Very Old Hoover Motor Bearing Question

[vacumaniac]

Working on that Hoover Special I acquired yesterday. It was pretty easy to tear the vac apart, however, can anyone tell me what type of bearing these old motors use? It lloks like a sleeve type bearing.

How are these serviced? Never encountered one before!!

Thanks!

 

[kirbykid]

can you post pics?

 

[vacumaniac]

It actually is a sleeve bearing I guess. So I cleaned it out real good with q-tips and then some blue 3 in one oil rubbed around inside the sleeve. Put it all back together and motor runs nicely indeed!!!! Purrs like a kitten

 

[kirbykid]

well that is good. when are you going to clean it up or put it through the spa like other people say? or are you doing that now?

 

[vacumaniac]

In the process of doing that now. I cleaned all the motor parts and that is back together. The body it self will be next. I think it will clean up quite nicely

 

[kirbykid]

wow you are almost done with the motor and it takes me 3-4 days to do the motors on my kirbies. but that is probably because i only have 15-30 min each day because of school

 

[vacumaniac]

My time is pretty sparse there too, the more you do of these, the faster you will become. That being said, sometimes it takes awhile if a screw is frozen or a fan is not wanting to come off. Once you establish a supply of bearings/brushes you can whizz through them.

Kirby presents a unique challenge due to the aluminum. The shining takes more than anything.

This Hoover motor was by far the easiest I have dealt with to tear down, service and put back together.