I am retaking it all apart now, I don't see any other tears yet. I did look through the Hayward EC 65 manual on- line again and it looks like there is suppose to be 3 O- rings on the bump shaft, mine only has two O rings but I don't see a place where the third one would go. Any thoughts ??
A small bit of good news all of the fingers were coated at the top 3 inches or so when I took it apart.