This might be the best DC39 video on CZcams. Thanks very much for walking us through the disassembly. I was stuck for hours, trying to get the spring of the reel engaged properly, it will be easier this time!
Thanks Maik. I just couldn't figure out how to replace the Hepa filter until I watched this. They don't make it easy at Dyson for people trying to repair rather than throw away. Much appreciated, Jay
This video was fantastic. My exact same issue. Lesson learned...watch to end first!! We disassembled the entire machine and had words with the cord rewind spring upon reassembly. It won in the end, but we replaced the plug and the machine works! Cord rewind is secondary.... problem for another day. Thanks again brother.
I had the same problem. I wish I had fast forwarded to the end of the video to realize it instead of ordering a new motor (I read 115v at the motor connections, but I never checked the plug continuity. My mistake.) I never could get the plastic tabs on the sides to release the top. Luckily I didn’t have to in order to replace the plug end. Thanks!
Oh my yes. Same here. And see those two white plastic arms that just fall out of the cable spool assembly? That's part of the fun. After 45 minutes, I got the cord reel put back together... only to have the spring fall apart once again. Four beers later, the whole vacuum cleaner is reassembled, spring on the cord spool was working great but once the full vacuum is put together the spring wasn't tight enough to pull in the power cord. I decided to live with it.
Today I learned to reassemble the cord reel, much easier to remove the spring from the top enclosure, get it started on the cord reel hub, then with the spring attached to the lower portion, get the spring back on its place in the to section, then get the whole sandwich back together. And after that six hours of work... Nope. The reel isn't pulling enough to retract the cord once the whole vacuum is reassembled. There's still some extra friction that I haven't figured out. Beer...
I had the exact same problem - a bad power cord. Would have been a 5 minute repair if I had watched this video all the way through before taking it all apart.
Thanks, people do not understand how much work it is just to make a video no mather what u overhaul. It is really funny your cable plug wire was faulty and you dissembled the dyson for nothing. Well not nothing !!! Every Dyson that we can repair is less garbidge, i just found a DC08 at the dump recycle street here in the Netherlands. I cleaned it and man o man it was dirty and smelly. But is is still working good, some new filters and now i have 2 of them. When one can dryafter cleaning the other one gets to work.
Taking it apart is no problem after watching this if you have the tools ...the problem is putting it back 😅😅😅we ended up putting the whole lot in the bin ... heheheh
hi when you got right down into the clear plastic thing with two cables attached to it and copper on the outside of it you didn't say how to disconnect the wires . my white cable burned from top to toe so needs replacing I'm replacing the yolk cable assembly but it attaches to the cables I'm talking about . are those cables able to be changed along with the yolk cable wire assembly. thank you
sound like you have something stuck in the flexible tube under filter element - some times its hard to see. take the filter part off, take all the tubes off and look in there
Maik, one question concerning the reassembly of the spring mechanism for the cable rewind: When attaching the spring to the small nib on the main cylinder, on which you have to roll up the cable, the natural curving of the spring has to be looking away from the cylinder, so that you have to force the spring to be curved into the opposite direction of its natural curving to create the required suspense for rewinding, right?
has been a while, i remember i had to do it twice. but i think you got it right - give the spring some good preload, otherwise the cable does not roll up all the way...
@@diystuff5483 Thanks a lot for your quick help, Maik! I really appreciate it. I managed to install the spring again and twisted the cylinder almost 2 full turns for the starting position, in which the cable is fully furled to give it more preload. The frustrating thing with it is, that it works perfectly with furling the cable as long as I don´t attach the bottom body part of the plastic cover. With just the upper part installed it still works, but I guess when mounting the lower half of the cover, it produces a little bit more pressure to the inner system, which is high enough to add so much friction between the twisting parts of the rewind, that the resistance prevents the rewind to pull the cable :(
How did you unhook the white tabs on the sides when removing the top? I have jammed, wiggled, and pushed with a screw driver and I can't get it unhooked
There's a Philips screw at the back, just above the cable entry, that also needs to be removed which he doesn't tell you about. Getting the white clips back in after is something I haven't managed yet!
