Wow, fate, thanks!
Do you pull the hoist ropes up and over the motor, so the motor will swing under the ropes, then out from behind the rail? I don't suppose you swing the motor out with the ropes still on the driver.....so you must be leaving them behind, right? Like, tied up with rope hitches, to keep them clear of the motor, and keep them in order, and tight in the undercar sheave grooves?
This particular motor got wet, due to direct water entry into the shaft. There is a design/build defect in the way the shaft was constructed, that alloed a lot of water to be sucked in by the motors' cooling fan, which blew it right into the motor windings. This happened almost a year ago, while the lawyers were looking into it, and even now after all this time, the motor still reads direct short to ground, all three phases, even with all field wires disconnected, right at the motor connection box. Definitely afu.
