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corvette tech help. ball will get locked in motor but then....

By dvandentop

12 years ago



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#1 12 years ago

got a question on my corvette there is a little flapper on the motor that once the ball goes into the motor it will keep the ball from rolling back out. well sometimes it doesnt flip up to allow the ball to go to the ball lock mutiball holding area. is there any fix for this???

the only reason to get going again is to wait for the ball search to trigger all the coils and then the motor rocks and it will fall into place. i am guessing this could be somewhat a common problem????

#2 12 years ago

Never heard of it before. You'll need to get in there and figure why your little flapper isn't 100%.

Could be dirty, need adjusting, if it gets pulled by a spring on a wire arm on a coil be sure the spring hasn't slipped out of place. See if anything got bent or broken. Etc.

LTG

#3 12 years ago
Quoted from LTG:

Never heard of it before. You'll need to get in there and figure why your little flapper isn't 100%.
Could be dirty, need adjusting, if it gets pulled by a spring on a wire arm on a coil be sure the spring hasn't slipped out of place. See if anything got bent or broken. Etc.
LTG

yeah problem is it doesnt happen all the time so sorta weird. yes it does get pulled by the coil. so will have to check it out.

#4 12 years ago

Could even be an intermittent switch issue where the machine doesn't know the ball made it up the ramp into the motor. I'd start in SW test then take apart and clean the flapper gate assembly, coil, sleeve, etc

#5 12 years ago

My corvette did it but it was due to binding. try taking it apart...the rod can get bent or the spring is bound.

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