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I've re-uploaded the pics. See if that works.

After breaking the seat stay and having to wait for the replacement, I decided to rebuild the motor. Mainly as I thought the sprag bearing was on its way out, as it has slipped under full standing up cranking once or twice. The motor has done over 8300km so not a bad effort and other than that...

Mine is really tight, it’s like it is a press fit in there. I’m going to have to make some kind of puller to remove it.:(

How did you remove the sprag bearing from this housing? The brass part seems to be pressed into the outer steel housing and I was worried about damaging it.

Well, you are right. If it's possible to machine the bearing down, that would be the least risky part to do it on. I've never machined a bearing, it would be pretty hard stuff and tricky to hold but I'm sure someone should be able to do it.

I wonder if it would be worth machining the spindle down to size? That's if it can be removed to do so.

That great, I think I'll be ordering that bearing an O-rings at least! Great link, I'll certainly be watching that one! So good that you can rebuild a motor rather than replacing the whole unit when it's just something like a sprag clutch.

That's good to know. The 1.1 motor in my Levo SL is running quite well so far with over $7000km on it but I have had what I think may be a slipping of the sprag clutch. It's only happened a couple of times but usually when I'm descending and standing up and cranking. Feels like a chain slip but...