After I had a good chat with Peter (the bearing man) I decided to have another look inside the motor and at the torque sensor in particular, I couldn’t see any signs of damage to it or it’s connectors and there’s no way to adjust the sensor on my gen 3 motor. Looking over the circuit board with...
The parts needed to fix my motor came on Monday (thanks to Peter the bearing-man) I got it back together last night and it powered up ok so I was quite excited to get out today for a test ride. Unfortunately the excitement didn’t last long as I got a 510 error code after only a few hundred yards...
So I had time to pull the motor apart this afternoon.
The most obvious damage was the broken teeth on the nylon gear and the lost teeth were what was stopping the cranks from turning backwards. I still have to pull the core of the motor out in order to check it hasn’t been bent, (is there any...
Thanks guys, i brought a bearing from yourselves not so long ago, I’ll have the motor open in the next couple of days for a better idea of what I need.
Fixing it is the best option but worse case, I could always get a second hand motor.
cheers Carl
I brought my first ebike in 08 and I’m now on my 3rd, a Cube Acid one.
I also have a Crossfuse for road rides and a couple of analog bikes for shorter flatter rides.
the Cube is my favourite to ride but i gave it a bit too much abuse in the winter mud And after 5500 miles I needed to put a new...