New home -1st time pool owner - Everything worked until a tree fell in it

Hello all,

New to the forum here in central FL and new to pools. Been searching everywhere and am stuck. Here is the story. Bought new house with an inground vinyl pool with very old leaking pool liner. I've since replaced the pool liner. While my pool was being worked on, I updated my electrical panel where my electrician subsequently turned all the breakers on (i had the pool pump one off) let my pool pump for a whole day with no water and it died/burned out, etc. It was probably time anyways as the motor was rusted out on the bottom.

Anyways, a million dollars later, I have my new pool filled up and new motor to work blah blah blah. I used it for about 2 weeks until Tropical Storm Debby dropped a mega oak tree branch in it. Long story short I chopped the tree up tried to clean as much debri out of the pool as possible (so far no rips in the liner - it was close).

After trying to scoop up the debris with a net, I hooked up my shark? vacuum to get the rest. I must have clogged the drain up so i thought because pool pumpy no worky.

I've tried filling it with a hose to prime it as i've done in the past. I wait until the thing starts overflowing, screw the lid on and hit the on button and within a few minutes, im good. Now i can just fill the lines continuously and it never overflows? It just keeps filling and filling and just comes out of the skimmer or main drain.

I bought a drain jet to blast out whatever debri was in there and nothing comes out. I've dove down with to feel water coming out of main drain while blasting that line so i dont think its blocked? Same with skimmer - water comes right out.

I replaced pump basket O-ring, tried removing the skimmer/main drain line and shoving water in there. nothing.

I can not get the pool pump to prime and im thinking I have a major air leak in a pipe somewhere. Any suggestions?

Wow, you're having awful luck!!

Hopefully one of the equipment gurus will be by shortly to help give you some useful suggestions. I just wanted to let you know your thread is not being ignored--they just haven't logged on and seen it yet!

Welcome to the forum!!

Sorry your post & membership got lost in the crush; not sure if you still need help, but your membership has been upgraded. -ben