I guess my biggest question is how do I separate the washer from the threads that has the loctite on it
Are you sure its shorted? How many ohms did it measure? I only ask because you REALLY don't want to disassemble this unless it's absolutely necessary.
Yes I'm sure,0.4 ohms is should be around 4.5-5 ohms. Not worries about taking apart is just the Loctite they use to glue the thread to the washer. Don't want to force to hard and bend anything
Quoted from lockislit:Yes I'm sure,0.4 ohms is should be around 4.5-5 ohms. Not worries about taking apart is just the Loctite they use to glue the thread to the washer. Don't want to force to hard and bend anything
I see, that's something you don't see happen very often.
If it were me, I would remove the actuator coil and brackets to get the entire magnet and actuator shaft separated from the housing, the top of the ball plunger shaft is slotted so you can put a wrench on it and the magnet core itself is keyed so it cant twist in its mounting plate. Unfortunatly, you are just going to have to force through the locktite, you will likely have to remove the ball plunger from the magnet core first which is why I suggest getting it out of the main housing if you can, once this is removed, you can remove the nut from the magnet core, this should be fairly easy once everything else is apart. The main concern here is the magnet core itself appears to be tapered, this is going to be placing significant force on the ball plunger shaft, in order to relieve this stress, you will need to loosen the large magnet core hex nut a couple turns.
Good Luck! Please let us know how all this works out.
pasted_image (resized).pngGot it,thanks for tip I think it helped once got in there it broke with less effort than I thought it would take,rest was fairly easy except for replacement coil not as uniform as old one so once in game would rub on coffin trough but was able to twist coil enough to make work.
Cheers
Mike
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