Hayward Pool Filter ????

[Oldtom]

I have an 18 year old Hayward Pool Filter. (3/4 HP 110V ) Today, the motor made a metallic death screech, smoke came out of the front bearing, and the breaker tripped. Let it cool off, reset breaker, and restarted. It runs fine except very noisy, I assume the front bearing is trashed, as that is where the smoke was coming from.

Is it worth a bearing swap on an 18 year old motor? A new motor is $160 and is most likely " typical offshore quality " that will last 5 years or so. I have put new bearings in a hot tub motor when no replacement was available.

Thanks in advance for any advice

 

[Rat407]

Just get a new motor. Here where I live there is a place that rebuilds electric motors and if it is worth rebuilding they will and the cost is less than a new one. Or some times it isn't and they have rebuilt ones on the shelf for less, which I have purchased and have had no issues with.

 

[Fawteen]

I'd personally stick with Hayward-their quality is great.

Our first Hayward finally started getting noisy at about 20 years old, I just replaced it with another superpump last year. We use our pool 10 or 11 months/year, and don't ever shut it down during the off month or two, so it sees roughly 8-9 hours of use each day, 365 days/year. That's over 65,000 hours of use.

You won't get a Hayward for $160 though.

Our booster pump is also a Hayward and it's still running great after 20 years.

 

[Rolla07]

If you can swap the bearing out yourself do it. Will cost fraction of cost to swap it out than spend 160...

I paid 30$ for a new bearing for a hot tub pump and a replacement was 2 bills..

 

[4WD]

I got a Hayward 1 HP pump/ motor for $360