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Anyone have any ideas on this? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure what you mean by "lip of the vessel" but when we were using the tub it was hard to pinpoint the source but when I pulled the access panel today it seemed to come from the area between the pump and the control pad. Of course there is not much room to see in there but when I looked at a couple of online diagrams explaining how hottubs operate it appeared that the valves connect to a manifold of sorts and then on to each of the jets that it feeds. Not sure if both venturi valves go to the same manifold or they each have there own. The weird thing is that both valves now produce the noise instead of just the one originally. Can anyone explain how the venturi air valve system functions? I guess that as you open the valve the air is sucked in the the water stream just as it hits the jets ... er sumthin

Hi, (hope this is in the right forum) We got a used Dreammaker X-Calibur spa from a friend my in-laws ... can't beat the price! We brought it home, used the tool to remove, clean, and inspect all jets; then set it up and used it quite a bit from Oct 07 to Feb 08. Just before we stopped using it, the side we used most often started making a "whirring/gurgling" noise when we opened the venturi valves (hope that is what they are called); the other side worked fine with no noise and when the noisy one was closed there was no noise. We stopped using it as it got a little warmer and I was going to fix it right away. Fast forward 5 months and woodworking and my motorcycle has earned far more of my free time which is not much anyway with 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 yr old daughters. I would like to get this figured out and have done some net surfing, and looking around in the shell with the panel off ... I'm hoping someone could give some pointers are where to start. I'm pretty handy with many things mechanical, electrical, and plumbing and a little bit in electronics. I had not even realized that the plug had been pulled out and no one knows who did it or when so as you can imagine the water is a little funky ... a slight greenish tint. I plugged it back in and currently it is running to get the temp back up to 100 from 84 during its initial power on cycle. I wasn't sure if I needed to drain it below the jets before taking them apart to check for blockage, air leak, etc. My first inkling was that there is some sort of air leak from one of the fittings on the venturi valve, manifold, or jets. But now the noise is present when using the other side valve as well ... has me wondering if there is trapped air or something else. I know it was not smart for us to neglect the poor thing but that is in the past now. Hopefully we can get it back up and running right soon and will drain and refill and put new chemicals, etc. I guess there may be some sort of flush that needs to be run through it to clean the funk growing in the pump, pipe, etc. Spa information and images provided below ... any assistance is greatly appreciated! 1. Dreammaker X-Calibur, ~2004 2. Plugged into outside GFCI outlet (only thing using outside plug on regular basis) 3. Control box is labeled Balboa LB70 ... couldn't find any info on Google. 4. Topside control is electronic. 5. Pump: Aqua flowmaster 110v model: 03510631-2 ... no info on Google 6. Thermostat: pushbuttons on topside control 7. Heater Type: Thermix 52B thermal wrap. ... no info on Google Misc pics:

Hi y'all, I'm a new forum member; relatively new hot tub owner. My family and I live in Wetumpka, AL and were given a used Dreammaker X-Calibur hot tub that worked great from the time we got it in Oct 07 until just before we stopped using it at the end of Feb 08. I am posting a question in the appropriate forum section in hopes that someone can provide me some guidance. Hope to learn a lot of good info here and maybe provide some later in the future. Thanks, Mark