Re: Torsion Level Operational, or not?

Posted by HH56 On 2015/3/9 20:06:00

The retainer 15.955 was the subject of the early problems. If it slipped it allowed the bearing and worm to move back toward the end cap and away from the pin in the motor.

Believe you said you could hear the motor run but no action. One thing you can do is bring a long jumper wire (jumper cable works well) from the hot side of the battery. Remove the wires from the motor and while you are under and watching, touch the jumper to one of the terminals on the motor -- only touch one at a time. Doing it with the jumper will let you bypass everything electrical and run the motor directly and see where the problem might lie. If motor runs, touch the jumper to the other terminal so the motor will run the opposite direction just to verify it works. No need to do it more than long enough to see if things move.

If things do move, be careful and watch to make sure it is not trying to rotate the bars thru the center of compensator. If the bars move all is most likely well mechanically. If nothing happens check the center ring 15.947 and see if it is rotating in the housing while bars are doing nothing. If it is not rotating and motor is running but no bars moving, then the spines twisting off of 15.922 is the most likely problem.

If everything checks out mechanically and fuses are good but still no good action from the level circuit then you will have to check every wire and connection.

Edit: On the ring problem, that bulletin says the armature end of the worm should be extended 3/8" from the seal when all is good. When the ring had slipped the end of worm could be pushed or worm turned or threaded in so it was almost flush with the seal. You might verify that is OK.