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1) The clutch never switches itself to the ON position when I tilt the vacuum back. I always have to manually kick it onto this setting once I tilt the vacuum. The beater then starts working. When I stand the vacuum upright it goes back onto setting 2 (auto) as it should, but tilting again leaves it on auto.
I replaced the clutch
I thought the clutch replacement went quite well, and the clutch selector never workwd , was the same before I did the clutch. Good to know its definitely not right though.
Assuming you put a working clutch in...is the triangle part of the frame arrowed in the photo intact on your machine?It's this part that operates the clutch so if this is broken or misaligned it won't turn the clutch on/off.The clutch is turned off in this photo so the clutch arm isn't resting on the triangle.
You cant strip the spring out of a clutch sadly, but your issue may be the internals where it moves the cog on and off of the other cog (sorry, been a long day!) There's a thread in the how to section that shows it all. As said though, check the location of the lug as that does the work.What does the internal hose that goes to the brushroll look like? IIRC the orientation of this is key as it forms the spring for the soleplate, so if it's not correct it wont pivot properly. Sounds like it's got some suck to it though if it glues itself down! There's a suction hole right at the front of the soleplate to grab large bits before the brushroll, is this blocked?
Quote from: beko1987 on July 25, 2014, 01:25:09 pmYou cant strip the spring out of a clutch sadly, but your issue may be the internals where it moves the cog on and off of the other cog (sorry, been a long day!) There's a thread in the how to section that shows it all. As said though, check the location of the lug as that does the work.What does the internal hose that goes to the brushroll look like? IIRC the orientation of this is key as it forms the spring for the soleplate, so if it's not correct it wont pivot properly. Sounds like it's got some suck to it though if it glues itself down! There's a suction hole right at the front of the soleplate to grab large bits before the brushroll, is this blocked?Thanks for the tip on the hose orientation. I took it out and flipped it which seems to have solved the issue with the soleplate flipping nose down and engaging limpet mode.I now still have the issue with the clutch not auto-activating when I tilt the vacuum and a new problem too which I'll mention shortly. I took a picture of the clutch knob with the cover off and can see it touches the plastic around it when rotated into the auto position (as pictured) but it doesn't seem like it should be enough to stop the clutch rotating. The plastic itself is all in good nick and not obviously warped. I have added a picture below.So although the soleplate issue is now ok, I find that the beater bar struggles to turn after a while. It rotates around but when I push the vacuum forward you can hear it meets resistance at the carpet and slows or stops turning, when I pull the vacuum back it starts again. As mentioned I already replaced the clutch a while back but does this sound like like the clutch is buggered again?
It looks like its been rubbing going by the white plastic powder scattered around.If you feel confident, I'd remove it, clean up the mating faces on both the dyson and the clutch, put a nice smear of grease on all the moving parts and see if that helps it.You will need to:Soleplate offBrushroll out (the tool helps massivly but you may be able to do it with 2 screwdrivers)brushroll carrier out (it pops out but be careful not to snap the bottom housing whilst you do it) The internal hose comes off now3x t25 screws, one is quite deepput the cleaner in upright positionPull the clutch cover up and offpop the belt off the motor spindlegrab both belts and pull upwardsclean, grease, re-assemble (keep the brushroll end cap off for now if you think you may need to do it again, I find it a pain to get on and off) it wont affect the clutchIf you need to replace the belts, then either a refurbished (or new) clutch or https://manchestervacs.co.uk/DysonForum/index.php/topic,1196.0.html and back together!When the clutch is out test the operation. One way only the clutch to motor pulley should spin, the other way it will spin both pulleys (may need to pull on the belts a bit to get the tension enough to spin everything)