Put a tachometer to the shaft of the motor and it's right around 3400 rpm and the motor is a 3450 1hp motor.

Blew the line with a hose through a chunk of noodle (works great btw) and had bubbles and water coming up through the drain. Also blew out the skimmer line. No bubbles. No chunks of leaves or debris came from either line.

So we turned the pump back on. I slid a cap over the drain while it was open. I could barely get it off the suction was so great. The pressure dropped all the way down to 5.

When the basket is out the pressure only increases by 1-2 psi. So psi is 13 to 14 with the basket out

Our old pressure was right around 15 now it's around 12 with the basket in.


The basket is becoming swiss cheese as we speak.

The thing is..isolating each line makes no difference in the pressure. Each isolation only drops the pressure by 1-2 psi. Close the drain, open the skimmer - no difference.
And the opposite is true. So it's not like we can even identify a problem in one line and not the other.

Can we just run the pump with the bubble? It's not a huge bubble, as you can kinda see from the photo.

I've included a photo of my hose apparatus..because I need to feel like I'm contributing.




sidenote...as I was uploading this photo my husband was calling our local pool store (they make me violent) to see if they have an impeller in stock (he thinks it's the impeller)..anyhow I was looking down at the computer and I said "lemme guess, he didn't know his a** from a whole in the ground." I looked up to see why he was hissing at me and he was still on the phone. oopsie!

I don't normally speak that way. I swear