I had a very bad feeling that this issue was a duff battery. But was it? Or was it just alot of hair wrapped deep around the brushroll mechanism? Let's find out!
Brilliant info. Stripped back my head and it's working better than ever. Just make sure you get the correct alignment when putting the connections back on the motor. Suggest putting a marker pen line on the casing before unscrewing.
This was the exact problem with our ancient V6. Thanks! All I needed was to get add a Torx bit set to my tools for the T7 - all I had was a T10. Many thanks!
Thanks for a very good demonstration! This was the exact issue with our V6. I got as far as taking off the bits from the back but could not get past taking off the bits at the top of the brush head. Now I know it is possible and so easily possible, I should have the problem fixed; I now have the very distinct possibility of NOT throw away our V6!
Three comments 1, great content, my bearing seal was still in place but once popped off bearing was full of hair. Cleaned/greased and refitted cover. SORTED! 2, You kept wandering out of frame. Check framing and mark the limits on your work surface (preferably not carpet) 3, get some Sinex or something. I always use some decongestant before public speaking. Thanks for the info, saved me about £50 for a new motor head.
Great video. Thank you so much - fixed my issue!! Brushroll would start spinning and stop within a second - turned out there was a bunch of hair behind the main drive screw. Thanks again!
Had exactly the same problem. Follows you instructions and it's great again. Can't believe how much hair was in the bearing. Thanks for a good visit. My Dyson DC 59.is 9 years old still in the same battery which will do 15 mins still, fine for my little place. I have border collie dog so there's a lot of hair. I did have to rewire the head with external wire but is still works fine. Amazing what you can fix. Top video. Thanks
Awesome video. The spinning pin just snapped likely due to too much hidden hair and me forcing the roller when stuck. I just bought a secondhand head which in really bad condition but the spinning pin looks look. Now I need to just swap the parts over 😊
Nice, that's your issue fixed! I've stuck a drop of oil on them before, and the bearing itself is cheap to replace although the plastic centre that goes through it does like to snap.... qbonds together fine though!
my dyson v7 animal has been a pin in the rear over the 3-4 years i have had it. My cleaner cuts out on turbo. The brushes wear down so quick that i have had 3-4 replacements. The wheels wear down and they sent m,e a new head and both heads have stopped working because the wire that runs through the joint to power the head snapped as the gauge is sooooo small. I had to repair it yesterday.
Great vid, been tempted to strip it down b4 but your vid gave me confidence! Somehow I have lost the baseplate from near the brush, god knows how, so a new one on order.
Thanks for the great video Mr Beko , my 3year old V8 floor brush kept cutting out then stopped altogether (all the other attachments worked no problem) so I sent for a set of T 6-10 screwdrivers and set to . Lots of dust and fluff EVERYWHERE inside but nothing wrapped around the bit that turns the brush. Then noticed that it would go round if the brush was pushed hard against the connector on the hand held bit, but only when the floor brush was straight up !! So, wondering if it was a wiring problem, I started to follow the two wires from the terminals in the floor head, carefully taking off every cover I could see, and lo and behold !! the white wire was in two pieces right at the inside of the "elbow joint" of the floor head. I managed to pull down the top bit to create s bit of slack then spliced the two ends back together and put electrical insulation tape around it . VICTORY !! I would never have been able to even attempt this - (and put it back together) without this video . It is now working perfectly so thank you again .
Fantastic, pleased to hear you fixed it! I'd express caution and say the join may not last forever as the cable moves about in the pivoting join, but a scrap head with good loom won't be expensive to buy when the time comes!
Have 2 V7’s , the Motörhead on both stopped spinning , no clogs,. Dyson made it good by providing a new head and not even asking for the old one back. V7’s have better connectors than the V6’s , but the-wires used are very thin and brittle and will break if flexed back and forth which happens with use ( bad design and wire placement). I disassembled the heads on both machines and found that wires had snapped in the same place on both heads. One had both positive and negative wires broken. I soldered wires back together and sealed them with a heat shrink sleeve( that should also help protect them from future problems. Also, Dyson uses these crappy Phillips head screws that have a friking microscopic placement for your screwdriver to fit into, and is very easy to strip, and if you strip it , your pretty much screwed ( pardon the pun). If you strip the screw head trying to get it out your pretty much done other than breaking it apart, ( Hack, use a soldering iron to melt plastic around screw head to release piece, then once piece is removed you can use vice grips to remove screw, then just use a bigger screw to reassemble). So, I got a new head from Dyson , and repaired the two I had. They make it real hard to disassemble and repair. They will just give you a replacement, or if out of warranty, expect you to buy a replacement. Seems to me like a recall for this should be in place, as both my machines had the same issue, one machine was only 6 months old.
