Recent content by thefreshpocket

Okay, so I reassembled the pump with the tape removed, because some water flow is better than none, and I didn't want to risk the rest of the tape coming loose and gumming up the pump. Lo and behold, I'm still seeing 15 PSI at the filter gauge. The only thing I can think of is maybe the little...

My tape repair didn't hold very long. The high-pressure hose blew off of my filter last night (despite being double clamped) so I've replaced it with a new high pressure hose that has screw-on connectors on both sides. (Why the original pool installers didn't go that route 15 years ago is...

To close up the gap, I put some Gorilla underwater tape (stuff designed for fixing pool vinyl leaks and the like) on the inside of the pool housing so that it would limit the ability of the water to escape past and not build pressure. I first did five layers, but that ended up being way too...

I have a 24' above ground pool with a Century 193262-20 pump. It was installed back around 2006 or 2007. The pump body housing developed a hairline crack in the bottom of it because I forgot to drain the water out before winter. Last summer, I put some pool tape over the crack to stem the...