Brand new out of the box Filter System was installed last week along with brand new Jacuzzi pump. [Important to note: both were installed by a plumber who had never installed a pool pump system. In the area where I live [remote mountain town in Northern California] there is no certified pool service that will come this far to do pool maintenance. I do everything myself beyond installation.] The filter system replaced a very similar filter so I am very familiar with the cleaning, O-Ring lubing, air-release, water draining stuff.] When the plumber installed the filter system, he did NOT take about the tank assembly. I did question him about whether we should inspect the O-Ring and it was his belief that it came factory-direct with the O-Ring in place. Everything started up fine. Got prime, had great intake and output at the pool. Several days later, I get suspicious because the water does not seem much cleaner. There was no rise in PSI...it was still zero. The pool was not terribly filthy. I had netted and run my pool sweep before start-up and got it very clean from debris. The winter cover does a great job of keeping stuff out. But I still wondered why the clarity wasn't getting better. Shocked the pool, too.
I began to wonder about the O-Ring. Here's where my problem begins. I turned off the pump and took apart the Filter System. No O-Ring! At first I thought it was a separate part so I inspected the packing box. Nothing. I called Leslie's since I'd purchased it from them. They had an O-Ring in stock at my local store. Two Hours AWAY! Guy on the phone said before you hop in your truck, see if it slipped into the tank. The O-Ring had slipped into the tank! So as I have done many, many times before, I reseated the O-Ring after lubing with a silicone based lube and gave the cartridges a quick spray [they had some gunk in the bases] and replaced them seating them in the base manifold and putting the top manifold in place. Little squirter tube was positioned correctly in the middle. So far so good. I've done this alot with my old filter so I wasn't worried. LOL
I lifted the filter lid into place and it just didn't seem to sit nicely on the drum. Kind of floated. Was something preventing it from firmly sitting on the lower drum? Took it off and, whoops, the O-Ring had jumped back into the tank! Put it back on and started over. Lid still not fitting. Oh well, it probably will come together with the Filter clamp and spring barrel. Or so I thought.
I struggled for two days to get the top to clamp to the bottom. Meanwhile the O-Ring slipped countless times thus I had to stop and reseat the thing countless times. The clamp would not bring the top flange down to the bottom flange. The clamp kept falling off because I could not press down on the lid to get the flanges closer together. When I say two days, I took a lot of breaks. It was super frustrating as this was a fairly easy task with my old filter system.
I called Jacuzzi to see if they had advice. They said to seat the O-Ring and leave it for a couple of days to see if it would tighten up. Meanwhile, the temperatures are in the high80s and 90s and I'm worried about not running the pump.
I do as they suggested and go back into the pool shed to start over. Couldn't do it. Almost gave myself heatstroke.
I finally groveled and called my young electrician neighbor figuring my hands aren't strong enough to bring the ends of the clamp together to get the spring barrel on.
Poor guy. I nearly killed him. Took us 45 minutes to finally get it done [after the O-Ring popping off multiple times].
Is there an easier way? Anyone have one of these beasts? Please tell me there is something wrong and that I can fix it and not do this everytime I need to clean the filters? Thanks.
I began to wonder about the O-Ring. Here's where my problem begins. I turned off the pump and took apart the Filter System. No O-Ring! At first I thought it was a separate part so I inspected the packing box. Nothing. I called Leslie's since I'd purchased it from them. They had an O-Ring in stock at my local store. Two Hours AWAY! Guy on the phone said before you hop in your truck, see if it slipped into the tank. The O-Ring had slipped into the tank! So as I have done many, many times before, I reseated the O-Ring after lubing with a silicone based lube and gave the cartridges a quick spray [they had some gunk in the bases] and replaced them seating them in the base manifold and putting the top manifold in place. Little squirter tube was positioned correctly in the middle. So far so good. I've done this alot with my old filter so I wasn't worried. LOL
I lifted the filter lid into place and it just didn't seem to sit nicely on the drum. Kind of floated. Was something preventing it from firmly sitting on the lower drum? Took it off and, whoops, the O-Ring had jumped back into the tank! Put it back on and started over. Lid still not fitting. Oh well, it probably will come together with the Filter clamp and spring barrel. Or so I thought.
I struggled for two days to get the top to clamp to the bottom. Meanwhile the O-Ring slipped countless times thus I had to stop and reseat the thing countless times. The clamp would not bring the top flange down to the bottom flange. The clamp kept falling off because I could not press down on the lid to get the flanges closer together. When I say two days, I took a lot of breaks. It was super frustrating as this was a fairly easy task with my old filter system.
I called Jacuzzi to see if they had advice. They said to seat the O-Ring and leave it for a couple of days to see if it would tighten up. Meanwhile, the temperatures are in the high80s and 90s and I'm worried about not running the pump.
I do as they suggested and go back into the pool shed to start over. Couldn't do it. Almost gave myself heatstroke.
I finally groveled and called my young electrician neighbor figuring my hands aren't strong enough to bring the ends of the clamp together to get the spring barrel on.
Poor guy. I nearly killed him. Took us 45 minutes to finally get it done [after the O-Ring popping off multiple times].
Is there an easier way? Anyone have one of these beasts? Please tell me there is something wrong and that I can fix it and not do this everytime I need to clean the filters? Thanks.
