Dart motor bearings

[spamn]

I purchased a used Dart pump for cheap and needed to just throw in a new impeller and seals. I ordered the parts from Reeflo and rebuilt the pump. Since the pump sat so long and had blown seals, it was seized up. I simply used some turbine oil and manually rotated the impeller the free it. Alls good to this point. I hooked up the pump to leak test my tank and found the pump to be very loud. I ripped the pump apart to find that it still makes the noise with the impeller and all other parts off of the motor.

To me this means blown motor bearings. Does this sound like a decent assumption? I contacted Reeflo yesterday and they informed me that for $100 they would replace the bearings on the motor. Or for $55 they would ship me the bearings. Does anyone have experience with anything like this? I bought a used pump to go easy on the wallet and slowly the cost is adding up. I'm half tempted to just buy a brand new one for $300 so that maybe I can actuallu have this tank up by the end of the year.

 

[spamn]

Has anyone repaired motor bearings before on a Reeflo pump? i haven't ripped the motor open yet so I'm not too sure what I'm facing. Hoping it doesn't require anything special.

 

[JagerEinheit]

there are several people in the DIY section with large tanks (or the large tank forum) that have had their pumps fixed due to worn out bearings. I believe one guy took his to a repair shop and had his bearings swapped there (zachtos i think). may be worth checking into.
if you are not comfortable with that, the 100 bucks from reeflo isnt a bad deal, you at least know if there was any issues their customer service could help you since they did the work.

either way spending money now to fix the bearings and having new seals etc means you have all but a new pump now, and once fixed if run correctly darts are very dependable.

gl and hth