Re: Torsion Level Operational, or not?

Posted by HH56 On 2015/2/13 12:46:10

When you run the motor with the manual switch does the motor run or are you saying motor runs but there is absolutely nothing happening with the transverse bars or no rotation of the lever exiting the compensator??

If no motor, then strictly electrical and will need to troubleshoot to verify where the problem lies.

If motor does run but no other action then two possibilities. The first is the retaining clip for the worm gear end bearing has slipped and allowed the bearing and worm to move so it has shifted far enough from the pin on armature shaft the motor can't turn the worm. That was an issue on early 55 units but AFAIK was not a problem later.

The other possibility is sometime during all the problems you were having the compensator rotated the bars around to the wrong side and kept trying to rotate but bars and lever were blocked. Hopefully the fuse would have blown in that situation but if not, because it would have meant trying to moving the bars thru a solid object damage could have been done. In that situation it is possible the part of the output lever containing the splines connecting lever and transverse bars to the planetary was weakened and have now finally sheared off so the compensator in effect has nothing to move.

At this point if motor is running the easiest to eliminate is the out of place bearing. Remove the motor by removing the two end screws and check the worm position. Bulletin 55T-12 details the problem and what to look for. If that part is OK then it is time to remove the compensator.