This enabled me to fix my daughters V6 standard head. However, much of what you did was out of shot so perhaps you should reshoot this one. One complaint is that you put the long screw back in the wrong place. There is no screw in that position, you never took it out from there. The long screw goes in the one hole which was still empty when you finished. It belongs in the hole near the twist fastener on the bottom brush plate.
Hello. I have exactly the same problem. I did not know about the T7 screw inside there. I will try taking out the T7 screw without dismantling the whole unit.
I've noticed that the black & white wires in the bend of the arm going to the floor head tend to snap. This stops the brushbar spinning completely. Best scenario is the bearing & spindle being clogged with hair (as in this video). I've never found the Johnson brushbar motor to have failed, not once. So annoying when the white or black wire snaps as it can't be joined without it being at risk of coming loose & failing again :(
Another great video Sam! Out of interest, what sort of grease/lubricant do you use on bearings for the likes a brush roll or are they okay for the life of the vacuum? Just wondered if it's worth doing on my V10 to keep it in good order or if I'll make something worse!
I only grease them when they dry out. I use bog standard general purpose grease, get a big tin of it for £5 from B&M, lasts years! I'd not do it on a bearing that doesnt need it, it'll be 3 or 4 years until a V10 needs it! I do DC41's now, and their what, 5ish years old now?
I would like to say thank you, but I can't. Only about a 3rd of what you did was actually in front of the camera. This will be the 1st time I have ever attempted to do anything like this so I really needed to see what you were doing. My problem with my V6 is exactly the same as this but I can't even attempt to be brave enough to look at it with comments like 'I have found something suitably lubricated'! What did you find?! Because I'll very likely need to find one too. I stopped watching with 6 mins to go because there wasn't any point any more because I couldn't see what I actually needed to do. Such a shame because I'm convinced it's the same problem. And now I have to go searching through other videos, wasting goodness knows how much more time when I'm so so busy as it is.
You made me correct this and film an updated version 100% in view. But I lubricated the inner brushroll drive cog bearing. Remove the two screws holding the rear sprung wheel and lift that out. Undo the quarter-lock for the rear baseplate and remove, remove the brushroll too. Undo the 4x corner screws and 1x long middle one. there's a very short screw inside the head just by the suction inlet. Lift the top silver cover off the head. Unplug the 2 wires to the motor and with a twist lift up and out. Remove the smaller screw holding the brushroll drive cog on and gently and evenly prise it off with a small screwdriver. Then pull all the hair out of the bearing. pop the dust cover off the bearing, remove more hair then fill with light oil, pop the cap back on, spin by hand and check it free's up and turns nicely then re-assemble. To test, just plug the motor back into the wires out of the head, plug the head remains into the machine and test. Hope this helps.
Very helpful video, thanks. Followed you step by step but unfortunately it didn't work for me. I reckon the motor that turns the brush has seized up :-(
15:30 Hello, I have a question about the motor belt. Is the belt suppose to have some stretch like a elastic band? Because I took my belt out and now I can’t put it back on and my belt has no stretch so it is super tight. If so, do you know where I can buy a new belt?
The brushroll belt? No it has no strech/tiny mild bit. The best way I've found is to loop it round the motor. Then you'll notice a flat on the side of the plastic bigger cog. Strech the belt over onto this flat then gently rotate the big cog and it should spin the belt on.
I've got the exact same issue with hair in the bearing (around 14:15), but can't for the life of me get the plastic helix off, how did you pull it off so easy? Need a bit of WD40 or something?
I've done it in other v6 videos. Pop the 3 little tabs at the top of the filter and the sock slides off the cage. Then Rinse the filter in water to get the worst off then throw the sock bit in the washing machine and it usually comes up like new!
The Dyson V6 has lost more of its value after christmas! There are tons of these poping up everywhere for sale. Everyone seems to have upgraded to V8 & above at the start of 2020. The V6s about appeared to be knackered now and Dyson has discontinued them.
