Hoover Turbopower U2334 Rebuild

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beko1987

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November 1986
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I'm sure it will look familiar to someone on here! Looks to be an early model too at 480!

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All bar one screw came out of the handle cover, it was so rusty I tried for half an hour to tease it out using avariety of methods. Sadly none of those worked so I carefully snapped the housing around the screw. This should glue together and be pretty invisible, and I have another screw

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It came out with some pliers after this

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Handle Orf

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Its been so long since I've done a hard bag TP I forgot it did this

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Thought how the hell is that going to come out of there etc

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Emptied

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Gulp, Autoflex next

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Sorry, refrence shot!

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Had to chop this connector off

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And finally the beast was free!

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Time for the botom end

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Yummy

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Pop the Bonnet

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Removed the 2 clamps and finally stopped it tipping backwards and wiping stuff off my shelf

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I've never seen a motor setup like this. The screws were flathead rather than philips too I noticed

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Marked the location of the wires

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Blue is on the opposite corner...

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The fan was in fine fettle

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De fluffed the other fan, and soaked the bearing in plusgas which has it spinning much better now!

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Carbons about halfway through life, so plenty left for the future!

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Autoflex again now, and I consulted the 1990 book of Hoover

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All the tension went from the cassette, but thats fine because I can re-tension it when re-assembling (much easier when its back in the cover)

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I gingerly undid the spring cover, sprayed plusgas around and put it back...

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And gave the whole thing a clean up

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Picked the activator clean too

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It's soft as anything though so will wash it and try it, but I have a few better ones that will probably go on eventually. The green end ones can barely hold themselved up

Had to clamp the bearings in the vice and turn the shaft with grips to get a bearing off

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And thats it for now. My U1222 is drying, so I'll wash this one Sunday hopefully!
 

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