Like many others, when our power went out lat week the pool froze hard (I couldn't break the ice with a broom handle, it looked about 2 inches thick). It did it quickly in the middle of the night at -2 degrees, so by the time I found it was out and checked the pump, the lid was pushed off and was sitting on about 4" of snow coming up out of the pump.
Today, as we're finally thawed, I checked the pool. I have three things that appear so far to be damaged:
1. A jandy valve is cracked and spews water when I tried to prime the pump.
2. My salt cell is cracked and spews water when I tried to prime the pump
3. The pump won't take prime. I can hear it sucking, and tried pre-priming it with several 5 gal buckets of water, but it still won't prime. I have a suspicion that the pump housing is not sealing to the lid gasket. When the ice pushed the lid off the housing, it broke off a piece of the seating surface, where the gasket meets the pump housing. I'll attach a picture.
My two main questions are:
1. Does this broken housing appear to be bad enough to keep it from priming? I can't tell for sure if it's sucking air or not. And if so, is there a way to repair it or do I need a new housing (or new pump)?
2. The cracked Jandy valve and cracked salt cell. Is there any good way to glue or seal those cracks? Of do I just need to replace them?
Pictures are attached. Thanks
Steve
Today, as we're finally thawed, I checked the pool. I have three things that appear so far to be damaged:
1. A jandy valve is cracked and spews water when I tried to prime the pump.
2. My salt cell is cracked and spews water when I tried to prime the pump
3. The pump won't take prime. I can hear it sucking, and tried pre-priming it with several 5 gal buckets of water, but it still won't prime. I have a suspicion that the pump housing is not sealing to the lid gasket. When the ice pushed the lid off the housing, it broke off a piece of the seating surface, where the gasket meets the pump housing. I'll attach a picture.
My two main questions are:
1. Does this broken housing appear to be bad enough to keep it from priming? I can't tell for sure if it's sucking air or not. And if so, is there a way to repair it or do I need a new housing (or new pump)?
2. The cracked Jandy valve and cracked salt cell. Is there any good way to glue or seal those cracks? Of do I just need to replace them?
Pictures are attached. Thanks
Steve