Install Pods on Pool Cleaners

Video Transcript

"Alright, with the A frame firmly in place, we're now ready to put its' pods on, a pretty straightforward procedure. These are the pods here, they are actually labeled "left" and "right", because you don't want it to go on the wrong foot there, and so conveniently is the bottom. You can see right inside of here, it does say "left" or "right", but, when it comes right down to it, it's very hard to put them on the wrong side. Alright, so installing the pods you're going to notice, too, is that they are flattened on one side on both of them to match up, and you simply just push them into place. You don't have to push too hard because the screws will help set them home. So, I'm going to put these right in here, now they're in place. We're going to take the screws that come with them, or replace the old ones if we were just checking it out. You do want to make sure that it does have the washers on them, and you do want to make sure that the washer is shiny side out, and flat side in, alright, shiny out, dull in, and one is a little rounded and flat, it's supposed to be that way so it really does give it a good grab. So, I'm going to put that on here, and I'm going to show you a little secret, because these are quarter inch drivers it needs to put that on, and most quarter inch drivers are a little bit too big to slip into there, you've got to make sure you get the right one. Now here's the secret, turns out that these guys, which almost all of us have, to quickly change the heads, also make a nice skinny quarter inch driver. So again with it set on our lowest torque setting, we're going to put it in place here, holding it up. There it is! One more time, right into the assembly, alright, now you're setting in in. To completely finish the pods, you also have to put the wings on. Again, wings are keyed "left" and "right", these are different as far as how they're spaced before and after, and we're double checking "L" to "L", and, in this case here, we're going to go around, over and down. So it's around the little retaining hub, over the little hooks, and down. Then, the retaining plug, this does two things. One, it protects the screw head from getting corroded, and also keeps it in place. I like to put it on there, give it a little love tap with the back end of the screwdriver, and just, to reiterate, around, over and down, plug the hole, love tap, and now, we pretty much have a completely assembled bottom half."