Lol, your using a vacuum to clean a vacuum. Dysons’ are great but can’t really beat a full on corded machine. I’m a caretaker for a large apartment complex, and the Dyson cordless makes things 1000 times easier.
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Thanks for this. I found wedges and washers of hair and dirt all over the unit. Spot on for making this video.
Brilliant info. Stripped back my head and it's working better than ever. Just make sure you get the correct alignment when putting the connections back on the motor. Suggest putting a marker pen line on the casing before unscrewing.
This was the exact problem with our ancient V6. Thanks! All I needed was to get add a Torx bit set to my tools for the T7 - all I had was a T10. Many thanks!
Thanks for a very good demonstration! This was the exact issue with our V6. I got as far as taking off the bits from the back but could not get past taking off the bits at the top of the brush head. Now I know it is possible and so easily possible, I should have the problem fixed; I now have the very distinct possibility of NOT throw away our V6!
this fixed my brush bar, it was clogged with dust/dirt hair, I had a pulse on the brush for 2secs then stopped working. Thanks for the the video!
Three comments
1, great content, my bearing seal was still in place but once popped off bearing was full of hair. Cleaned/greased and refitted cover. SORTED!
2, You kept wandering out of frame. Check framing and mark the limits on your work surface (preferably not carpet)
3, get some Sinex or something. I always use some decongestant before public speaking.
Thanks for the info, saved me about £50 for a new motor head.
This was EXACTLY the problem with ours too! Thank you for helping us find the cause!!
Great video. Thank you so much - fixed my issue!! Brushroll would start spinning and stop within a second - turned out there was a bunch of hair behind the main drive screw. Thanks again!
I had the same issue. This vedio helpee me as well to solve the issue. Thanks very much
This was super helpful. Thanks for taking the time to be so thorough. 👍🏼🎉
Glad it helped!
Thanks very much for a simple to follow video. Works like a charm now.
Had exactly the same problem. Follows you instructions and it's great again. Can't believe how much hair was in the bearing. Thanks for a good visit. My Dyson DC 59.is 9 years old still in the same battery which will do 15 mins still, fine for my little place. I have border collie dog so there's a lot of hair. I did have to rewire the head with external wire but is still works fine. Amazing what you can fix. Top video. Thanks
Exactly the problem I had. You saved me over $100 thank you!!!
Thanks very much for this guide. Save me a lot of head scratching!
Thank you Beko1987. This was great help for getting the cordless going again. You are a saint.
Amazing ! Got the head fixed doing exactly this. The motor was clogged to hell. Thank you
Exactly the same issue with mine.. followed the steps.. bang on cheers mate.
Awesome video. The spinning pin just snapped likely due to too much hidden hair and me forcing the roller when stuck.
I just bought a secondhand head which in really bad condition but the spinning pin looks look.
Now I need to just swap the parts over 😊
Helped me fix my dyson, thank you!
The V7 I had from my church briefly also had cut-out issues. In the end, it was just clogged cyclones and center filter.
I had one in on Monday with exactly that issue! Right as rain now
Thanks, brush roller started and stopped after a short time, found lots of hair between the bearing and the roller drive, cleared and so far great
Nice, that's your issue fixed! I've stuck a drop of oil on them before, and the bearing itself is cheap to replace although the plastic centre that goes through it does like to snap.... qbonds together fine though!
thank you so much! you're video helped me fix this issue for my mum and she's very grateful too! :)
Great article, thanks so much!
Thanks for this video - mine had exactly the same issue. Now it's purring like a kitten!
This was amazingly helpful thanks!
my dyson v7 animal has been a pin in the rear over the 3-4 years i have had it.
My cleaner cuts out on turbo.
The brushes wear down so quick that i have had 3-4 replacements.
The wheels wear down and they sent m,e a new head
and both heads have stopped working because the wire that runs through the joint to power the head snapped as the gauge is sooooo small. I had to repair it yesterday.
Thanks - just fixed mine - load of hair in the bearing housing stopping the motor from turning.
Loved watching this helped me so much but also loved just loved the accent and all others
Awesome, glad it helped!
Thanks man, this let me fix my exact problem.
This will definitely help people maintain their machines and keep them going for longer.
Absolutely, will be a common issue as they age
Thank you for this, I fixed my machine that was having the same problem! Cheers!
Thank you this helped a lot!
