Hi all just had an email from someone asking about some motors .So I passed on my phone number to him and he arraigned to meet me .
He bought a C5 some while ago and had it converted to run on 12 and 24 volts by a switch .
He explained it worked for quiet a while until he heard a grinding noise from the gearbox .
Anyway he brought the gearbox down for me to see it ...
and as you will see it is damaged and unusable .
Also you can see it has metal cogs and the gearbox has been filled in with epoxy resin to give it extra strength and then a metal band fitted around it ,but as you`l see the pillars are lose in the holes and the small gearbox bearings have broken of the motor shaft
It looks like the bearings snapped off allowing the motor to drop putting strain on the shaft ..
At this point He shoed me some photo`s of the motor on the C5 and it looks like the motor had dropped of even with a ty wrap in place ..
I know that the c5 was not designed to run on 24 volts but it can as long as it`s not abused ..
He has now made himself a member of the site ..
Take a look at the photo`s