Finally ready to fill this thing

[smuth10]

I capped off the spiro and isolated the manifold and purged one loop at a time and then purged the entire system after this. The sprio was the problem drawing air into the system. It took an hour and a half, but all of the air is out. Unfortunately that did not solve my problem. I ran my pump by itself afterwards and as soon as I turned on the hwh it was reading .3gpm and would not turn on. If I restart it the hwh will turn on, but it only take a few minutes for it to go back down and shut off. I changed the psi to 25 and this did not help. The pump was working fine the first two days so I am not sure if i damaged something or what, but at this point I think I need someone to look at it for me. Does anyone know of someone in the SE Michigan area?

 

[2000xpsd]

Any thing in the filter?

 

[smuth10]

I cleaned the filter and it starts up fine, but it had always done that after I cleaned the filter. Starts up around 1.7-1.8 gpm and then withing a couple of minutes the vibration starts and it slowly goes down to .4 and shuts down. Is it possible the pump is not the right size or that the filter is the problem?. The pump says it does 0-17 gpm. Can I take the filter out at this point and just put in a plug to see if that helps?

 

[2000xpsd]

You could pop that filter off, should just be a tang that it pops on so you could pop it off and put the plug back in to try it. But that's a lot of flow loss...you sure all that valves are open?? Just making sure...
That looks like a 15-58 pump??? Head pressure should be ok for that pump but for the hell of it try lowering the system pressure try 5psi and see.
...check all you valves tho, on the manifold too