Recent content by masonsurfer

That sounds like a good idea, I might have to try that. I turned the pump on and everything looks OK. The pressure went from it's normal 15psi to about 19.

Greetings! Great site, I've learned a lot from reading here. Anyway, I have a leak in my return plumbing. At least that is what's suspected at this point. This has been there since sometime last summer. The bucket test shows me losing about 1/2 inch per day. While I'm trying to locate...

Well, maybe it is me. The first motor died the first summer we opened the pool (existing pool on a house we bought). It might have been as old as 8 years, not sure. So I replaced the motor. At that point I knew very little about them, and had no idea about the shaft seal. Just bolted the...

I've just had a new motor installed on my Superpump, a 1hp. This is the 5th motor in 6 years. With this one, I decided I would have it installed rather than doing it myself, trying to rule out ME as the failure point. The problems we've had with them have pretty much always been that they get...