Thanks sooooooo much for this. You helped fix my problem.
Would have been better if you were lined up in camera view. Frustrating when you worked off screen.
Sorry. There's other v6 repair videos on the playlist. I learnt from this video's issies a while ago, but it has still helped a number of people out 👍
Great vid, been tempted to strip it down b4 but your vid gave me confidence! Somehow I have lost the baseplate from near the brush, god knows how, so a new one on order.
Thanks for that, I learned a lot, didn't know they had a belt. That was cool.
People always say 'the belts broken', I doubt that little toothed belt will ever shred itself to pieces!
Thanks for the great video Mr Beko , my 3year old V8 floor brush kept cutting out then stopped altogether (all the other attachments worked no problem) so I sent for a set of T 6-10 screwdrivers and set to .
Lots of dust and fluff EVERYWHERE inside but nothing wrapped around the bit that turns the brush.
Then noticed that it would go round if the brush was pushed hard against the connector on the hand held bit, but only when the floor brush was straight up !!
So, wondering if it was a wiring problem, I started to follow the two wires from the terminals in the floor head, carefully taking off every cover I could see, and lo and behold !! the white wire was in two pieces right at the inside of the "elbow joint" of the floor head.
I managed to pull down the top bit to create s bit of slack then spliced the two ends back together and put electrical insulation tape around it . VICTORY !! I would never have been able to even attempt this - (and put it back together) without this video .
It is now working perfectly so thank you again .
Fantastic, pleased to hear you fixed it! I'd express caution and say the join may not last forever as the cable moves about in the pivoting join, but a scrap head with good loom won't be expensive to buy when the time comes!
Thanks very helpful
Have 2 V7’s , the Motörhead on both stopped spinning , no clogs,. Dyson made it good by providing a new head and not even asking for the old one back. V7’s have better connectors than the V6’s , but the-wires used are very thin and brittle and will break if flexed back and forth which happens with use ( bad design and wire placement).
I disassembled the heads on both machines and found that wires had snapped in the same place on both heads. One had both positive and negative wires broken.
I soldered wires back together and sealed them with a heat shrink sleeve( that should also help protect them from future problems.
Also, Dyson uses these crappy Phillips head screws that have a friking microscopic placement for your screwdriver to fit into, and is very easy to strip, and if you strip it , your pretty much screwed ( pardon the pun). If you strip the screw head trying to get it out your pretty much done other than breaking it apart, ( Hack, use a soldering iron to melt plastic around screw head to release piece, then once piece is removed you can use vice grips to remove screw, then just use a bigger screw to reassemble).
So, I got a new head from Dyson , and repaired the two I had.
They make it real hard to disassemble and repair. They will just give you a replacement, or if out of warranty, expect you to buy a replacement.
Seems to me like a recall for this should be in place, as both my machines had the same issue, one machine was only 6 months old.
Motorhead lol
This enabled me to fix my daughters V6 standard head. However, much of what you did was out of shot so perhaps you should reshoot this one. One complaint is that you put the long screw back in the wrong place. There is no screw in that position, you never took it out from there. The long screw goes in the one hole which was still empty when you finished. It belongs in the hole near the twist fastener on the bottom brush plate.
You sir are a fucking genius. Hair in the spinner was exactly my problem. Dyson said I needed a new Motörhead. You saved me over $100 thank you!!!
Hello. I have exactly the same problem. I did not know about the T7 screw inside there. I will try taking out the T7 screw without dismantling the whole unit.
Very useful and saved me $125 for a new head unit
That's great to hear, nice one!
I've noticed that the black & white wires in the bend of the arm going to the floor head tend to snap. This stops the brushbar spinning completely. Best scenario is the bearing & spindle being clogged with hair (as in this video). I've never found the Johnson brushbar motor to have failed, not once. So annoying when the white or black wire snaps as it can't be joined without it being at risk of coming loose & failing again :(
You sir are a steely eyed missile man. Thank you
Thanks. You just saved me £50. Especially with knowing the t7 screwdriver.
Hello mr beko another great fix just love it when you take everything to bits 👍🏻
Another great video Sam! Out of interest, what sort of grease/lubricant do you use on bearings for the likes a brush roll or are they okay for the life of the vacuum? Just wondered if it's worth doing on my V10 to keep it in good order or if I'll make something worse!
