Recent content by Wistlo

Option No. 5, digging down to expose more pipe. That did not occur to me, and I think I will do that. Harmless to try, and does not involve the permanent compromises from my ideas (tilting pump, crazy piping, leaky rubber joints). Plus, the slow tilting of the pipe probably created stress...

My 35 year old in-ground pool installation needed a fix on the pump/filter platform. The concrete base had sunk at the end opposite the supply and discharge risers coming out of the ground. This put strain on the Pentair side valve TR60 tank, and eventually one of the valve fittings developed...

Sorry for the delay, just saw this. As I recall (it's been awhile, 2013), the impeller was deformed, slightly warped by overheating. One don't want any deformations in spinning components as that will wreak havoc on bearings and seals (and make noise, too), and if the impeller disintegrates...

Been there, done that with a Hayward Super II The teflon slip ring and the impeller were damaged by overheating, but nothing else seemed affected. This happened several years ago and the pump has been running trouble free since.

My Pentair TR-60 Triton II that dates back to at least 1995 (I took ownership in 1997) has developed a pinhole leak in one of the bulkhead fittings. Originally I thought the bulkhead fittings (where the multi-valve delivery and returns are connected) were integral to the tank. Then I...