Plumbing Hack: Attatching pump directly to pool?

Hi,

I've had a rough time getting my pool going this year. Weeks of work and I *finally* have water up to the skimmer, only to discover the sand filter has a big crack in it. Even Recirculate/Bypass to Pool makes for a lot of water spraying.

I've ordered a new filter and multiport valve. But it will arrive on Thursday. Stagnant water in 95ish weather sucks.

How can I securely get the pool to circulate directly through the pump? I stuck the return hose into the pump but it's the tubing end into hard plastic. There's nothing to secure it so it leaks a lot and it looks like it will burst off the moment I walk away. Looked like awesome movement returning into the pool though.

Right now, I have a dinky cover pump in pool "draining" it from one side to the other. I'd say it circulates 1/4 of volume of the pool per day. Better than nothing. But not by much.

Since it's only needed until Thursday I'd make sure to keep the chlorine high, and go ahead and run the submersible pump as you have been. Maybe use a brush to stir the water up some when you add chlorine.

You could probably plumb a line from the pump output to the filter output and remove the filter entirely. Probably not worth the trouble for 4 1/2 days.