Char-Lynn fixed!

I did it!

I went to the Eaton website and started looking at manuals for steering motors until I found something that looked similar. Read those instructions, modified them to apply to the 101, and got it done in about three minutes. Steers with one finger just like it ought to.

Hoping that by posting this someone will be able to search for it and I can help them out. Maybe I better write it down somewhere - my Halfheimers is in full swing...

You could write it down here and then we'd all know.

Now thats what i tell people who post about their Chal-Lynn problems just look up their site as they can help

Ok, what did you do to fix it?
Rick

Ok boys, here you go:

There is only one connection from the power side of the motor to the input side of it. That piece has a slot on one end that runs on a rolled pin and a gear on the other end. You take that piece out and set it on the table slot end down. You draw a line parallel to that slot on the other end from one side of the gear to the other. It needs to be point to point (or I guess you'd say tooth to tooth) across the top of that gear.

When you install the whole shmutz together you drop that piece down in the motor and make sure it is mated with that roll pin. Then install what they call the gerotor (the star gear piece), making sure that the line you drew on that gear top sits right at the bottom of a valley between two points of the star.

Nothing else in there matters. It was so simple I thought that would never do it, but that thing works perfect. I was just sure everything in there need Ed to be "just so", but that one little thing is all that does it.

I saved the instructions that were closest and can email them to folks. I'm sure this stuff used to be common knowledge, but that was 60 years ago.

That was fun to type on my phone. Just for you, boys, just for you!

Get the iphone 4s or later and you just speak and it writes.

Please tell me this. If that is all you did to fix the unit, what caused it to get out of position? Or did you maybe remove a small piece of trash?