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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: countryboy on July 11, 2005, 03:17:08 pm

Title: Pump Seal
Post by: countryboy on July 11, 2005, 03:17:08 pm

What will cause a Pump seal to fail? water chemistry is in the limits. There is a white crust around the seal and in the pan under the pump. Its an itermiten leak.

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: Spatech_tuo on July 11, 2005, 04:14:48 pm

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What will cause a Pump seal to fail? water chemistry is in the limits. There is a white crust around the seal and in the pan under the pump. Its an itermiten leak.

How old is it?

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: SDguy on July 11, 2005, 04:20:03 pm

The white stuff is probably minerals (calcium). That would help make it brittle and thus causing it to leak. Make sure your using a water softenner or some type of scale control in the water.

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: J._McD on July 11, 2005, 05:33:27 pm

several things will cause a pump seal to leak.  1 = Friction, running the pump for a period of time without water, such as an air lock creats heat by friction.  2 = water chemistry and acidic chemicals.

Should you discover a pump seal leak it is less than a $100 repair, if neglected it becomes a $500 repair.

The white salts are residual chemicals from the water the leaked through and evaporated leaving the chemical and mineral content behind as evidence.

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: Chas on July 11, 2005, 05:58:42 pm

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several things will cause a pump seal to leak.  1 = Friction, running the pump for a period of time without water, such as an air lock creats heat by friction.  2 = water chemistry and acidic chemicals.

Should you discover a pump seal leak it is less than a $100 repair, if neglected it becomes a $500 repair.

The white salts are residual chemicals from the water the leaked through and evaporated leaving the chemical and mineral content behind as evidence.

I agree.

Most common cause of this failure is low pH or keeping a floating feeder in the skimmer.

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: countryboy on July 12, 2005, 06:52:32 am

PH, Alk are all in the limits, no floater, Hardness is where is should be. The tube is a year old. Never ran with out water or bleeding system first. Maybe just a bad seal from factory?

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: HotTubMan on July 12, 2005, 09:43:35 am

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PH, Alk are all in the limits, no floater, Hardness is where is should be. The tube is a year old. Never ran with out water or bleeding system first. Maybe just a bad seal from factory?

Very possible. Get it fixed before you corrode the bearings or worse.

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: countryboy on July 12, 2005, 11:02:36 am

Already fixed, they installed a new pump not just the seal.

Title: Re: Pump Seal
Post by: jsimo7 on July 12, 2005, 11:28:43 am

Good deal that is is fixed, Replacing the entire pump is good for you to insure no problems later because of this defect