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Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« on: December 11, 2018, 10:53:50 pm »
The Hoover Turbopower 3 came along in the mid 1990's, to sort of replace the Turbopower 2, but didnt really add much bar a very long hose, which admittedly is very good, and transforms the machine!



But apart from that, is just a Turbopower 2 really! And mine was a very filthy Turbopower 3 when I first got it!


And after a while, it's time rolled around to go under the magic fixing hammer



Drop the cable

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Remove the slightly battered hose

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And remove the ends

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The rubber latch that holds the hose to the bottom of the cleaner to stop it falling over when using the tools is branded Hoover, which is very surprising for this time period!

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Tools off

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And the back is bare now



The handle is held on with one screw

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2018, 11:01:08 pm »
And can be removed from the cleaner

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The additional hose holder that holds the much longer than usual hose unscrews too

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And the handle top pops off

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The bag door is removed now

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It's quite filthy!

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The bag door seal pulls out

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Nice little Hoover logo stamped in the moulding

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And this date wheels shows 1992/3, which is about right as the whole cleaner itself is a Turbopower 2, and would have used the same mould, only the hose and extra holder are additional!)

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The filters weren't in too bad of a shape

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2018, 11:05:40 pm »
Next was to de-wire the top, and that all sits under these two screws

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Tadah! VERY similar to a Purepower under here, which itself is a fairly facelifted Turbopower 2!

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The bag full light slides over the bottom of the red cover and clamps itself together, and the switch pops out

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The switch cover pulls off

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Someone has tried to clean the old girl up before (Probably it's old owner, who was a collector called Allan who sadly passed away early last year) as there's polish residue everywere!

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The mains cable is held in with this clamp

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And with the mains cable unscrewed and removed, we can go no further up here, and need to travel down a bit!

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2018, 11:11:58 pm »
This lower trim piece pops out to reveal some VERY long screws

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With the two LONG and 2 shorter bottom screws removed, the motor cover lifts off

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On the motor cover is the post motor filter sat behind the removable grille

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And inside a foam diffuser

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It's all very filthy inside here!

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But enough of down there, we need to go back up and remove the two screws from inside the bag compartment, and lift the bag compartment itself out of the cleaner!

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The bag holder comes out with a single screw

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B is for Beko1987!

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Bit emptier now!

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2018, 11:16:05 pm »
We can remove the clip that holds the spinal cord in now!

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And unplug it from the pressure valve for the bag full LED to get the cable out of the way a bit

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Behind the bag compartment hide the screws that hold the tool holder on

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The hose clip snaps out of the main holder

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Time to get the motor out! The fancase suction duct lifts out

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And the air pipe for the LED indicator and top rubber seal all pull nicely off

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Pressure valve is free now too, 133 mbar, whatever that is!

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We can move down even further now! The height adjustment knob needs to come off first though

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Then over she flips! The blockage inspection cover lifts off

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2018, 11:19:33 pm »
This sticker was nearly off so I helped it along!

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The locking latch pops off the clear cover

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Baseplate next

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The Activator was in very good condition!

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Metalwork out

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And stripped apart!

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Centre wheels out

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These metal plates are what the activator end caps slot into and are screwed into the lower chassis

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And finally, with 2 more screws, the hood can be removed!

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2018, 11:24:14 pm »
Which is a year older than the bag door!

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The release pedal pops out of the hood, no Purepower broken-ness here!

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The motor can now be lifted out!

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The motor in this one is utterly perfect in every way, the fan was even clean so alone it got left I'm afraid, no motor magic hands today!

The machine is suddenly alot lighter though!

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This tiny rubber bung sits in the motor locating channels

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This part sits in the bottom chassis and forms the other part of the release mechanism, it pulls out

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2 pivot brackets have the 2 remaining parts apart, and the wheels come off with circlips and axles in a nice easy way!

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Height adjustment slider

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This plate sits in the top half of the cleaner, and forms the motor holder AND the part that the recline latch latches onto to hold the machine upright

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2018, 11:26:58 pm »
This small pipe makes the suction appear by the brushroll, the hose plugs into it normally!

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Cord grommit removed

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The hook the hose rubber band is hooked onto removed

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Then it was all washed, dried, polished and ready for re-assembly!

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The apprentice was out helping

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Yellow hook back on!

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Internal duct back in

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Motor end plate back in

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Height adjustment slider in

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2018, 11:41:32 pm »
Rear wheels now! The axle pushes through the chassis and wheel. However, this circlip

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fits here

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And after dropping it 76 times it pops home! The recline latch pops in next

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Little rubber bung fitted

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Time to marry up the lower and upper chassis! On one side this metal bracket holds them together

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On the other side it's a boring plastic part!



Time to drop the motor in

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Clip the release pedal into the hood

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Which is a bit shiner now

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2018, 11:44:29 pm »
The furniture guard is fitted to the hood now

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Now we can fit the hood to the machine

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Time to fill in these holes now!

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Activator holders in

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Centre wheels in

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Activator re-assembled

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Which now spins buttery smooth!

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Fitted with a new belt

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Baseplate refitted

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2018, 11:47:17 pm »
Blockage cover fitted

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The suction duct from the motor got rubbered up

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Air pipe fitted

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And fitted to the machine, and the air valve wired up

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The tool/hose holder is fitted

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Then the inner skin is screwed down

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Internal diffuser came up nicely

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And then got hidden from view forever more

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Some brand new filters were obtained

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2018, 11:50:04 pm »
And the post filter is fitted

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Screw cover trim fitted

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Pre motor filters fitted

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The top end got wired up next, and the cable grommit fitted

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Bag door seal fitted

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Brand new bag fitted



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Then hidden away

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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2018, 11:55:20 pm »
Shiny

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Handle re-assembled and fitted

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Hose assembled

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And with the tools fitted, and a bit of a wax and buff to get my grubby prints off it, we have this!







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Which looks lovely! And it worked really well afterwards!


I even used it for a month! (Pre refurb actually, should have put this at the beginning of the thread!) It was really nice to use, tbh identical to the Turbopower 2 I used in 2017 but the longer hose made it alot nicer to use!


The lovely Mr HooverLux (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYshVt0Nxxh3xSedKlHwJw has this now, I gave it to him earlier in the year, along with the Dirt Devil featured at the start of the above video! He was very thrilled!

Thanks for reading!
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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2018, 09:03:15 pm »
very nice Sam its a dam shame we are all stuck with the pure power forever not the turbopower as it was so much better

good work anyway as always
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Re: Hoover Turbopower 3 U2876 - Refurbishment & Restoration!
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2018, 09:36:38 pm »
I know! Must admit I'm not particularly fond of the turbopower 2 but they don't half work well when in decent fettle!
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