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Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 7:14am

Author: jonathanteller

o ring is slipping out at pump housing when pump shuts off

When the pump turns off there appears to be a tremendous back pressure that bumps the o ring out of its seat in the pump housing. Water spurts out for 6 seconds . Then the pump can't push water on the next start up untill I replace the oring back into its track.I have a 2 HP pool pump and a lake . I have plenty of pressure and flow. I designed the pump part of this system (first time doing so) so it may have some obvious errors. Is there some kind of devise to absorb this backpressure before the...