Thanks for the reply spa guru,
Unfortunately the CC is not the issue as i havnt tried it on another pool, but have tried another Creepy crawly on my pool with the same results.
As for the vacuum release, when i originally connected it the suction was way too high so i drilled some holes in the skimmer box adapter to allow some water to bypass. The cavitation slowly got a little better so i kept drilling and eventually drilled too much that the CC stopped all together. However pump was still cavitating. It makes me think it is a pressure problem somewhere in the system.
Maybe pump too large or possibly too small?