stripped diverter valve : repair vs replacement. updated for air-leak fix.

[seraph]

Hi,

hope everyone enjoy the long weekend.

Recently my 2-speed pump is very slow to prime under low-speed. sometimes I have to turn on high-speed for priming, then switch to low speed after priming.

I lubed the o-ring in basket, but nothing much changed.

Later I opened diverted valve but couldn't locate the o-ring(now I knew!). Worse, I made a mistake using drill when putting screws back, which broke the valve like below.

Question:
- can I fix this using some crazy glue?
- if valve has to be replaced, there is no much room for coupling etc. please refer to the dimension. Any option I can choose for such tight room?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

 

[mknauss]

Stripped Valve Actuator Screws

Just wondering if anyone has had any success repairing a stripped screw Jandy valves. I've been chasing down a suction leak and found that two of the screws are stripped. In order to replace the entire valve, I would need to replace quite a few pieces from the original install which I would...

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Get a rebuild kit for the valve too.

 

[seraph]

thank you! I'll try with eproxy and check the o-ring as well.

 

[seraph]

To locate the air leak, I tried a few approached over union, valve etc, but couldn't find anything.
Suddenly I realized whenever I turned off the pump, there is tiny water stream burst out of somewhere.

Then I tried a few times and finally located the location where water came out, it is the broken strainer lid.
I ordered a new one, and temporarily applied some eproxy resin, then it worked like magic.

before eproxy application.


broken lid.

after eproxy application.