I took it apart and none of the pieces were cracked or had sand in them. The sand was fairly clean. I took the valve off and brought it to the pool shop. They said the spider gasket was worn but not too bad. The spring is in good shape. They suggested buying a new filter! I can see if something was broken but the filter worked before. The only difference is the sand. I don't want to buy more sand unless the symptoms sound like that could be my issue. I don't get why they suggested the valve is broken. I can see that it spins and gets a decent seal when I had it off.

I also used some Sink N Sweep(I was desperate). It worked great! I could finally see the bottom when I was done vacuuming to waste. I really thought that was it but the next morning after running the filter it was back to cloudy.