Thank you so much! Mission accomplished. :-) Still not sure if my sand is gunky, but from what I've read it shouldn't be. I've always used Ben's method and have only had the sand for 3 years now, but it doesn't seem to be cleaning as affectively this year. My water is cloudy. Now that the pressure gauge problem is fixed. I will focus on other things. Thanks again for the obvious help. I just know that an once of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure in dealing with these kinds of things. Didn't want to do something stupid and pay out the wahoo for it later.

Thanks again for all the help!
BB