You have to use a large flathead screwdriver and push it in perpendicular to the tab and smack it firmly with the palm of your hand to pop it loose do that on both sides and it will release
@@Harry-sv2qrMe too. I've just replaced the motor and HEPA filter in my DC39 and can't get the two tabs on the side to engage when reassembling. Do you know if it's ok to use it like this with just the screws holding the top and bottom together? Thanks
There is a white arch shaped plastic arm that appears in the video @11:50. Where did that come from?? I'm trying to put one back together and I'm stuck. I don't see where you removed that. It just magically appears in the video.
Actually I just figured it out. There are 2 and they sit on the black part of the cord reel. You can see the 2nd one fall out @12:56. THANKS for the UL. This was very helpful!
i had to watch it again to remember- has been a while - that a locking arm, spring loaded. its basically locking rotation in one direction - if yours did not fall out it must be in place
@@diystuff5483 Both of mine had fallen out and I couldn't figure out where they came from until I saw the second one fall out later in the video. Thanks again, this helped big time!
Jesus Christ I never knew these had hepa filters I had a dc39 some years back gave it away after buying a bagged machine instead just too much of a pain having to clean all of it bagged is so much more hygienic
Not to be done by a non electrical engineer! Also the manufacturer [warranty] dissuede's against disassmbly. Only technically qualified persons may do what you've done. This is not for the novice who simply wants to find out why the suction has gone.
Man you were my life saver - I was really struggling with that filter removal, but your instructions helped me to replace that along with the motor
This might be the best DC39 video on CZcams. Thanks very much for walking us through the disassembly. I was stuck for hours, trying to get the spring of the reel engaged properly, it will be easier this time!
Thanks Maik. I just couldn't figure out how to replace the Hepa filter until I watched this. They don't make it easy at Dyson for people trying to repair rather than throw away. Much appreciated, Jay
This video was fantastic. My exact same issue. Lesson learned...watch to end first!! We disassembled the entire machine and had words with the cord rewind spring upon reassembly. It won in the end, but we replaced the plug and the machine works! Cord rewind is secondary.... problem for another day. Thanks again brother.
Thank you. Very helpful. Few get past the internal filters. I needed to get to the on/off switch.
Fantastic service thanks, my exact problem, but without your clip I couldn't have reached the centre to test the white wire. Excellent
I had the same problem. I wish I had fast forwarded to the end of the video to realize it instead of ordering a new motor (I read 115v at the motor connections, but I never checked the plug continuity. My mistake.) I never could get the plastic tabs on the sides to release the top. Luckily I didn’t have to in order to replace the plug end. Thanks!
Thank you! I was trying to replace the hepa filter after replacing a burned motor and couldn’t find instructions anywhere. This was super helpful
Woo-hoo! Thanks so much! My power cord was tangled inside and thanks to you I was able to disassemble and get the cord retractor working again !
Maik. Thank you very much! 👍👏👏😁
Thank you we need more people like you
Thanks a lot for a great video. It helped me to disassemble my Dyson without doing any damage. Weldone !!!
A great frustration is removed. I appreciate your willingness to guide others and share your knowledge.
Thank you!
Thx much! Getting the top handle off was stumping me. Saved me much frustration.
Cheers!
You sure did help me out ! Thanks too you my Dyson works again !!
It worked pretty well for my DC 37 too. Thank you 🙏🏻
Awesome! Just started to dismantle my dc37c for troubleshooting but couldn’t figure out how to get the top of the housing off.
Thank you
Thank you so much mate, you are a life saver
God’s work right here.
Your efforts are much appreciated.
I'd pay good money to watch you reassemble the cable return spring mechanism 🤣🤣. I gave up and bought the assembled cable return piece.
Oh my yes. Same here. And see those two white plastic arms that just fall out of the cable spool assembly? That's part of the fun. After 45 minutes, I got the cord reel put back together... only to have the spring fall apart once again. Four beers later, the whole vacuum cleaner is reassembled, spring on the cord spool was working great but once the full vacuum is put together the spring wasn't tight enough to pull in the power cord.
