Figures. Broke Jandy pressure relief valve while trying to replace gauge!

[dndrich]

Pool pals:

So, I wanted to replace my pressure gauge on my Jandy CL-580 filter with a nice gauge I bought from TFT. My assembly is this one.

Broke it off while trying to unscrew the pressure gauge. Figures. I easily was able to get the stub piece out of the filter, so no problem there. I ordered a replacement, and it should be here tomorrow. But my question is, has anybody successfully taken one of these apart in order to replace the pressure gauge with a better gauge? I can't tell from the exploded drawing in my Jandy instructions whether it just screws in there.

 

[jblizzle]

That almost looks like you would lose the air release valve if you screw in a different gauge.

 

[dndrich]

You would. I'm talking about removing the pressure gauge from the assembly and putting in a new one. That would maintain the air release valve. I was able to unscrew the thing as it turns out, because it just screws in. I tried the new pressure gauge I bought in the broken assembly just to see if it fits, and what do you know, the housing is too small! So I broke the thing for nothing! Oh well, I have another one coming from Amazon tomorrow.

 

[jblizzle]

Well that sucks. Thank you Jandy for being none standard and forcing you to use there crappy gauge. You should be able to find a good gauge with a smaller pipe thread, but not sure where.

 

[dndrich]

It isn't the pipe thread. That is standard. It is the fact that the new gauge diameter does not fit into the shroud housing the old gauge. I could cut the plastic off, and it would fit.

 

[jblizzle]

Ah ... yeah one of the features of the tftestkits gauge is that it is larger and easier to read. I would cut off the shroud.