Re: (ET) Front Lift Motor

[Tom G <wavetech superlink com>]

Did a quick search for power window motor repair and came up with:

http://dandmrestoration.home.mindspring.com/motors.htm

http://www.convertibleparts.com/manufact.htm

http://www.essex1.com/people/rebuild/mot.html

There are probably many more shops reparing car power window motors.

Looks like an option for these motors anybody ever have there motor 
rebuilt?

tom

At 09:29 PM 11/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>A while back I noticed that my front lift motor suddenly seemed to have
gotten a
>lot weaker then it used to be.  It sounded weaker, and could no longer
lift the
>front mowing deck.  It also would cut out completely for a while, and then
come
>back to (weak) life.
>
>So, I pulled the beast out and cleaned it up and made sure it was decently
>lubed.  This made it a little better, but not what it should be.  Now it 
>can
>lift the deck -- if I do it in a series of about 10 second bursts, with a
good
>rest in between each.  Worse yet, when I run it with nothing attached, 
>just
>pulling the strap in and out, it can only run for about 20 seconds at a 
>time
>before cutting out on the thermal overload.  I also noticed that with 
>nothing
>else running (i.e. not using drive motor or PTO) just running the lift
with no
>load runs the ammeter up to almost the top of the green band.  Don't 
>remember
>how it was before, but that seems high.  (And relative to some of the 
>earlier
>discussions, I am running mine at the standard 18v level.)
>
>I can't find much in the manuals I have access to about care and feeding
of the
>lift motor.  Any tricks to try?  Or have I possibly started loosing one of
the
>windings?  I did notice that it had an adjustment on the bearing at the
end of
>the worm gear.  Any magic to how to set that?
>
>- Tom Coate
>E-20, Leesburg, VA
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