Hi everyone. I know this will be the 1 millionth question about a suspected air leak, so I apologize and appreciate any assistance!
I run my pump each night, and go out and manually shut it off each morning. Air is getting in the system and I can see little bubbles swirling around in the pump basket while running. If I bleed all the air out of the filter and shut the pump off, it retains prime just fine and I can fire it back up at night 12 hours later, no issue. If I don't bleed the air, water rushes out of the pump and down the return line, which is sucky. It takes about a full minute to bleed the air out of the filter.
Air in the pump basket sounds like it should 100% be a suction side leak. The odd thing is, I replaced my cartridge filters with brand new ones and that's when the problem started. It sounds like it can't be a filter related issue, but that's the only change that took place before this started happening.
I replaced/lubed o-rings in my not-Jandy-brand suction-side valve. The only other valve is on the pressure side. I've tried the running water and shaving cream tricks on the pump lid, drain plug, and inlet plumbing. Re-lubed the pump lid o-ring a couple of times and that's not doing the trick either. I'm about to try ordering a new pump lid and o-ring...Had the guy who installed my equipment look and he's got his mind on retirement and says everything looks good....grr.
Worth noting, I have an elevated spa and it has one of those air inlet pipes above ground near the valves that I can turn to let in air and make desirable bubbles in the spa. However, if I close that bad boy all the way, and draw water only from the pool skimmer (water level is plenty high) I still get some air. It takes pretty much all night to accumulate the amount I'm talking about to result in the 60 second air bleed in the morning. If I run the pump and check back in like an hour, the air bleed shoots water within a second or two.
Is there any circumstance in which swapping out new cartridge filters could cause this? I keep coming back to the fact that this issue didn't exist before putting the new ones in.
I run my pump each night, and go out and manually shut it off each morning. Air is getting in the system and I can see little bubbles swirling around in the pump basket while running. If I bleed all the air out of the filter and shut the pump off, it retains prime just fine and I can fire it back up at night 12 hours later, no issue. If I don't bleed the air, water rushes out of the pump and down the return line, which is sucky. It takes about a full minute to bleed the air out of the filter.
Air in the pump basket sounds like it should 100% be a suction side leak. The odd thing is, I replaced my cartridge filters with brand new ones and that's when the problem started. It sounds like it can't be a filter related issue, but that's the only change that took place before this started happening.
I replaced/lubed o-rings in my not-Jandy-brand suction-side valve. The only other valve is on the pressure side. I've tried the running water and shaving cream tricks on the pump lid, drain plug, and inlet plumbing. Re-lubed the pump lid o-ring a couple of times and that's not doing the trick either. I'm about to try ordering a new pump lid and o-ring...Had the guy who installed my equipment look and he's got his mind on retirement and says everything looks good....grr.
Worth noting, I have an elevated spa and it has one of those air inlet pipes above ground near the valves that I can turn to let in air and make desirable bubbles in the spa. However, if I close that bad boy all the way, and draw water only from the pool skimmer (water level is plenty high) I still get some air. It takes pretty much all night to accumulate the amount I'm talking about to result in the 60 second air bleed in the morning. If I run the pump and check back in like an hour, the air bleed shoots water within a second or two.
Is there any circumstance in which swapping out new cartridge filters could cause this? I keep coming back to the fact that this issue didn't exist before putting the new ones in.
