18 January 2014

HillBilly

A customer came in complaining that his Hillbilly Compact Plus was making a ‘terrible’ noise from the gearbox area. We isolated the problem to the motor which we removed and stripped down and upon examination we found one of the lugs on the base plate had fractured and sheared off and was still attached to the motor retaining bolt which screws in to it. Because the bolt was no longer attached it was hanging freely within the motor and causing the noise.

The answer to the problem was to thoroughly clean the motor internals, tap and drill a new thread in to the base plate and re-assemble the motor with a new and longer retaining bolt.

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