I am hoping to pull the motor this weekend. Where would I be shipping the motor to? (Curious on shipping cost to send it to you.) Also, what is the difference between the Blue and Black are these D&D brand motors that you sell? And do they require reprogramming?
Blue motor is D&D black is AMD usually works as is.
Diehl Engineering
2400 Baywater Road
Tavares Florida
32778
We had time to take the motor out today and the speed sensor magnet was broken. I was surprised it wasn’t in too bad of shape otherwise and I definitely expected it to be dirtier then it is. Brushes are all still good. Just my grease idea looks bad. I’m going to clean off the grease and replace the sensor tomorrow to see if that is all it was. However, I’m not totally sure since the armature part sounds like there are some little pieces loose in it when you turn it from end to end.
the armature part sounds like there are some little pieces loose in it when you turn it from end to end.
Stand the motor up on end on the workbench and see if anything comes out.
If you have compressed air, take the motor outside and give it a good blast/cleaning.
I’ll take "what is grease? "For 200, Tribeck. And, BTW, Tribeck, your mother is a *****.
Winner, winner…chicken dinner!
Well, despite the motors armature/commutator sounding like a rain stick. Cleaning off the grease and replacing the broken speed sensor did the trick for curing the power losses. If I get any more power failures I will take the next steps in replacing it completely but so far it seems good for now.
Thank you JarJarJava for recommending the CRC cleaner, that made it a breeze and got it looking nice and shiny.
despite the motors armature/commutator sounding like a rain stick
While it was out on the workbench, did you check to see if all the brushes were sliding freely within their brush holders?
If is possible some of the oils soaked into the brush carbon and is popping/arcing in protest.
Yes, it as taken apart and checked. The brushes were clean and actually in good shape. The CRC got them even cleaner. It is the main cylinder (armature or commutator part) that goes into the brushes that sounds like a rain stick and you hear it when it turns. It is not the bearing at the end which was still in good shape too. It doesn’t seem to be a problem though.
I am pretty certain the main motor failing problem because of the broken speed sensor and it needing a cleaning. It might have had some build up before I put the grease on it and the grease made it way worse but in the same way it had been failing before. There had been no codes to help diagnose which was confusing me. Especially since 2 times out of many all the power went out (even the radio) which still doesn’t make sense to me. There could be another issue that has not surfaced but the power loss when driving with no codes and only the gas pedal stopped working was definitely fixed.
Does that “rainstick” effect vary in intensity with how hard you press the pedal down?
Does the noise change when you press the brake pedal?
The rainstick sound is the armature in the motor. When I took it out and apart to clean it. It is the actual center of motor that sounds like a rainstick. Unfortunately, it is starting to die again. I think the motor needs to be replaced, the cleaning got it running but only a week later now it is stalling and losing power again.