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.

IH784man

Bearing pullers sound like the tool you need

TomOnBoard

IH784man wrote: »

Bearing pullers sound like the tool you need

I have bearing pullers and can see how they would be useful to pull something off a central stud or shaft of some kind. In this case, I'm trying to pull the complete unit out of a socket, so as far as I can see, I'd need to get something into the gap between the motor and the housing and push the motor away from that housing. I'm afraid I'm stumped on this right now.

Nekarsulm

Is there a grub screw holding the pump onto the shaft?

A photo would be great.