Man, I owe you a case of beer. You just solved my problem. I have now tried 3 times to make my new pump play nice with my intex system, and right now it's just dripping. The key, for me, was to use the 1 1/2 to 1 1/4 bushing with the original screw, that's just genius if you ask me, if I knew where you lived, I would ship beer to you.
converting to PVC to try to increase water flow. Seems like the reducer takes you back to 1 1/4" defeating my purpose. Any other way to connect my 1 1/2" pipe to my pump?
This is the size of the Intex pumps and filters, I’ve run on this adaptation for years, 2-speed Hayward pump into my Intex sand filter, flows plenty of water, no issue at all using the 1-1/4” adapter to make the PVC connection at the filter. Good luck.
You would look where they sell the white PVC pipe fittings, or sometimes with gray PVC conduit fittings. I will look and see if I have any in the garage and look for the part number
There are multiple ways to make this connection, but I find this one I use to be the best, there are a couple aftermarket adapters that are poorly made. Either find a used Intex hose on eBay to harvest the 40mm nuts, or buy a new replacement on Amazon amzn.to/3J5WsFQ
