I found out how the ring comes off one of these, slightly different to the others, the ring gear seems to come off with the planets, after removing the bearing roller pins.
Just levered it off with a pair of screw drivers/levers.
I then presed the rotor out. that is where it all went wrong. There does not seem to be a way to strip it without first drilling and tapping the rotor. The way I did I pressed it, the housing cracked and came away with the bearing and shaft. Nearing was held in with circlip that was in no way accessible. But of course you can only see that once it is too late. The rotor needs to be pulled out rather like the way one removes a brake drum on a car.
Crap design though, becaise if I had first pressed out the shaft,there is no way to them grab the rotor to withdraw it. It needs some holes drilled and tapped in to it to allow a puller to remove it
Rotor and magnets were all secure, but corroded, so I guess the noise was just tight clearance between stator and rotor and the corosion rubbing
probably scrapped a perfectly good motor, that with a good spray with WD40 and a high speed run would have cleaned itself
although the cracked off portion is a very good fit back in the housing, so possible a roughing of the edges and then filling the surrounsing cavity with DP420 may make a repair
Will try in the morning if I dont get called to work
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