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Also my second problem on the pressure side and losing water for priming over night I’m addressing this week. Redoing a lot of the janky pressure side plumbing. But I was thinking that if it were the gasket at the impeller that would cause that as well. The odd thing still is some morning I come...

this is the first mention of this. Everyone else says no it is never past the impeller on the pressure side. I have a few more tricks up my sleeve then it’s new pump time. I’m first trying to get a used pump to borrow from my pool store to test it out. My pump is over ten years old, which I am...

Thank you so much!

Also when they tested they put the air bladder in the actual line. I don’t see any visual cracks in the skimmer baskets. Is there a way to test them. You think you would see bubble going in a crack if there was one at the skimmer. whatever it is, it is a lot of air. The leak company said that...

well, replaced the o-rings, lubed them up beforehand. Still lots of air in the filter basket and pool. looked with a magnifier for any cracks in the filter basket and found none. Before the filter basket there is a diverter valve to turn off either of my two skimmer lines or blend them. The leak...

Thanks. I just received my strap wrench from Amazon and it worked perfectly. I was able to open everything up and the o-rings are in fairly bad shape. Thanks to you I was able to order them fast via Amazon. Hopefully that will be the fix.

Thanks. The pump is a Pentair superflo so it does not have drain plug. as soon as the pump is turned off all the water in the filter basket rushes out to just around the bottom of the intake to the basket. BUT, it does not happen every time. For instance I went out this morning and the filter...

Yes indeed. This pool store has made me quite upset at times, but they are the only game in town. I had a sand dollar with a leak in it, they came out and replaced but reused the standpipe, laterals and multiport valve. They told my we should just use the old parts until they fail. Well...

Yes, great article. I still may have more than one problem. As you and most others have said most defiantly the air is a suction side issue and I’m suspecting the coupling at the front of the filter basket assuming that when they pressure tested the lines to the pool they knew what they were...

Already tried that thanks

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Yes lot and lots of bubbles. Coming out the jets. Inside the basket. Coming out my fountain feature. Gurgling in the sand dollar.

To make matters worse, in my area there are not pool repair places. There are installers that tell me they install but don’t repair. There’s my pool store who are useless. And I can’t find a plumber that repair pools. So I am on my own.

Yes and no. It can be fine for a week. Enough water in the basket each day that it primes on it’s own, yet lots of bubbles in the basket and pool. And then you go out one morning and it has lost most of its water in the basket And I have to manually prime it. Today for instance, I tuned it off...

This has confounded me for a long time. I went out again and turned the pump off…the water did not gurgle out of the filter basket! It stayed full! I sprayed all of the joints couplers, valves, everything with soapy water. Watched and listened…no detectable leaks. Turned the filter back on, it...