Back on the ROAD!

Quest for an Electric Porsche Boxster.

Finally back on the road today after a lot of work. Netgain diagnosed a fan failure and sent us a new fan. We tried to follow instructions, but the fan is so tightly fixed to the shaft, we broke the replacement fan trying to install it incorrectly. We paid for another fan, about $240, and used a PVC pipe over the motor shaft, with a 2x4 on top of the pipe, and a hammer on the 2x4 to force the fan onto the shaft. It took an hour of hammering, checking, hammering, etc. Finally got the fan on, reassembled and presto... IT SPUN UP! So, almost 4 weeks later and about 8 hours of work tearing down, fixing motor and reassembly. Back on the road!

If this happens to you, strongly consider sending back to Netgain for repairs, as if you break the fan you will have to pay for another and it will delay the repair by at least a week. If you repair it yourself, DO NOT HAMMER ON THE OUTER RIM OF THE FAN. It will not work and the fan is very strong, but brittle like ceramic. IT WILL CRACK. Also be sure and remove as many fragments as possible using a powerful vacuum and forced air if available. We had a small fragment we missed and were worried it caused some damage. Had to take the fan grate off and remove it. The fragment fell out, and it was fine afterwards with no damage to the new fan.