Splitting motor from Hydraulic Pump on log- splitter

TomOnBoard

I have an old Powercraft electric hydraulic Logsplitter that I bought in Lidl. I also have a spare for parts.

My original one got flooded last year and I'd left it aside when it wouldn't work afterwards. I have now established that the electric motor is toast- full of water and rusty as be-damned. I have a good motor on the spare that I want to transfer. When I was checking out the bad one, it was held on to the housing for the hydraulic pump by three 8mm screw-bolts that removed easily. However, removing the actual motor from the hydraulic housing was an absolute nightmare! I got it removed eventually using a lot of brute force and ignorance.

Now when I went to the spare, the 3 holding screw-bolts removed easily. I was able to move the motor about 1-2 mm out from the housing then it stuck. I don't want to use the same level of brute force and ignorance on this motor as I bent the shaft of the old one while removing it.

Is there a trick to removing these type of motors that I might use? I suspect a steady pull, with slowly increasing force would split it, but setting that up would be a bit tricky.

Any help/advice appreciated.

biblio

TomOnBoard wrote: »

I have an old Powercraft electric hydraulic Logsplitter that I bought in Lidl. I also have a spare for parts.

My original one got flooded last year and I'd left it aside when it wouldn't work afterwards. I have now established that the electric motor is toast- full of water and rusty as be-damned. I have a good motor on the spare that I want to transfer. When I was checking out the bad one, it was held on to the housing for the hydraulic pump by three 8mm screw-bolts that removed easily. However, removing the actual motor from the hydraulic housing was an absolute nightmare! I got it removed eventually using a lot of brute force and ignorance.

Now when I went to the spare, the 3 holding screw-bolts removed easily. I was able to move the motor about 1-2 mm out from the housing then it stuck. I don't want to use the same level of brute force and ignorance on this motor as I bent the shaft of the old one while removing it.

Is there a trick to removing these type of motors that I might use? I suspect a steady pull, with slowly increasing force would split it, but setting that up would be a bit tricky.

Any help/advice appreciated.

Remove the motor fan cover and try attaching a slide hammer to the protruding motor shaft.
You may have to drill and tap the motor shaft to attach the puller/slide hammer.
Or could you swop over the good motor and hydraulic unit as one unit to the splitter body