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Thread Number: 40751
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Techdrive lever fell out of Ultimate G Diamond |
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| Post# 432999 10/3/2020 at 10:47 (1,292 days old) by mariotron (Texas ) | ||
Was just using it as normal then as soon as it put into drive it just fell out.
Doesn't seem to be an damage on the shaft but it's stuck in drive but if I push it in hard enough it puts it back into neutral but doesn't stay in. What kind of repairs im looking at here?
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| Post# 433000 , Reply# 1 10/3/2020 at 10:56 (1,292 days old) by mariotron (Texas ) | ||
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Forgot to add the image the selector
there might be something missing i have never on a TD so I'm not sure
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| Post# 433012 , Reply# 2 10/3/2020 at 14:00 (1,292 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
I hope these photos of a spare Tech Drive unit I had on the shelf will help you get yours back together. The 'N/D' pedal is held in place by a single Torx (T15) screw on the bottom of the Tech Drive unit. There's a little locator pin next to the screw hole that will help you line things up (see photos below). Looking at your photos, it appears the cam has come off the pedal shaft. Not sure how that would have happened. Mine is pressed pretty firmly into place.
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| Post# 433015 , Reply# 3 10/3/2020 at 14:31 (1,292 days old) by vacuumdevil (Vacuum Hell ) | ||
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| Post# 433021 , Reply# 4 10/3/2020 at 16:07 (1,292 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
This is a normal issue on G series Kirbys that see heavy use, or more extreme use of the drive pedal. Every time you press the pedal, it wears away at the cam grip minutely by nanometers. Over time, that adds up more and more wear on the metal pin until the camshaft doesn't grip anymore and it just falls out. It's the danger of using press-fit parts and not securing them more strongly as a backup hold-down.
I have two G series Kirbys that have this issue, plus my own personal Ultimate G owned since new in 2002. On that one, the front wheels came off the same way. No amount of pressing them back on again got them to stay on, they just worked themselves loose again. I had to replace the entire axle and wheel assembly to get fresh metal. I bought a second axle just to satisfy my curiosity and tried to fit my old wheel set on it. Well, they wobbled around and fit pretty loose, and when I rolled it across the carpet as a mock demonstration, the wheels just slid further and further off with each forward and backward roll until they fell off. | ||
| Post# 433024 , Reply# 5 10/3/2020 at 17:30 (1,292 days old) by mariotron (Texas ) | ||
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Thank you for the pictures! | ||
| Post# 433025 , Reply# 6 10/3/2020 at 17:33 (1,292 days old) by mariotron (Texas ) | ||
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Sorry for the extra post but
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| Post# 433035 , Reply# 7 10/3/2020 at 22:50 (1,292 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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