Hoover Turbopower Autoflex U2198 - Restoration and Rebuild.

[beko1987]

The front wheels can be assembled now, with some grease too to prevent re-corroding



Wheels fitted



Wheels retained



Time to fit the motor now, and a smear of washing up liquid/glass cleaner around the small rubber mount, then over the mating face of the large fan rubber mount. Pop the belt spindle end in first and push, the fancase side will slide easily into place ,it's a tight fit. Pop the big clamp on



Time to fit a back chassis. Refit the white recline bush (it only goes on one exact way)



Moar grease



And fit it all together



And clamp



Onto... the autoflex module!

[beko1987]

Our cable is lovely and clean and brown



We start the loop off through the donut



Then it went over the reel, and pulled together. The cord got fitted to the terminals and then the clamp, and adjusted so it sat correctly



Then I followed the service manual



(which does work well, it is fairly easy to do) to refit and tension the reel assembly





Cord brake stuff back together



Helps to hold the flex in place as you do this otherwise it shoots off into the cord reel and you have to tension it all over again!



Screw the 2 cord guide screws in

[beko1987]

Wire the (frankly far too modern) plug back on



And screw the autoflex assembly into place.



Bag compartment loom now





and hidden away!



Now, we can fit the trunnion cover to the rear chassis



and move onto the brushroll! Vibration washer in



Then new (non genuine) brushroll bearings



I found 2 brand new genuine plastic caps too

[beko1987]

Brushroll assembled







The belt was very worn, so I grabbed another one





Baseplate on



Height knob fitted



A smear of black silicone applied to the busted screw cover to make it less obvious



Handle back on

[beko1987]

The bag door latch can be fitted, and the bag door itself snapped onto new hinge brackets





Was then time for some detailing



I found some cracks whilst doing this though, so out with the glue!





And the wax to try and hide this huge scrape



I was finding it hard to sleep at night knowing there was a Dyson belt on this Hoover, so I found a genuine belt and a genuine bulb to replace the blown one



One last look under the hood

[beko1987]

Yup, that's better!





And the result of this extensive rebuild? It runs like a dream

Thanks for reading.

[MVacs]

Epic rebuild as ever. 

Is that one for the personal collection or a flogsie? What are they worth nowadays?

[beko1987]

Epic rebuild as ever. 

Is that one for the personal collection or a flogsie? What are they worth nowadays?

Neither, was a refurb job for another collector. One as minty as this one should be rights fetch a few hundred quid, tidy but basic U2332's are fetching £100 now.

I had the Red one that went alongside it (there's a refurb thread on it) and I sold that for £80 which was far too cheap but I needed rid of stuff fast etc.