Pump Prime Pool Spa Repair Video
Kung Fu Maintenance demonstrates how to fix a swimming pool or spa pump with low to no pressure or a pump that will not prime. Buy The Kung Fu Maintenance E Book Here http://www.amazon.com/Kung-Fu-Maintenance-ebook/dp/B007KQFI3Q/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1379045417&sr=8-1&keywords=Kung+Fu+Maintenance http://KungFuMaintenance.Com http://Blog.KungFuMaintenance.Com http://Arcade.KungFuMaintenance.Com http://VGBlog.KungFuMaintenance.Com http://TheMaintenanceEar.KungFuMaintenance.Com So I got my pool here, and the pressure is really weak. You can see the PSI is down to like 3 pounds. We’ll have to see how low the water is. So I’m going to open the filter pump basket and take a look at what we got going on here. First, I’m going to come over here and turn the water off. There we go. Now, I can actually hear it down there. It didn’t sound too good. Just going to take a look inside the pump basket right here and see what we got. I use my Billy club screwdriver. Oh yeah, it’s packed. It could be worse. Got this stuff, clear all this out. Now what we want to do is feel down there in the pump basket. Check the impeller back here. Oh yeah, I can feel all kinds of debris inside there. So I think that’s what’s keeping our pump from pushing water through like it should. Pull all this little stuff out of the impeller itself. It just gets so built-up. All that stuff. It’s keeping the impeller from being able to move the water. See all that there. You can’t really see inside there, you’re just going to do it by feel. Now if I need to… This one, I don’t think I need to, but what I can do is if there’s stuff that I really can’t get out, is just flip the motor on for just a second, and just briefly. And then flip it back off right away. We don’t want to run it dry and just enough to free up the stuff. I’ll do that now. So that way, I can free everything up. Now that it’s stopped, we can get the rest out of there. See, if our filter was clogged, the pressure would’ve been a lot higher. This one is just… The impeller wasn’t able to move the water. There was just too much debris inside, right there. OK, now we got the majority of it out of there. Had some major wind storms yesterday; major wind storm today. Palm Springs. It’s just blowing the dirt right across the highway. I have to drive right through it. I saw a pretty major windstorm last year, might have seen some of the footage on that. This is just what happens after a wind storm. The pump filter baskets get filled up, and then a little bit of debris gets by. OK. So now, I’ll put our lid back on. Tighten it down there, about ready to fire it up. You can hear the sound difference already. Go ahead and purge the air out from here. Now the pressure is… It’s showing 8 pounds. Now, that’s much better. Nice. So that’s all it was, it was just the debris down there. We’re good to go. Now, our pressure is showing more where it should be. Good to go. The impeller was just clogged. All fixed.