Yep, I opened the valve to pull from the side port and skimmer both and pumped it to 3000 and the air went away. So it works and it's not the pump, pretty sure. I'll have to re-do the lube on the o-rings when I get home.sigh.............well at least it is moving water so..............
Correct.the unions heading out of the pump or after it were loose it would result in leaking and not air in the system, correct?
I will check. It was raining yesterday so I couldn't see if it had a leak then. (By hair-and-lint pot do you mean the area where the impeller is?) I did use silicone lubricant on both plugs when I put them back in. I think I have some new o-rings I can put on them, too.New valves should not need to be opened or sealed for many years. Be sure that the pump drain plug in the hair-and-lint pot is not leaking.
With the brain trust here at TFP I am sure someone will have some ideas that might work!Would be nice to know how to fix it, but - one step at a time.
It IS TRUTH........but I can't explain it. mas985 knows the answer but I have forgotten it three times now!. I've accepted this as TRUTH.
I have a 3000 rpm run for an hour or so to help with skimming, and then 2000 for a couple of hours, then 1200 for the rest of the day. I push the 2000 up to the remainder (to override the 1200) when I'm pushing the temp in the pool up as 1200 is too slow for my heater water switch.Soooooo, I have been chasing a suction side leak for 2+ months. Superflo pump. Side comment from @Jimrahbe on a random thread, along with a @Newdude comment on another thread, led me to the conclusion that, at low speed, a VSP pump will, for whatever reason, grow a bubble in the pump due to the pressure at low levels running the VSP slow. I've accepted this as TRUTH. I set up my superflo to run one of the three cycles at 3000rpm for 15 minutes once a day to eliminate the silver dollar pancake size bubble that has formed over the previous 23 hrs.
This has worked like magic. I left Sunday night for out of town. Came back tonight and pancake was there, cleared at 8pm when I have 3000rpm setup to run.
I would recommend, setup cycle 1 for 3000rpm for 15 minutes, cycle two and three for 1200-1600rpm for the remainder of the 24 hr cycle. Let it run for 24 hours. If the pump doesn't lose prime in 24hrs, accept, like me, that the pump lid allows a bit of air over time to enter the basket area.