Hayward 2-Speed Pump Install | Above Ground Pool | Intex Pump Replacement/Upgrade - YouTube

Today we're swapping out this Intex pump, we've had it on the pool for six years.

It's time for an upgrade, we're going to swap in a 2-speed pump from Hayward.

We're going to keep the sand filter, we're just going to swap out the pump.

And I'm going to remove the pump from this little pedestal that it sits on.

We're actually going to mount a piece of decking material on top of this

and then we'll sit the new pump on top of it.

We've got the old pump off, I'm going to keep this base plate that locks in with the sand filter

and I retrieved this piece from the old pump

that I'm going to use as a template, it will actually allow me when I cut my piece of all-weather decking...

I'm going to use the holes in this as a template

and I'll be able to screw my new piece of decking into the base plate for the old pump.

ok so we got most of the way through we've just got to flip it around and cut it from the other side.

we've got the new platform with the all-weather decking attached to the old mounting location

here's the new pump kind-of in position

and see down here we've got two speeds, low and high.

I'm going to have to re-plumb the line that's coming out of the skimmer because the intake sits higher

that'll be pretty easy.

So to adapt the Hayward pump to the Intex line I've got this conversion part from from GAME.

It actually converts the 1.5" standard plumbing to the 40mm

which is the INTEX non-standard size.

There's an o-ring on the part that will go down into the pump.

Put some teflon tape in there and we'll use that on this end right here

so that we can use the old flexible pipe between these two.

and then on this end we'll do all 1.5" PVC

So here's our adapter with some teflon tape on there I'm just going to thread that in,

Try and get it super tight.

On the bottom end of it there's actually a o-ring.

I can see the o-ring down there at the bottom, a little teflon tape sneaking out.

That's pretty tight I don't think that's going to leak.

So here you can see I've used that adapter to adapt this flexible INTEX hose

from the pump into the sand filter so that's good to go.

The inside of both of these, the output and the input is threaded for 1.5" plumbing.

So I'm going to thread this in nice and tight I've got some thread tape on there,

should make a nice good seal.

I've heard that these ones can leak a little bit even though they've got a built-in o-ring

(This is why I am not using these unions from Hayward)

I think maybe the Sun beating down on them maybe causes them to distort a little bit and they leak.

so we're just going to keep it simple.

I'm going to come over here, make some measurements for where my shut off comes down

and then I'm going to have an elbow at the bottom.

At the top I'll have just a smooth connector that goes into my flexible pipe.

This is just so that when the pool is moving there's some flex in my plumbing so nothing cracks .

So this is the smooth connector that I'm using to connect my plumbing to that flexible pipe (flexible hose)

I'll leave a link in the description it's a Hayward part.

Last step is I'm going to fasten the pump to this platform

I'm going to drill a couple holes, just two holes diagonally

one here at this corner one on the front left corner.

I'm just going to make a couple marks where I want those holes to be, and then I'll drill them.

We have a nice hole here, and then on this side we've got a hole in this corner over here.

So let's bolt it down!

it's tight enough...

So, I would consider that fully installed

It's now flushed out all the air... just a couple tiny bubbles in there

That is sucking a lot of water!

We're running on the low speed, you hear it's pretty quiet

kind of a nice maintenance level for the pump

just to run nice and easy and just cycle through the water

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