- Nov 27, 2019
- 28
- Pool Size
- 8500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-30
Hi all,
I’m starting to think we finally bought a lemon. We bought this house 6 months ago and the pool has 2 Whisperflos with 1.5 HP century motors. I’m sure they’ve been rebuilt before and when we moved in we we had a little accident and the pool sucked in a little floatie so I rebuilt one again with a new impeller, seals, and bearings. Then the cleaner pump got loud is o did the same thing to it. They were both quiet for a little bit. About a month ago we noticed the filter pump was leaking a little and was louder than the cleaner pump. So I swapped them. Cool, it was quiet for about 3 weeks. Now the filter pump is louder than ever. I removed it from the pump and it’s the motor again.
What gives? I’m admittedly buying cheap bearing from Amazon but they seemed ok to me.
Thoughts? Please advise before I go off the deep end and buy all new equipment that I can’t afford. We just had the pool resurfaced(that’s a whole another story) installed pavers, replaced the gas heater with a gently used one, installed 2 different solar controllers, and just paid for leak detection that is still up in the air.
Thanks in advance,
Lemon Farmer
I’m starting to think we finally bought a lemon. We bought this house 6 months ago and the pool has 2 Whisperflos with 1.5 HP century motors. I’m sure they’ve been rebuilt before and when we moved in we we had a little accident and the pool sucked in a little floatie so I rebuilt one again with a new impeller, seals, and bearings. Then the cleaner pump got loud is o did the same thing to it. They were both quiet for a little bit. About a month ago we noticed the filter pump was leaking a little and was louder than the cleaner pump. So I swapped them. Cool, it was quiet for about 3 weeks. Now the filter pump is louder than ever. I removed it from the pump and it’s the motor again.
What gives? I’m admittedly buying cheap bearing from Amazon but they seemed ok to me.
Thoughts? Please advise before I go off the deep end and buy all new equipment that I can’t afford. We just had the pool resurfaced(that’s a whole another story) installed pavers, replaced the gas heater with a gently used one, installed 2 different solar controllers, and just paid for leak detection that is still up in the air.
Thanks in advance,
Lemon Farmer
