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Here's the back end of the transmission/motor. Based on a suggestion from another 914 AC customer, I purchased some long 8mm bolts to lower the transmission end about 8 inches and still keep it stable. Note the long silver rods (8mm bolts) in the diagram above. I used one floor jack to lower the back end of the tranny. I had to remove the speedo cable, the accelerator cable, the clutch cable and the shift linkage to do this (argh!).
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I used the second floor jack to lower the front end of the motor assembly so that the 12" long motor bolts could actually slide out of the AC 24 motor.
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Here's the end of the AC24 motor lowered so that I could extract the long bolts. Notice that I've already removed one in the upper right position on the round endcap.
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Here are the pieces for the upgrade kit above one of the motor bolts. In short, a lock washer and flat washer replace the nylon ones that came with the kit. Loctite further holds the bolt in place.
While this was a real pain. I'm glad this is taken care of so I don't have to worry about it.
Tomorrow (hopefully): connecting the motor to the controller and possibly starting on connecting the batteries with high-current cable.
1 comment:
About to do the same thing to my motor (fortunately, I have not yet attached it to the car :-).
Also, I've started a blog of my own on my progress:
volt914
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