Hi,
I recently moved to a house that has a nice oasis shaped gunite pool/spa, the pool seems to be installed in 2002 and all equipment are original except the heater that was dead and I replaced it with Pentair MasterTemp 400.
A few weeks before closing my pool in Dec , the main pump started to make a screeching noise that seemed to be from bearings. It's an old AO Smith from 2001 the plate says model 177451-3 but the HP and SF are blank,see the photo. There is another label on top of the pump that reads 2HP 1.1SF.
The pool plumbing is kind of weird. The pump runs both the pool (26000 gallons) and Spa (600 gallons), and has a Jandy valve right after the pump before the DE filter that can divert some of the water to pressure side cleaner (the pool controller clean button runs the pump and turn the jandy valve 30 degree to divert some of water to a pressure side pipe which I never used).
There is also another separed old pump (AO Smith 177449-03) that runs the waterfall. That pump has no noise and runs well.
What kind of pump do you recommend for replacement of the noisy pump? Should I just replace the motor or the whole pump?
Also, I am thinking of upgrading the old equipment one by one. Like get variable speed pump but I would then need to upgrade my CP-3800 controller.
Also, right now the pool heater doesn't have a bypass/check valve, should I worry about damaging the heater when opening the pool in the Spring with unbalanced water?
For pool cleaning I use the suction side Zodiac MX8 but I have to manually coonect it to a skimmer. Should I switch to a pressure side solution instead, or go with standalone robatic cleaners?
Sorry for all the questions.
I recently moved to a house that has a nice oasis shaped gunite pool/spa, the pool seems to be installed in 2002 and all equipment are original except the heater that was dead and I replaced it with Pentair MasterTemp 400.
A few weeks before closing my pool in Dec , the main pump started to make a screeching noise that seemed to be from bearings. It's an old AO Smith from 2001 the plate says model 177451-3 but the HP and SF are blank,see the photo. There is another label on top of the pump that reads 2HP 1.1SF.
The pool plumbing is kind of weird. The pump runs both the pool (26000 gallons) and Spa (600 gallons), and has a Jandy valve right after the pump before the DE filter that can divert some of the water to pressure side cleaner (the pool controller clean button runs the pump and turn the jandy valve 30 degree to divert some of water to a pressure side pipe which I never used).
There is also another separed old pump (AO Smith 177449-03) that runs the waterfall. That pump has no noise and runs well.
What kind of pump do you recommend for replacement of the noisy pump? Should I just replace the motor or the whole pump?
Also, I am thinking of upgrading the old equipment one by one. Like get variable speed pump but I would then need to upgrade my CP-3800 controller.
Also, right now the pool heater doesn't have a bypass/check valve, should I worry about damaging the heater when opening the pool in the Spring with unbalanced water?
For pool cleaning I use the suction side Zodiac MX8 but I have to manually coonect it to a skimmer. Should I switch to a pressure side solution instead, or go with standalone robatic cleaners?
Sorry for all the questions.
