Posted by Don-Wi on December 09, 2012 at 19:24:07 from (75.249.119.49):
Today I headed out to the farm to help Dad replace the motor on the manure auger with a spare so he could have the one on it rebuilt or replaced, as in the last couple days it wouldn't start on it's own without him going up and spinning the pulley first. Bad capacitor I figured, but we didn't know much of the history of the motor.
I got there and they had tried cleaning the gutters first, but the chain came off the jackshaft because a bearing just went out too. I tore into it (while it's snowing for the first time, and it's heavy wet stuff, of course) and to my surprise, everything came apart with ease. I got the good bearing off without a torch, all the pulleys (motor, jackshaft, and temporary replacement motor)and the sprocket came off without a fight of any kind.
We got a list of what we needed which was a pulley that would fit the temp. motor, and (2) 1 1/4 pre-lubed bearings. Went to Fleet Farm with Dad and we found only a single strand pulley, but it fit with the tapered hub on the temp motor, and the last 2 bearings of that size.
When I got home I put the new bearings in first and got that done, and while I did that Dad opened up the box on the motor to remove the wires- and that's when he saw the problem..... A wire had come off the capacitor.
So in much less time than we had figured, we had fixed the auger and were back up and running without having to put his fingers on the line to spin it first. Saved around $400-600 on either rebuilding or replacing the motor this way.
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