Quote Originally Posted by matt4x4 View Post
I'd be looking for the leak hole first, even if it takes a whole day in the pool - beats lugging dirt to the flower beds!
I tried all last season, i spent hours and hours, tried dye, tried a mask and snorkel, i only found a really small one. Fixed and this year again, after a month of closing the pool i had lost a foot of water. I wanted to find the leak, but i called 3 or 4 pool guys and all said they only do replacements, small leaks are too hard to find, and do you really want to pay them an hourly rate to search for 8 hours, it is most likely cheaper to just replace the liner they said.

It does sound like they installed a beaded liner as an overlap.
Does the liner have a harder plastic portion welded to it that looks like it would fit into the piece currently clamped over it pinching it down?
There is a harder white strip, about 1/2", at the very top of the liner, that is what is where it folds over the wall and secured by the receiver. From what i see, where it would hang from the receiver, they bottom of the "J" is pretty wide, so i don't see how it could stay in there very well, but i could see it going in there