Installing Polaris 180 Pool Cleaner Bearings

Video Transcript

"ALLYN CHRISTOPHER: All right. It's turbine time. Here's our old guy right over here and while we're replacing em, I'm going to show you a few things about it. This is one of the reasons why you might try to replace this one is that that head to head, all these years have angled, sharpened, and warped the barrel--or excuse me, the sprockets on here and now this actually engages with the plastic wheels so it doesn't take a lot for this, if it's warped, to start chewing up the teeth on the other side of them, all right? This is one of the reasons why we're taking them out over here into these turbine bearings, and I can guarantee you these have been replaced at least once, twice or three times; they're weak and warped on the inside. One of the ways to do it is to put it on and just sort of spin it around. Yeah, it sounds a little bit weak and you hear the bearings shaking a little bit, but good thing is we got a brand new one right here. Again, two--warning if you're doing this, do not take the plastic off. It's not a shipping protector or anything like that, it actually is a spacer. You're going to find one on both sides, just leave them on there. It shouldn't be hard to remember that because actually they come with the turbine bearings already assembled out of the box. I took mine off for demonstration purposes only, so I'm going to set it out here. If you do take them off, the company logo goes to the outside and we've got our frame right in here. They're not hard to put in backwards, it just won't fit, and we're going to set this in, put in the cradle in right there, excellent. I'm going to set the four screws in place, right there and now, you got a brand new turbine."