Pump not holding prime

[CarlD]

My dad used to just put one of those expanding rubber plugs in it, but I use the ball-valve. If you shut it just slightly, you should keep it from sucking air.

[polyvue]

It's holding now—for now—and so I'm just going to pat myself on the back and tell myself 'you rock!'

Ah, heck. We all could have told you that already...

[AnnaK]

Yeah? Thanks!

The pump held pressure after running last night, the pot is still full, there's no air gurgling in the filter. Last evening I brushed some of the debris up to get it suspended in the water; mostly, what we have right now is pollen and tiny little flowers from the chokecherry trees. The pool floor was pretty clean this morning and the skimmer sock was lined with selfsame debris, a good sign that the pump is working as expected.

I did find a couple of water leaks around the pot. One is coming from the intake connection, the other seems to be related to the pot itself. It has ridges, best I can describe them, as part of its construction, and there's some water beading under one of them. I'm going to need a mirror to take a better look at that. Neither leak is a drip; both of them just sort of bead up when I wipe the water off.

Since things are holding for now I'm going to wait until the weekend to inspect this more closely. I've re-installed the weir. It's working fine, not stuck anywhere and moving freely.

Thanks for bearing with me on this.