Decided to fix it anyway. I was amazed, those underwater patches actually work.
My son-in-law was helping and he said "this aint gonna work". about 30 seconds later he said "this is gonna work!!!"

I ordered a new 1 hp Hayward pump from Amazon for $144.00, I had a 1 1/2 hp in my cart and remembered some sage wisdom from this site about too big a pump. So I came back here and did a search and found bigger was not better, and I switched it to a 1 hp. It originally had a 1 1/2 hp.


Have pumps gotten cheaper? Last fall I couldn't find anything less than about $300.00.

Thanks for the advice.