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  1. R

    Need help making sense of this plumbing so I can troubleshoot my pump losing prime.

    I've had my house for about 2 years, and started using TFP this year. What a game changer! I have a problem with my pump losing prime. I've suspected a suction side leak for some time underneath a mid-sized spruce tree near the skimmer (intermittent sucking/gurgling sounds), but no real...
  2. Animal827

    Pentair SuperFlo VST Will Not Prime

    I will try to keep this short, but if any additional information, picture, or videos will help, please let me know. I will premise all this that I had a complete renovation of my pool last May 2023. Everything but the hole in the ground was replaced (pipes, skimmers, drains, pump, liner, etc.)...
  3. T

    Pool losing prime when set to waste mode

    Hey everyone, first post here! So I'm a 5 year pool owner, and have gotten along pretty well with DIY mode so far. This last winter was a perfectly catastrophic sequence of events, first identified and fixed a leak in pool, massive numbers of branches and leaves fell during the treepocolypse we...
  4. B

    Pool Pump not priming - Weak Return in Pool Jets

    I’m having difficulties getting my pool pump to prime. It’s a single-speed Waterway motor for my in-ground pool. Following a vacation and subsequent algae bloom, my pump became difficult to prime. I performed the following troubleshooting steps: -Cleaned cartridge filter w/ hose and...
  5. J

    Pool pump/filter issues

    Hey guys, I bought a house with an above ground pool so I’ve been trying to learn everything I can, but I’m having a tough time. I’m fine on chemicals, my water is nice and clear, but these are my issues: 1. Where the hoses connect to the pump and filter, they keep dripping. I’ve tried a few...
  6. C

    Homemade priming adapter and Jandy valve leaking through screw hole in stem!

    Hi folks. Just thought I would share what turned out to be a multi-day PITA on a two year old pool with very hard prime, losing prime over night and an obvious suction air leak. I have 100ft uphill run to the equipment, so spring opening restart is never super fun, but this year, it took me two...
  7. mzuniga

    Weirdest problem

    I experience today one of the most baffling issues in all the months i have had my pool. I always fill the pool from a water feature that connects directly to my irrigation system, so that i control the fill time from my irrigation app. Today for the first time I decided instead to use the...
  8. M

    Whisperflo Pump won't prime

    Hi Everyone! I had the WEP-6 motor on my waterfall pump short out so I replaced it with a Jacuzzi brand motor from Leslie's. I spent most of yesterday switching out the breaker on the pentair control panel and then connecting the electrical. I was scratching my head for hours until I realized...
  9. D

    Pentair Superflow VST reverts to prime in middle of quick clean

    I had a new Pentair Superflow installed end of season last year and noticed that during quick clean modes (vacuuming pool and shocking) the pump runs for a while and at some point mid cycle time faults/fails back to the 4 minute high speed prime. May be doing the same thing during regular...
  10. K

    Pump Not Priming on Opening

    Not sure what I'm missing. I feel like I struggled a bit last year, but eventually got it. But today it's just not happening for some reason. I've followed all the instructions I can find at various places. I've tried with the pool drain, I've tried with the shallow skimmer. I've tried with...
  11. P

    Pump not priming

    My pool pump turns on automatically at 6 AM every morning and runs until 2 PM. I recently replaced my filters and now the pump turns on but does not cycle the water. To get the pump to work I have to go out and turn the Jandy valve to spa drain, this will get water inside the pump basket, I then...
  12. S

    Keeping having to prime. Help!

    Hello, We keeping having to prime our pump to start pulling in water almost every time we turn it on. This just started happening this summer. We have a Hayward sand filter that we installed brand new two years ago. We didn't open the pool last summer, but the summer before that, we only had to...