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Medusa Motor Literally Ripped The Can
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Medusa Motor Literally Ripped The Can - 09.27.2009, 07:36 PM

I just found out my Medusa motor literally is torn. The can is ripped at the rear near the wires. Not sure how this happened. I was doing some normal running and I turned a bit sharp at around 25 MPH and my truck got some side traction and flipped/cart wheeled once and landed upside down. I went to flip it back over and gave it some throttle and the tires didn't move. So I brought it inside and found out the shaft had broken off somehow. Just took the motor out of the truck today to get some pics, and noticed the can was torn! I have never seen or heard of this happening before. I must have been doing something seriously wrong to make this happen! Maybe the can had very tiny stress cracks in it in that area already, and this impact from the flip/cartwheel was just enough to rip it open? Anyway, here are the damage pics -













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