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Can't figure out how to get the belt around vacuum motor shaft

It doesn't seem to have a place to slip it over-- looks like a closed circuit on all sides. It's the eureka smart vac 4870K

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  • jimandjentow Jan 01, 2009

    It's not a beater bar issue. I removed the beater bar with no problems, and even looped the new vacuum belt over the beater bar, but it needs to also be hooked around the motor drive bar- but it literally has no place to hook the belt around. Instead of being like a sideways T, where you can slip the belt around one open side, it literally is like an H and there is no space to hook it. I see that several people are having this problem, but haven't seen an answer yet. You would probably have to own this vacuum to understand the issue, as it is difficult to explain. I tried to call customer service last night, but they are closed for the holidays! My machine is 2 months old, and I have no box, but am tempted to take it back to Walmart!

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I am assuming you are referring to the beater bar belt. You will either find a release lever on each side or a small screw and bar restraining the bearing that holds the bar in place. Removing whichever of these you find will allow you to install the new belt. Clean up the dirt accumulation on the bearings while it is apart.

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