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Re: (ET) Motor out

Some may have figured this out but for anyone who has not here's an easy way to drop/install a traction motor. At the hardware store get two lengths of 1/4" threaded rod, 6 washers, 6 nuts. With two pieces of scrap wood drill a 1/4" hole in each. The traction motor is held in place with 4 carriage bolts, remove one from the front left corner and a second bolt from the rear left corner. Insert the threaded rods from the footwell through the motor mounting bracket under the tractor using two washers and two nuts on each rod, securing each rod so that most of it, 11" or so, sticks up in the footwell. Use the remaining washers and nuts and install the scrap wood as a handle on each rod. Remove the two remaining carriage bolts from the motor bracket..... the motor is now supported by the threaded rods and can easily be lowered to ground by pulling up on the scrap handles and releasing the nuts. I hurt a shoulder taking a 45lb e12 motor out of my tractor just using my hands, but before swapping it for a 70lb e20 motor I figured out the threaded rod solution. Necessity is the mother of invention. 
Cheers, Jack

On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Chris Zach wrote:
Ok, the motor is out and on the bench. Fortunately the 4 field wires are held in place by one of those cable clamp things. So the clamp kept the 
wire from ripping out inside the motor.

Good GE. Good good GE. Wise people at GE.

Anyway, I used a crimp on insulated barrel connector and put the clamp
back on. There's enough slack inside the motor to do this. Once again,
good GE thing. Now I'll put the motor back in (helps to have a jack) and 
see what happens.
For the spring I should probably R&R the motor. Any advice or manuals on 
taking it apart? How does one get the rear brush assembly out?

Chris

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