My marathon pool repair journey is towards its end finally, or so I thought. Tonight was a big night, I was finally firing up my pump after a month of digging and working in 100 degree weather. So far I have ran and connected one new suction (skimmer) pipe and one return (jet) pipe. I was told prior that if I had to I could just run off of those since the other two are deep near the bottom. So for now I wanted to get the filter running so that we could go ahead and use it as I finished up a few other things. Also the bottom return and suction inlet/outlet is plugged up at the moment. So cleaning, shocking etc would of been nice before diving down.
Anyways I can't prime... I know the lines are hooked up properly as I pressure tested them. I let it run on and off for awhile and it wouldn't even begin to pull water. Although I could see a few times that bubbles came out of the jets briefly. So I unhooked everything and blew air through the skimmer line backwards. A geyser appeared so then I used a wet vac and sucked through the line at the pump and I got water. The line seems to be OK.
But... it just runs... I don't even get the "gulps" going on if you know what I mean.
Any ideas? I wasn't sure if you could get prime via just one suction line. Or if for some reason this wont due to having one disconnected? I am stuck...
Thanks guys!
Anyways I can't prime... I know the lines are hooked up properly as I pressure tested them. I let it run on and off for awhile and it wouldn't even begin to pull water. Although I could see a few times that bubbles came out of the jets briefly. So I unhooked everything and blew air through the skimmer line backwards. A geyser appeared so then I used a wet vac and sucked through the line at the pump and I got water. The line seems to be OK.
But... it just runs... I don't even get the "gulps" going on if you know what I mean.
Any ideas? I wasn't sure if you could get prime via just one suction line. Or if for some reason this wont due to having one disconnected? I am stuck...
Thanks guys!