I am having a major problem with my cartridge filter, it's a Hayward Swimclear 420sq. ft filter. After noticing last week that my pressure was running 32+ psi I thought my filters must have just been very dirty. After cleaning everything out I put the filters back in and started it all back up and it was back to 12 psi like normal and it was all working well. The problem was that after 30 minutes the filter was back up at 23 psi and after an hour it was stuck up at 32 psi again.

After I saw this I turned the system off because it shouldn't be running that high of a pressure (this isn't an in-floor cleaning pool). After taking it all apart again I have seen that the "Bottom Collector Manifold" is cracked. The part # is 17 according to the diagram here: http://www.hydropool.com/cgi-bin/hyd...db/ml=100.html

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I have been having salt system and other pool system issues and I just wanna see if anyone else has seen a problem like this. Does the cracked manifold cause an increase in pressure like this?