Just picked up the truck from the shop -- smooth as silk!!! It really is awesome having it
back and as quiet as it originally was.
This was one of those odd, double-failure situations.... When we initially started getting
the vibrations and hearing the awful sound coming through the truck body, I figured
something was loose so I tipped the truck bed up and checked, and one of the two motors
had a couple of loose mounting bolts. So I tightened those up and figured we were done --
but the vibration sound continued; only when under acceleration or deceleration. After
replacing the batteries I took it in to get it looked at and they discovered the bad
pinion gear bearing. I must have a thing for pinion gear bearings -- Back in 1975 when I
started driving my first car was a 1960 VW beetle. Shortly after I started driving it it
developed a grinding noise and it turned out to be a bad pinion gear bearing!
I'm almost finished pulling all the EV parts out of the Force -- just the motor/gearbox
assembly is left. Part of me would like to transplant them into our 2000 Honda Insight to
convert it into an EV if we can't sell it. But after doing all the work to get the
half-shafts out (good lord, 22 years of corrosion made getting the bolts out of the struts
nearly impossible!) and looking at how all the front-end parts fit together I realized
just how tailor-made the Solectria gearbox is for the Metro, and I doubt I could fit it
into the Insight. That gearbox is a thing of beauty. The motors I'm keeping because they
could go into the truck; I guess I'll sell the gearboxes to get them to a good home.
-Tom
On 8/28/2019 8:39 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
But its EV components are living on....
I'll be curious to see what you do with them. :-)
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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