I only grease them when they dry out. I use bog standard general purpose grease, get a big tin of it for £5 from B&M, lasts years! I'd not do it on a bearing that doesnt need it, it'll be 3 or 4 years until a V10 needs it! I do DC41's now, and their what, 5ish years old now?
@@beko1987 Thanks Sam, I'll heed your advice and hold off for now then! 😁
I would like to say thank you, but I can't. Only about a 3rd of what you did was actually in front of the camera. This will be the 1st time I have ever attempted to do anything like this so I really needed to see what you were doing. My problem with my V6 is exactly the same as this but I can't even attempt to be brave enough to look at it with comments like 'I have found something suitably lubricated'! What did you find?! Because I'll very likely need to find one too. I stopped watching with 6 mins to go because there wasn't any point any more because I couldn't see what I actually needed to do. Such a shame because I'm convinced it's the same problem. And now I have to go searching through other videos, wasting goodness knows how much more time when I'm so so busy as it is.
You made me correct this and film an updated version 100% in view. But I lubricated the inner brushroll drive cog bearing. Remove the two screws holding the rear sprung wheel and lift that out. Undo the quarter-lock for the rear baseplate and remove, remove the brushroll too. Undo the 4x corner screws and 1x long middle one. there's a very short screw inside the head just by the suction inlet. Lift the top silver cover off the head. Unplug the 2 wires to the motor and with a twist lift up and out. Remove the smaller screw holding the brushroll drive cog on and gently and evenly prise it off with a small screwdriver. Then pull all the hair out of the bearing. pop the dust cover off the bearing, remove more hair then fill with light oil, pop the cap back on, spin by hand and check it free's up and turns nicely then re-assemble. To test, just plug the motor back into the wires out of the head, plug the head remains into the machine and test. Hope this helps.
Watch you vid you film every crucial bit out of shot!
Very helpful video, thanks. Followed you step by step but unfortunately it didn't work for me. I reckon the motor that turns the brush has seized up :-(
Does the motor itself spin when it's not connected to the belt?
15:30 Hello, I have a question about the motor belt. Is the belt suppose to have some stretch like a elastic band? Because I took my belt out and now I can’t put it back on and my belt has no stretch so it is super tight. If so, do you know where I can buy a new belt?
The brushroll belt? No it has no strech/tiny mild bit. The best way I've found is to loop it round the motor. Then you'll notice a flat on the side of the plastic bigger cog. Strech the belt over onto this flat then gently rotate the big cog and it should spin the belt on.
Yup that did the job! The power head was full on the wife's hair, in the bearing by the belt drive.
I did 2 last night! I reckon loads are on borrowed time!
@@beko1987 That spiral drive pin for the brush took some getting off, might be worth mentioning!
I've got the exact same issue with hair in the bearing (around 14:15), but can't for the life of me get the plastic helix off, how did you pull it off so easy? Need a bit of WD40 or something?
12:53 grip it with pliers and pull.
I just wish you had opened the filter on camera....
I've done it in other v6 videos. Pop the 3 little tabs at the top of the filter and the sock slides off the cage. Then Rinse the filter in water to get the worst off then throw the sock bit in the washing machine and it usually comes up like new!
Exactly the problem I have but your video is of the floor and not what you are doing. Did you edit at all?
What was going on kept getting out of shot!
The Dyson V6 has lost more of its value after christmas! There are tons of these poping up everywhere for sale. Everyone seems to have upgraded to V8 & above at the start of 2020. The V6s about appeared to be knackered now and Dyson has discontinued them.
This guy sounds exactly like I did after I completed the dismantling
Not on the carpet...
First, Good day to you Sam
Lol, your using a vacuum to clean a vacuum. Dysons’ are great but can’t really beat a full on corded machine. I’m a caretaker for a large apartment complex, and the Dyson cordless makes things 1000 times easier.
They have their place don't they! Their the best cordless you can buy billions of £££ on R&D shows, but their not replacements for a corded
At least have the camera on the work you're doing but nice one anyway.
Yea, I've been told that before. Check out my 2022 update v6 video in the Dyson playlist for a more in shot attempt 👍📹
Please get your nose sorted out, septoplasty or turbinoplasty or whatever it is you need
A lot of your demonstrstion is out of camera range.
How are u ok mate I hop are u hove a great day mate am are u dong good mate hove a great day mate