Hi Folks I have a question about how to do repairs on a Polaris booster pump and stay dry while doing it. I have a 30K gallon in-ground with a spa that waterfalls into the pool.
Here's the story: My booster pump of 13 year finally died, so I bought a new motor and a replacement seal and o-ring kit.
My plan was to disconnect the fluidics and the power to the pump and bring the old pump unit in my garage where I can mount the new motor in the shade.
So I closed the valves on the main drains and the skimmers and I also plugged the port in the pool that the Polaris unit connects to.
When I disconnected the hose from the pump inlet water came gushing out. I figured it would stop after a while b/c everything was plugged, but it didn't. So I put a wine bottle cork into the hose which slowed the flow enough that I could take the old unit into the garage for the motor replacement work.
I mounted the new motor, brought the pump back out to the equipment pad and got ready to install the rebuilt unit.
Before I did that, I was thinking that the only other possibility of the source of the water flow is the pool return eyeballs, so I plugged those.
Upon taking the wine cork out of the hose to attach it to the pump inlet, again a surge of non-stop water flow.
So the question is: where is this water coming from? Was it coming from the spa (the valve to the spa return was not closed off)?
How does one isolate the Polaris cleaner's fluidics line so that the pump and/or the hose connections can be serviced without losing gallons of water?
Here's the story: My booster pump of 13 year finally died, so I bought a new motor and a replacement seal and o-ring kit.
My plan was to disconnect the fluidics and the power to the pump and bring the old pump unit in my garage where I can mount the new motor in the shade.
So I closed the valves on the main drains and the skimmers and I also plugged the port in the pool that the Polaris unit connects to.
When I disconnected the hose from the pump inlet water came gushing out. I figured it would stop after a while b/c everything was plugged, but it didn't. So I put a wine bottle cork into the hose which slowed the flow enough that I could take the old unit into the garage for the motor replacement work.
I mounted the new motor, brought the pump back out to the equipment pad and got ready to install the rebuilt unit.
Before I did that, I was thinking that the only other possibility of the source of the water flow is the pool return eyeballs, so I plugged those.
Upon taking the wine cork out of the hose to attach it to the pump inlet, again a surge of non-stop water flow.
So the question is: where is this water coming from? Was it coming from the spa (the valve to the spa return was not closed off)?
How does one isolate the Polaris cleaner's fluidics line so that the pump and/or the hose connections can be serviced without losing gallons of water?
