Hello everyone. Been reading threads from time to time and got lots of useful info but finally joined because I have a question I needed some clarity on.
I was trying to figure out why my pentair challenger pump wasn’t working. I figured out it was a capacitor. Got it changed but I had separated the housing and pump in my process to figure out the issue. Was leaking when I put back together so I got a new housing oring. Even after new oring still drips at bottom and I have tried to reseat it so many times. Have a buddy (works on pools for a living) that’s going to come by in the next week to take a look.
And now when the pump turns off prime is lost and won’t come back when pump turns back on unless I add water to pump basket.
I changed out lid basket oring but hasn’t fixed issue. I am assuming the drip leak between housing and pump is why water leaves pump basket but wanted to get a sure answer that can cause the issue and isn’t something else. Assuming that’s been the only change I have to think that’s the issue.
I was trying to figure out why my pentair challenger pump wasn’t working. I figured out it was a capacitor. Got it changed but I had separated the housing and pump in my process to figure out the issue. Was leaking when I put back together so I got a new housing oring. Even after new oring still drips at bottom and I have tried to reseat it so many times. Have a buddy (works on pools for a living) that’s going to come by in the next week to take a look.
And now when the pump turns off prime is lost and won’t come back when pump turns back on unless I add water to pump basket.
I changed out lid basket oring but hasn’t fixed issue. I am assuming the drip leak between housing and pump is why water leaves pump basket but wanted to get a sure answer that can cause the issue and isn’t something else. Assuming that’s been the only change I have to think that’s the issue.
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