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Different motor design, but this guy shows how to take apart a hub motor with a gear puller, and has some good tips as well: Looks like I need to invest in another tool (it's cliche, I love buying tools :p).

Hm, the mechanic at our LBS (LeBS? LEBS? eLBS?), The New Wheel mentioned that possibility as well, although he has also never worked on this motor. They don't sell HPV, they're the ones who sold us our R&M. The guy who retrofitted our HPV Scorpion doesn't work on motors either, as they are...

While I wait for motor 3 to arrive, I unlaced the wheel around motor 2 and removed it's screws. Unfortunately, while there is hypothetically nothing holding the wheel together other than the decal you can see in the attached photo, the two halves of the motor casing seem to be practically glued...

@PDoz no, I got the 100% Aircraft. The visor is definitely removable, but there's no way to adjust the length.

So the new motor (motor 3) should be in the mail soon. I ordered an AC Delco torque adapter and it arrived today. I threw the male end in a vice and inserted my Tekton torque wrench in the female end set to 40 Nm, and lo and behold, at 40-45 Nm, it doesn't click, so it appears to be...

@PDoz it's down all the way, that was one of the first things I did, but it still whips my head around a bit. We also have strong winds here, especially when the fog is in (called "Karl" by most locals, but my spouse and I call him Carlos). Anyway, even on level ground if the winds are around 20...

@Scott Adams yeah, it frankly sucks. In the case of GSD, it seems especially disappointing because apparently they were profitable, just not as much as they would have liked, as I understand it (could be wrong). It's bad enough when a good product or company dies because the company has no...

Again, this is a brand-new motor, nothing wrong with it except that I broke the axle accidentally. It's actually a warranty replacement for a motor that did fail, due to a failed torque sensor. I'm getting a third motor at my own expense to get the trike running again, but have an otherwise...

@Scott Adams yes, I was tightening the nut on the drive side. My mechanic's theory was that because I had not tightened the non-drive side first, which has the torque arm, there was enough wiggle while I was tightening it to introduce some extra torsion and shear the axle bolt under the 40-45 Nm...

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So it looks like I will have to have a custom part milled. I reached out to GSD, and this was the somewhat humorous response: Well, yes, I can do it by myself, but only if GSD will sell me the axle, and apparently they will not - so machining will be the only option. I've been told the Endless...

I hear what he's saying though - you often need to have a very specific 'magic phrase' to unlock a search and really find what you're after. The more technical the thing is, the more specific the phrase. As a software engineer, I've learned to get really good at finding those phrases - we call...

@JRA thanks for the vid. Yeah, I contacted GSD to see if they can source me an axle directly. If not... I guess I would have to buy a used motor as cheaply as possible on eBay or something and cannabalize it. It did seem strange to me it would shear, but since it's via HPV, I have to go through...

So I recently broke the axle on a Go SwissDrive rear hub motor for my HP Velotechnik Scorpion. I've opted to purchase a replacement wheel at retail cost, which the distributor has kindly offered. That leaves me with a perfectly good, brand new hub motor that is useless owing to a single part...

So the saga continues. I got the warranty replacement, and had an adventure with my car, a 2001 TDI Beetle on the way. I lost all of my oil on the trip to Alameda, which is an island, and the expense of towing back to San Francisco would have been quite high, so I had to leave the car behind to...

Oh yeah, that's our 'cat wall'. We had 'too many cats' as well - 2 - until one passed recently, so our other cat has it all to herself now. I've got three of them on that wall, staggered, mounted on L-brackets. Gotta say, a cat's natural death - not pretty. I've never seen a cat pass naturally...

Helmet arrived today, had a chance to try it out on a steep climb up Clipper (photo in an earlier reply) in roughly 67º F weather, and it was surprisingly cool and comfortable. @steve mercier it does kind of make me look like a storm trooper even without body armor, especially in addition to the...

@IggyBBR thanks for your input, it's very much appreciated. What surprised me about this thread is that usually when you post something on a forum, a comment section, or what have you, there are a wide range of opinions from full support to outright trolling. Well, trolling doesn't usually occur...

Interesting, that reminds me of the brand of milk we buy here called Strauss - it comes in old-fashioned glass bottles that you turn in for a bottle deposit back to the grocery store, it's like $1.50 per bottle. With the bottle deposit, I think it's about $5-8 dollars for a half gallon. I don't...