madman
Well-known member
Model U3105
Got this from an estate sale. Tagged $50, on the last day so half off, I still wasn't interested at $25. I simply asked the guy how much for the two vacuum cleaners if I buy both, he replied $5 each. Couldn't pass that up. It's become yet another unneeded project.
It's kinda banged up (obviously elderly owned), but I thought I'd see what I could do just for funsies. So far I've replaced the belts and bulbs. The power drive handle was stuck, so I freed that up so it self propels again. It sounds like crap. Basically all the bearings are bad: brush, motor, transmission.
The transmission seems to use the same bearing as the brushroll, which I believe is part number 43267002. Can anyone confirm that?
I tore apart the transmission today trying to figure out how to take up the slack between forward and reverse. I imagine it's 'not adjustable' but I don't take that for an answer. I can make shims to add behind the thrust bearings, and that should do it. I've admittedly never used a self propelled vac before, it's kind of disorienting. But I think it's made worse by worn out clutches. It takes a lot of movement of the handle to get to engagement, and forward in particular doesn't want to grab at all. I have to really ram the handle to get it to grab and go. So I will shim those bearings and that should mitigate that problem, I'm imagining. Any other suggestions for that?
Lastly, the motor I also tore down today. I was pissed off to find the back bearing is a completely open needle bearing. What the hell was Hoover thinking? This motor is jam-packed with dust... gee, it's almost like a machine that cleans dust might be exposed to it. Here's my idea, the original needle bearing is a J65. I want to buy the bearing linked below which is a bit longer (7/16" instead of 5/16"), but has shaft seals to keep out dust. On the motor housing, the bearing looks like it had a shoulder to butt up against, once upon a time, but as I found it, it's destroyed, so I could simply press the longer bearing in past the broken shoulder, and it would stick out of the back a bit.
Thoughts?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007D43DS2
Got this from an estate sale. Tagged $50, on the last day so half off, I still wasn't interested at $25. I simply asked the guy how much for the two vacuum cleaners if I buy both, he replied $5 each. Couldn't pass that up. It's become yet another unneeded project.
It's kinda banged up (obviously elderly owned), but I thought I'd see what I could do just for funsies. So far I've replaced the belts and bulbs. The power drive handle was stuck, so I freed that up so it self propels again. It sounds like crap. Basically all the bearings are bad: brush, motor, transmission.
The transmission seems to use the same bearing as the brushroll, which I believe is part number 43267002. Can anyone confirm that?
I tore apart the transmission today trying to figure out how to take up the slack between forward and reverse. I imagine it's 'not adjustable' but I don't take that for an answer. I can make shims to add behind the thrust bearings, and that should do it. I've admittedly never used a self propelled vac before, it's kind of disorienting. But I think it's made worse by worn out clutches. It takes a lot of movement of the handle to get to engagement, and forward in particular doesn't want to grab at all. I have to really ram the handle to get it to grab and go. So I will shim those bearings and that should mitigate that problem, I'm imagining. Any other suggestions for that?
Lastly, the motor I also tore down today. I was pissed off to find the back bearing is a completely open needle bearing. What the hell was Hoover thinking? This motor is jam-packed with dust... gee, it's almost like a machine that cleans dust might be exposed to it. Here's my idea, the original needle bearing is a J65. I want to buy the bearing linked below which is a bit longer (7/16" instead of 5/16"), but has shaft seals to keep out dust. On the motor housing, the bearing looks like it had a shoulder to butt up against, once upon a time, but as I found it, it's destroyed, so I could simply press the longer bearing in past the broken shoulder, and it would stick out of the back a bit.
Thoughts?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007D43DS2
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