suction leak

I have a 13,000 gallon chlorine in-ground pool built in 2005. All original equipment except for pump which was replace a few years ago. I noticed that my pool cleaner wasn't moving, so I did the following troubleshooting. 1. Had the filter cleaned and that did not resolve the problem. 2...

I re-plumbed my pool pump area about 3 years ago, and all has been fine - but about a month ago, I started having some air leakage into the skimmer basket throughout the course of the day. I run my variable speed pump at around 1900RPM for 18hrs a day, and then 2400 and 2900 for the rest of the...

3 year old pool: A couple months ago my pump started having trouble staying primed and maintaining pressure, ton of air in basket. I replaced every o-ring on the lids and and valves, ran without filters, plugged pump-drain plugs, but no change. Tried soapy water on all the joints and could...

Hi all. In ground pool owner for about 20 years... I now have a suction side leak (lots of bubbles coming in the filter basket from the return lines). I've tried all of the basic troubleshooting (smoke, shaving cream, lubing the o-rings on connections, new gasket for filter lid, etc...). What's...

Hi, I am having a slow air bubble appear in my filter lid after replacing my pool pump. If the water isn't full and I turn on the pump it never reaches full prime. However, if I backwash it for about 15 seconds, it will fully prime with no bubbles and I can turn off the pump, go back to filter...