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Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 09:43:45 pm »
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The Electrolux 4x4 is a very rare vacuum cleaner. Born in the early 1990s as the top of the line cylinder cleaner, it did not sell well. I've never really seen one in real life...
So, naturally, I found myself with 2 of them!
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As you do. So, with a bit of tape on each to know which was which
We will concentrate on just one machine, although as usual all the best parts went into one, and the rest into the other.
Pop the tool door latch
Which is held on with two screws either side
And can then be removed
Made in the UK
Tools out now
At the time I was missing the dusting brush
Then the post motor filter cage comes off
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 09:50:57 pm »
Then the filter itself
Revealing that all was not too grubby
The bag door can be removed now by just pulling up and forwards and sliding the rails out
Which then just fall off
The bag compartment seal pulls off the underside of the lid
Inside the bag compartment we find this incorrect bag...
And 2 filters, which it is supposed to have as standard
Something has exploded somewhere along its history...
And it generally looks like a Dyson does after 43 seconds of use
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 09:54:31 pm »
Next out is the bag holder itself
Next, we can flip it over and remove the 4 screws
And take the top shell off
Time to strip the top shell
On/Off switch out
Then the control panel display cover unclips
The foam serving as to stop light bleed
The rubber parking grip pushes though too which will aid polishing
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 09:59:14 pm »
Now we can start unplugging things
And mark some of the pipes up just in case
These two help run the auto power setting
And pull out easily
This short one runs to the bag compartment to work the bag full light (this works on general air pressure rather than anything fancy, as I found out after using it to unclog a DC07 cyclone and killing the paper bag so much it came on and knocked the vac into low power to boot)
This black rubber hose runs off somewhere too
Seemingly to provide a tiny air feed to keep whatever is under this cover cool
Sit rep of the wires
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:02:56 pm »
And they can be removed. The three I am holding come from the motor, the two black from the cord reel
The brains can be lifted out now
mmmm early 90s PCB
Onto the cord reel now, and fun fact, this is the same cord rewind assembly as the Dolphin, but with the brake part removed...
It turns out the cord reel was not next out, as can be seen by the next image being of the ratings plate
Followed by the removal of the hose inlet part
Turns out those plastic pipes just fall out when removed
Leaving a little hole
Now we can remove the motor cover
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:08:33 pm »
Followed by another rubber seal
Now we can lift the cord reel out
And do battle with these
:censored:which hold the motor inner cover on, and their a right bastard to undo
And then there were still a couple of screws!
And voila, motor out
The rest of the internal air conditioning system comes out now, the pipe just goes into where the exhaust air of the motor is, infact thinking about it might be the overheat sensor, when the air through the pipe gets too hot it cuts the machine off...
Here we can see the hinges for the underside compartment
Which is used for holding spare bags, spare filters, drugs or pizza I guess
Then, all the wheels came off
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:13:55 pm »
This machine has been fettled before, I see glue on the bumper...
Off it came anyway! And we can extract the motor, starting with the rubber seal
Then the motor lifts out of another housing, no wonder this thing is quite quiet in use...
Big rubber holder at the back
The back of the fancase has this foam gasket
I also noticed this... one of the coil wires is cut, but the motor still runs perfectly...
Either way, not alot needs to be done to this motor, which is a dolphin one, in itself a version of the twin turbo motor, basically ancient but still plodding along at this point in time
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:17:23 pm »
At this point, one machine was done.
So I did the other one. And the things of note were:
It has its ducting brush, which was full of fluff, this was just a little bit
And only 2 wires going to the motor
One of which has seen crimp action before
twice
The other motor is removed and is completely different again!
Either way, it's onto the tools, and there is only one set of these... Hose has a rubber seal to come off its end
Then we can move up to the control panel
Which pops right out
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:20:11 pm »
The two AAA batteries were crap
Opened!
Empty
Made a note of where this thread goes, its for the control panel securing screw
Broken post on the handle assembly too
Hose end separated a bit more
With another seal
Wands now! The parking bracket slides right off
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:23:05 pm »
Then the outer button pops off
Then, by bending the locking tab out (which cracked the paint right up) the two halves pull apart
This plastic bush comes out of this part, it rides up and down the inside of the other half
The actual locking part can slide off now, once the metal pin is removed
Then one last sealing bush
Floor head now!
Fancy anti mark anti noise wheels there
Which all pop out
They were quite grubby
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:26:02 pm »
Inside the suction path was a bit grubby too...
The top cap pops off now
Then with swearing and some big plastic locking tabs the two halves can be seperated
The rubber blades push out from behind
Rear wheels pop out of the housing
And then it really was all apart!
Some washing and machine polishing occured
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:49:28 pm »
And voila, one exploded diagram
Floorhead first
Wheels went on with a lick of grease
Nice and clean ready for the rubber strips
Snapped together
I don't recommend dismantling these floor tools unless you have to (DC02 ones are the same), you do damage it a bit
But then it's not exactly immaculate anyway!
Comes up alright though
Blockage gone!
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:52:16 pm »
And clicked together
The felt wheel inserts perked up with a good scrubbing, it's silent now on the laminate!
And fitted
Wands next
The plastic inserts cleaned up nicely
Locking collar slid on
Locking pin replaced, with a tiny dab of grease, not much though or itll go on the wand
Release peg and its spring are fitted, again a swipe of oil on the moving surfaces
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:54:41 pm »
Push, bend, slip, swear, bend again, crack paint...
Then hide it all and pretend it never happened with the cover!
Useless parking bracket fitted
Hose now! Seal 1 on
Seal 2 and the start of the user end fitted
Broken screw peg glued back in
Remote assembled
And fresh batteries fitted
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Re: Electrolux Z4460 4x4 - Stripdown and Refurb
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September 16, 2019, 10:59:07 pm »
One side of the flimsy crap hand grip on!
Other side of the flimsy crap hand grip on, and the post cracked again so i just screwed the post onto the screw, then glued the post to the other side
Remote fitted
I'm sat here writing this now, remembering that my phone has an IR blaster in... I feel a plan forming!
Motor now, and I did nothing to these, so the foam gasket goes on first
Then the bottom holder
Then the first cover goes on
Then falls off again so fit the inner to the second layer then slide the motor in...
The other motor, so as not to feel left out looks like this
The furniture guard slides back on now and oh my god what an arse this is! You have to slide the whole thing on, mm by mm. WD40 speeds it up alot though...
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