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THanks Kloveland and Jo. Gonna take it back apart and see.... Will let you know!

Can anyone give me ideas about what I might have done on reassembly that would explain overheating and then the motor having little suck when it returns? I will take it back apart but would love to know where to look. Reassembling it seemed like a nightmare... but I will try to be more...

THanks for your response, rugsucker. I found reassembling it to be very difficult... so I wondered the same thing. But it did work after reassembly and it's the overheating event that marks when it stopped working. Maybe something I did reassembling caused that?

The motor works but doesn’t suck well enough. Can these motors be damaged so the they have diminished power or must something else be at issue — such as whatever made it overheat in the first place?

No clog!

I’m a diy’er who recently replaced the cord winder in this Aerus 5000. (I have no idea if that’s related to this problem) Recently the overheat light and breaker was tripped. I changed the filters and the bag, in case there was a clog. After the motor cooled down, it did work, and it...

Thanks All. It seems annoying that I can’t open this thing and try to fix it but I did order a new one. Decidedly aftermarket though much cheaper than the Electrolux ones. I figured it was worth a try. Since I’m doing the work myself and I’ve already got the old one out it’s not that big an...

I have the opposite problem of every post and video I can find — my chord is not stuck, rather it won’t ever stop retracting. The action to pause it isn’t working. I have not taken it apart yet…. Looking for adivce about whether it’s a fix for a skilled DIYer like me, or if I ought to take it...