Hayward Impeller Questions

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KBoy420

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Jul 17, 2020
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Eastern PA
Hi all. Have a Hayward PowerFlow Matrix, manufactured 2020. At the end of last season, it seemed to be running louder than usual. Worked fine until end of season. Decided to do some checking (the mounting base was totally rusted - though I believe that's from skimmer water leaking and setting at the pump base - not a seal issue.

Anyway, I can't get the impeller off no how, and Im also not sure if there's too much resistance on it - doesn't seem to spin easily to me, and there is a slight scraping noise.

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Do you guys think there is more of an issue here or just throw it back together and run it? No one locally services them it seems. Thanks.
 
Definitely not right, it should spin freely. That noise seems like maybe the bearings in the motor are bad. You can't get the impeller off even when locking the motor shaft at the back and using something like a strap wrench?
 
I have a similar setup and am in a similar boat. Ran great all last year. Started up this year and was very loud. My impeller was seized so I dislodged it and it seemed to run fine the last two weeks. Now it's smoking and leaking brown ooze when I start it up so I am looking at a full replacement. The shaft to my impeller was very rusted. I am not sure how to prevent that based on the setup of the motor with the airholes on the sides.
 
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