher efficiency motor, 1.3 SF, a new impeller, and a full seal kit. The rest of that pump is built like a tank and once cleaned up and fitted with all new gaskets, is running like a new pump. The motor costs...

There is a diagram in the accompanying literature for two wire 220V. Load neutral is left unused and the green screw on the motor is connected to the green which goes back to the panel. It is as John says, you don't connect the load neutral. Hope the fact that one leg is being switched...

That can't be correct because the GFCI measures current difference between the neutral and hot. They need to be the same. If they aren't the same, which would obviously be the case if the neutral isn't hooked up, it would immediately trip. Which is what it is doing.

The problem is not the circuit, the problem is that there is no terminal on the two speed motor for the white (neutral). In another thread it was pointed out that 230 V does not use a neutral but the GFCI requires one in order to function. There's no problem figuring out how to wire at the...

OK, another dumb question about the GFCI. There are three posts plus the pigtail on this 2 pole GFCI. The bottom one is for the "return" white wire neutral from the load. HOWEVER, with 230V service you don't use the white wire, correct? At least there is no place on the pump to hook it up...

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure I understood the rating properly. Don't intend to split the legs.

Looks pretty clean. See those 4 big bolts that hold the motor and the first black flange to the pump basket body? You can undo those and remove the business end of the pump where you can inspect it and see if it will run (just a quick on and off test) when pulled out of the basket end. If it...

If a double pole GFI, the kind you install in the main breaker panel, is rated at 30 amps, is that 30 amps for EACH leg or 30 amps total, 15 amps for each leg? Thanks.

Ah, thanks for that bit of information. Appreciate all the help, folks!.

That was perfect, thanks!

No Bama, it would have to run to the T104 box and then from there to the T106 box to provide ground for the 120V timers in each. I have separate timers as I already had the T106 and would be adding the T104.

Bama, as currently wired, the red hot wire runs the pool pump only, with a white wire neutral. I have a second hot wire in the pump wiring box that is not currently in use. They apparently wired for 230V pump but only installed 115V using one leg. I'm going to now use the black leg, running...

I just rebuilt two of these, one requiring full gasket replacement, one just needed a new shaft seal. You want to get replacements for the main shaft seal and the body and intake gaskets. I bought a complete Hayward superpump kit from Amazon that included all the gaskets and the shaft seal...

I'm converting my existing Hayward Superpump to a 230 v single phase pump motor. My current setup is 120V. In my panel, I have two legs: Red and black. Each is 120V. They come off of a two pole GFCI breaker. So at my pump wiring box, I have Red-hot 120V, Black-hot 120V and White common. I...