Installing a Polaris 180 Pool Cleaner Rebuild Kit

Series Summary

In the summertime, no activities are more refreshing than jumping into a clean refreshing swimming pool. Pools have become an almost necessary part of life to the leisure and middle class during the summertime and are a great source of exercise and recreation for any age to enjoy. However, one thing that will destroy the fun meter for the summer is a dirty and disgusting pool. Fortunately, there are plenty of options for pool cleaners available in the marketplace and the experts at ExpertVillage want to do everything they can to inform you of the care, repair, and maintenance of different pool cleaners.

In this free series of swimming pool maintenance videos, our pool cleaning professional will tell you how to repair the Polaris 180 automatic pool cleaner. You will learn how to take apart the cleaner, troubleshoot potential problem parts and then put everything back together. Not sure how to adjust the wheels or the tail float? Learn everything you need to know about the Polaris 180 in this concise video series from Expert Village.

Video Transcript

"ALLYN CHRISTOPHER: This is a Polaris 180. Now, it is a pressure side automatic pool cleaner. Now, the fact that you're watching this video on how to install or rebuild kit to it we're going to assume that you already own one. But this is a great cleaner for picking up large debris around the pool. And what's different than any other pool cleaner is that it uses pressure to do so. Meaning that instead of sucking like you do with a vacuum cleaner it shoots water down in here, through this which creates a Venturi effect and sucks the water straight up, sucks the debris up into a large bag. This one has found its way to my workbench because it's in sad, sad shape. I could show you more about it but the things about it that are broken. So when you go to repair it you've got several options. You can look and identify what the broken pieces are and replace them of course, but in this case there are so many broken pieces that we're opting for the factory rebuild kit. Now they have a tune up kit and sell the parts individually but this one is so profoundly broken, and you're going to see once we get inside of her, that were opting to do a full rebuild. This kit's going to basically replace everything inside of it. In fact it actually comes with a warranty to extend on the new pieces; because you'll see when we break it down there's basically just the frame left. So this particular model, the 180 was the original Polaris, it's actually no longer being manufactured. So if you've got one, you need to bring it back to life; well the factory rebuild kit's the way to do it unless it's time to buy the new modern one."