Last Friday I bought ANOTHER forklift motor.
(Glove in photo for scale)
This was from a guy I met through CraigsList a while back with my "looking for parts" ad.
He had a Nissan forklift (a full-size sit down one!) with the hydraulics stripped off it sitting in his garage.
He had the smaller motors pulled off it, but they were too small for EV use. He also had a Miata for sale, which would make a cool conversion, but it needed way too much paint and body work to look nice.
At that time, the main traction motor was still bolted into the thing and there wasn't any way to see an ID plate on it.
This last week, I got an e-mail from him saying he got it off. I went over there and bought it. The main reason is that it has a REAL DRIVE SHAFT!!! A three inch long, one inch diameter drive shaft!!!!
This motor is huge and filthy. It needs major cleaning! It weighs more than I can lift.
It's a 10 inch diameter, do it should fit fine on the Metro transmission without getting in the way of the passenger wheel drive shaft.
The thing on the tail end of it is some sort of parking brake, which will of course be removed. There must be a tail shaft in there that could maybe be modified for a tachometer or some other use.
The motor is 10 diameter, 14 inches long (not including the parking brake section at the end) and weighs more than I can lift.
Yep, collecting forklift motors, another sure sign of insanity.
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