The Siemens motor is dead. Well, the output shaft anyway. Too many amps? The splined end broke off entirely. So this is a good excuse to upgrade to Tesla, with the amazing Openinverter board (that has my name on it, as I helped a little with the final design -- cool!).

A few pictures below, just to get started. Drove to Sacramento to get a rear drive unit from Calimotive. With the board, and then some half axles from Zero-EV (which will take a month to get here) I should be able to make this work. 

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    Just before raising for dry fit.

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    It will fit perfectly, I think.

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    The Tesla logic board -- will be replaced with the Openinverter board.

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    The Openinverter board! 

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    And my name is on the board. (I helped a bit.) Thanks Johannes!

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    Removing solder from the current sensors, then installing the board.

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    Yikes. The Siemens motor, now useless.  

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