Re: Vacation Car - 56 Patrician

Posted by Ross On 2023/3/27 7:08:29

Your compensator is adjusted to pretty much the full up position which stands to reason as the back of the car is up, and the car does not have its full weight on it yet. The short link is to the front of the car and the long link to the rear which tells me the compensator has not gone over center which is good.

First, it seems that your motor simply doesn't run as you mentioned having power to one of its terminals and nothing was happening. One of those terminals hot makes it go up, the other one hot makes it go down. You will need to get that happy first before anything else can be addressed. Take the band off the motor and snap the brush holders in and out with your finger. Then get under there with a battery or even a good strong battery charger, ground the case and power the terminals one at a time. You should get up and down. Do not run the mechanism over center so that the short link is to the rear. Report back.