Replaced my old hydraulic cover motor with the electric motor, retrofit was a breeze, new motor bolted right in. It comes with new bolts and a shaft connector. Zero maintenance compared to the hydraulic setup. I highly recommend this motor.

These motors are ridiculously expensive for what they are but fortunately Pool Supply Unlimited has the best deals by far on them. After 10 years of use, my old motor failed. I did several tests to confirm it was in fact the motor that failed before making an order.

Checking for motor failure:
- Checked the switch had power and green indicator light was on.
Disconnected the motor from the lead wires from the switch in the junction box in the cover box. Wires are White (neutral), Green (ground), Blue (hot for one direction, in), Red (hot for other direction, out).
- Verified I had approximately 120 volts on both the red and blue (might be black) lead wires going to the junction box by connecting my volt meter's red lead to the ground wire and black to the blue, then had someone use the switch. Did the same for the red line.
- I connected a halogen light which draws a lot of power using it's normal cord plugged into a cutoff extension cord spliced into the 3 wires. The cutoff cord I connected to the wires in the junction box by the motor. Blue/black, white/white, green/green, then left the white and green and swapped the blue/black to red/black. Each time I watched to see if the halogen light was as bright as it was on a normal outlet.
After all this, I was confident it was the motor that failed.
It took about a week to arrive. I connected the new motor's wires to the wires in the junction box and ran the switch. The motor ran, reaffirming the old motor was bad and the wiring was still good.

Installing the new motor:
The new motor was different than my old motor. The old one was black with a wire whip that ran through the handle (like the one pictured). The new motor is grey and had a different motor housing. The cord is more like an extension cord than one through flexible conduit like the old one. It also has a black wire instead of blue.

To get the old motor out, let's just say it wouldn't just slide out. On the shaft of the old and new motor are grooves for 2 motor shaft keys. I tried to pry the old motor out but it would not slide out. I wound up disconnecting the torque limiter as well as the bolts holding the motor to the bracket (4) and taking the whole motor with torque limiter out. I used a hack saw to cut the shaft between the big plastic bushing around the motor shaft and the torque limiter. It only took about 10 minutes to cut but note the space between those two items is about the width of the saw blade. Once the torque limiter was free, the motor mount plate was free too. I had to disassemble the torque limiter by removing the two screws used to adjust the torque and disconnecting the connector that is used to connect the torque limiter to the cover. Once apart, I could use a punch to get the last little chunk of the motor shaft out. Cleaned it up, put the torque limiter back together and installed it on the cover shaft (1 bolt) and also a shaft key (1). Greased the shaft and key. Installed the motor plate to the new motor. Wired everything up (it was a different insert for the new wire whip). Also note, black/red, blue/black was the wiring necessary for the switch to be accurate (at least in my case). Then greased the shaft and keys, slid it into the torque limiter. There is a space between the shaft and bracket. The plastic space wasn't needed from my old motor unit but probably fits on the shaft gap should one want to use it. Everything lined up well and it works great.

It does seem a bit slower that the old unit, and sounds different but they spec the same. I was told some of the other motors that replace this have a stainless steel band around the center of the motor unit.

Hope this information helps. It was definitely a learning process for a DIYer.

After talking to gio and confirming they had one of these in stock. Ordered her up and converted my moms pool from the coverstar old style face mount motor to this body mount style with gearbox. A much better system and wiring switch leg makes the electrical easy also!

Replaced my old hydraulic cover motor with the electric motor, retrofit was a breeze, new motor bolted right in. It comes with new bolts and a shaft connector. Zero maintenance compared to the hydraulic setup. I highly recommend this motor.

These motors are ridiculously expensive for what they are but fortunately Pool Supply Unlimited has the best deals by far on them. After 10 years of use, my old motor failed. I did several tests to confirm it was in fact the motor that failed before making an order.

Checking for motor failure:
- Checked the switch had power and green indicator light was on.
Disconnected the motor from the lead wires from the switch in the junction box in the cover box. Wires are White (neutral), Green (ground), Blue (hot for one direction, in), Red (hot for other direction, out).
- Verified I had approximately 120 volts on both the red and blue (might be black) lead wires going to the junction box by connecting my volt meter's red lead to the ground wire and black to the blue, then had someone use the switch. Did the same for the red line.
- I connected a halogen light which draws a lot of power using it's normal cord plugged into a cutoff extension cord spliced into the 3 wires. The cutoff cord I connected to the wires in the junction box by the motor. Blue/black, white/white, green/green, then left the white and green and swapped the blue/black to red/black. Each time I watched to see if the halogen light was as bright as it was on a normal outlet.
After all this, I was confident it was the motor that failed.
It took about a week to arrive. I connected the new motor's wires to the wires in the junction box and ran the switch. The motor ran, reaffirming the old motor was bad and the wiring was still good.

Installing the new motor:
The new motor was different than my old motor. The old one was black with a wire whip that ran through the handle (like the one pictured). The new motor is grey and had a different motor housing. The cord is more like an extension cord than one through flexible conduit like the old one. It also has a black wire instead of blue.

To get the old motor out, let's just say it wouldn't just slide out. On the shaft of the old and new motor are grooves for 2 motor shaft keys. I tried to pry the old motor out but it would not slide out. I wound up disconnecting the torque limiter as well as the bolts holding the motor to the bracket (4) and taking the whole motor with torque limiter out. I used a hack saw to cut the shaft between the big plastic bushing around the motor shaft and the torque limiter. It only took about 10 minutes to cut but note the space between those two items is about the width of the saw blade. Once the torque limiter was free, the motor mount plate was free too. I had to disassemble the torque limiter by removing the two screws used to adjust the torque and disconnecting the connector that is used to connect the torque limiter to the cover. Once apart, I could use a punch to get the last little chunk of the motor shaft out. Cleaned it up, put the torque limiter back together and installed it on the cover shaft (1 bolt) and also a shaft key (1). Greased the shaft and key. Installed the motor plate to the new motor. Wired everything up (it was a different insert for the new wire whip). Also note, black/red, blue/black was the wiring necessary for the switch to be accurate (at least in my case). Then greased the shaft and keys, slid it into the torque limiter. There is a space between the shaft and bracket. The plastic space wasn't needed from my old motor unit but probably fits on the shaft gap should one want to use it. Everything lined up well and it works great.

It does seem a bit slower that the old unit, and sounds different but they spec the same. I was told some of the other motors that replace this have a stainless steel band around the center of the motor unit.

Hope this information helps. It was definitely a learning process for a DIYer.

After talking to gio and confirming they had one of these in stock. Ordered her up and converted my moms pool from the coverstar old style face mount motor to this body mount style with gearbox. A much better system and wiring switch leg makes the electrical easy also!