6045 help please

goreefers

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I took down 2 of my Tunze 6045 to clean this afternoon, and I lost one of the metal spacer (it attached the end of the drive unit), I think it's called "Disc for drive" Can I still use powerhead without it and is it safe? anyone know where I can find the part for this powerhead.

thanks
 
Actually this would be an older pump, the best course would be to upgrade the disk to 6025.740 as Shawn said, but also the drive unit 6025.700. The plastic has changed so the metal disk is no longer needed. This makes the pumps quieter. This change happened a bit over 2 years ago. It is not an emergency, the only issue on the old pumps run without the metal disk is the softer plastic trapped grit and acted like a sanding wheel and ground down the base of the drive unit, this takes a few months in even the worst conditions.
 
I received the Drive unit (6025.700) and Disc for drive (6025.740) for both of my 6045 from Tunze last week, and I replaced the Drive unit (6025.700) and Disc for drive (6025.740) for both of my 6045 today. And both of them give me the similar problems. Both of them were running normally at the beginning for about a minute, then one of them started to make a very loud noise, a few seconds later, the other one also did the same. It appears that both of the drive units were losing their balance and were waving (seemed like they were about to fly out from the unit). So I stopped them to see what happened, after openning them up, the metal stick/pin was not attached to the motor, but it attached to the Drive unit instead. Is this normal? I put both of them back to try it again, then both of them acted the same way. What did I do wrong? I put the Disc for drive onto the metal stick/pin first then the Drive unit over it (the Disc for drive was under the Drive unit), am I doing this correctly? The only difference I saw is that the new Disc for Drive part (6025.740) is substaintially thicker than my old one, is this causing the problem? please help. thank you!
 
The metal shaft must remain firmly and permanently in the motor, it is part of the motor blocks. In some cases it can be pressed back into the pump, it should never be forcibly pulled out of the pump. If the shaft cannot be reinserted firmly, the motor is ruined and the only repair is to replace the motor. The new disks are thicker, this helps reduce noise. The key issue is the shafts, how old are the pumps and did you pull them out or did they just come out?
 
Roger, thank you for responding to my questions so quickly. I tried to reinsert the metal shaft into the motor for both of them, one fit more firmly than the other (but both of them still not fit very securely). But after restart them, I have the same issues. I have both of them sine last december, both of them were never give me any problems. I did not pull to force the metal shafts out from the motor, both of the metal shafts were attached to the Drive unit when I pulled out the Drive unit. Roger, I like my tunze alot, is that anything else I can try in order to fix them. thanks again. Jack
 
Thanks Roger. I willl send them to you. Do I send in the motor unit only or with everything else (for example, Drive unit, Disc for drive, magnet holder, clamp and the propeller housing). Please let me know. thanks
 
Send the pump complete, I don't need the clamp or magnet holder but the whole pump with cover and propeller. We may have to change these pieces as well as the pump maybe older stock and not have the most current parts and old and new parts don't fit particularly well, these pumps had many revisions in mid to late 2007 and this included the fit of the covers and propeller.
 
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