Chuck Smith
2000 Club Member
- Location
- NJ
Once again my brother had problems with his E-60. At least once a year he has had trouble. He was on his third pump motor. The first time the carbon brushes were worn out. The second time, two of the springs that press on the carbon brushes were snapped. This time, the motor started turning really slow. The solenoid was just clicking, then the motor would buzz slowly moving the blade. I told him it was a ground problem. Took off the motor, and cleaned the aluminum surfaces to get the white crust off. Held the motor against the lift arm bolt, he hit the switch and the motor spun no problem. Turned the pump shaft with my fingers, no resistance. Put the motor back on, did the same thing.... click and then buzz. Took the motor off again, and put an extra ground wire under one of the bolts that hold the motor on. Didn't help. After 3 hours of standing in the driveway %*#@%@!%*# with his motor, I whacked it with a pair of channel locks. Motor started working normal again. I told him I wanted to weld a nut on the motor body, to put a good ground wire on it. He left to go plow.
I then went to put the plow on my truck. Opened the hood to check fluids, and my battery was laying on the inner fender. The little hold down clamp was gone! Had a spare in the garage, put it on, topped off the radiator, and put my plow on. Went to plow. Did two parking lots, took a long time getting up the frozen hardpack under the 12". At one lot, I plowed in a Mercedes that some idiot left there. I did it slowly to get plenty of snow under the car. The car had no snow on it, so it was clear someone parked it there after the snow stopped. With 12", not plowing the car in would have made it extrememly difficult to plow the lot.
Got a call from my brother, he had to hit the motor a few more times while plowing to get it to work but he was getting his lots done.
The next day, my brother called me after leaving the Meyer dealer. He got a new motor, and a new touchpad. He said the touchpad just came out. The motor, came out recently too, and was different. It had the + terminal on the motor, and 2" away from that, it has a - terminal! The guy told him they had so much trouble with bad grounding, that they redesigned the motor. He said aluminum is a bad conductor to begin with, so this solves the grounding problem.
The new touchpad, is a lemon. It has an "overload" feature, that shuts off the pad. My brother said just raising the blade, overloaded it. He said he had to turn the pad on and off more than he had to move the blade, so he went back to the dealer. They tried 3 of those new touchpads, and all of them "overloaded". The dealer had one of the old touchpads in stock. They put that on, and it worked fine. The dealer said he wouldn't be stocking that new pad anymore, since it sucks.
My brother asked him about the new Aggressor plow, and he had it in the catalog there. It's called the AG-8. They also make it in 9' (AG-9) and 11' (AG-11). It has a really steep curl to the moldboard. The moldboard is 33" tall. The dealer had no pricing info on it yet, but was going to call Meyer, and get back to my brother with prices. He said we would need the Aggressor moldboard, and the Aggressor A frame. We could use our existing angle rams, mounting frames, and power packs. I have a feeling the Aggressor has 12" angle rams, so our 10" rams won't work, but we'll see.
So if you have an E-60 pump, you might want to get this new motor. You DON'T want to get the new touchpad!
~Chuck
I then went to put the plow on my truck. Opened the hood to check fluids, and my battery was laying on the inner fender. The little hold down clamp was gone! Had a spare in the garage, put it on, topped off the radiator, and put my plow on. Went to plow. Did two parking lots, took a long time getting up the frozen hardpack under the 12". At one lot, I plowed in a Mercedes that some idiot left there. I did it slowly to get plenty of snow under the car. The car had no snow on it, so it was clear someone parked it there after the snow stopped. With 12", not plowing the car in would have made it extrememly difficult to plow the lot.
Got a call from my brother, he had to hit the motor a few more times while plowing to get it to work but he was getting his lots done.
The next day, my brother called me after leaving the Meyer dealer. He got a new motor, and a new touchpad. He said the touchpad just came out. The motor, came out recently too, and was different. It had the + terminal on the motor, and 2" away from that, it has a - terminal! The guy told him they had so much trouble with bad grounding, that they redesigned the motor. He said aluminum is a bad conductor to begin with, so this solves the grounding problem.
The new touchpad, is a lemon. It has an "overload" feature, that shuts off the pad. My brother said just raising the blade, overloaded it. He said he had to turn the pad on and off more than he had to move the blade, so he went back to the dealer. They tried 3 of those new touchpads, and all of them "overloaded". The dealer had one of the old touchpads in stock. They put that on, and it worked fine. The dealer said he wouldn't be stocking that new pad anymore, since it sucks.
My brother asked him about the new Aggressor plow, and he had it in the catalog there. It's called the AG-8. They also make it in 9' (AG-9) and 11' (AG-11). It has a really steep curl to the moldboard. The moldboard is 33" tall. The dealer had no pricing info on it yet, but was going to call Meyer, and get back to my brother with prices. He said we would need the Aggressor moldboard, and the Aggressor A frame. We could use our existing angle rams, mounting frames, and power packs. I have a feeling the Aggressor has 12" angle rams, so our 10" rams won't work, but we'll see.
So if you have an E-60 pump, you might want to get this new motor. You DON'T want to get the new touchpad!
~Chuck
. I'm not a big fan of computers on plows!!