I decided to live with it.
Today I learned to reassemble the cord reel, much easier to remove the spring from the top enclosure, get it started on the cord reel hub, then with the spring attached to the lower portion, get the spring back on its place in the to section, then get the whole sandwich back together.
And after that six hours of work... Nope. The reel isn't pulling enough to retract the cord once the whole vacuum is reassembled. There's still some extra friction that I haven't figured out.
Beer...
I had the exact same problem - a bad power cord. Would have been a 5 minute repair if I had watched this video all the way through before taking it all apart.
Took about 4 Hours to completely disassemble and change the HEPA filter FTR.
hi thankt, do you know how to replace the grip? must i fully disamble the vacuum cleaner or only the 2 clips from the grip.?
Dissasembly is quite easy, reassembly is trickier
Thanks, people do not understand how much work it is just to make a video no mather what u overhaul. It is really funny your cable plug wire was faulty and you dissembled the dyson for nothing. Well not nothing !!! Every Dyson that we can repair is less garbidge, i just found a DC08 at the dump recycle street here in the Netherlands. I cleaned it and man o man it was dirty and smelly. But is is still working good, some new filters and now i have 2 of them. When one can dryafter cleaning the other one gets to work.
Taking it apart is no problem after watching this if you have the tools ...the problem is putting it back 😅😅😅we ended up putting the whole lot in the bin ... heheheh
hi when you got right down into the clear plastic thing with two cables attached to it and copper on the outside of it you didn't say how to disconnect the wires . my white cable burned from top to toe so needs replacing I'm replacing the yolk cable assembly but it attaches to the cables I'm talking about . are those cables able to be changed along with the yolk cable wire assembly. thank you
I watched this great video and agree it's one of the best, but my vacuum still has suction yet it makes a howling sound. What should I do?
sound like you have something stuck in the flexible tube under filter element - some times its hard to see. take the filter part off, take all the tubes off and look in there
Maik, one question concerning the reassembly of the spring mechanism for the cable rewind:
When attaching the spring to the small nib on the main cylinder, on which you have to roll up the cable, the natural curving of the spring has to be looking away from the cylinder, so that you have to force the spring to be curved into the opposite direction of its natural curving to create the required suspense for rewinding, right?
has been a while, i remember i had to do it twice. but i think you got it right - give the spring some good preload, otherwise the cable does not roll up all the way...
@@diystuff5483 Thanks a lot for your quick help, Maik! I really appreciate it.
I managed to install the spring again and twisted the cylinder almost 2 full turns for the starting position, in which the cable is fully furled to give it more preload.
The frustrating thing with it is, that it works perfectly with furling the cable as long as I don´t attach the bottom body part of the plastic cover. With just the upper part installed it still works, but I guess when mounting the lower half of the cover, it produces a little bit more pressure to the inner system, which is high enough to add so much friction between the twisting parts of the rewind, that the resistance prevents the rewind to pull the cable :(
Very good job. Goes through the whole tear down. Volume is very low, so turn everything up to hear the narration.
How did you unhook the white tabs on the sides when removing the top? I have jammed, wiggled, and pushed with a screw driver and I can't get it unhooked
There's a Philips screw at the back, just above the cable entry, that also needs to be removed which he doesn't tell you about. Getting the white clips back in after is something I haven't managed yet!
Candace Walton use a bigger flathead screwdriver, these are stubborn
You have to use a large flathead screwdriver and push it in perpendicular to the tab and smack it firmly with the palm of your hand to pop it loose do that on both sides and it will release
@@Harry-sv2qrMe too. I've just replaced the motor and HEPA filter in my DC39 and can't get the two tabs on the side to engage when reassembling. Do you know if it's ok to use it like this with just the screws holding the top and bottom together? Thanks
Why hold the camera in portrait ffs???
There is a white arch shaped plastic arm that appears in the video @11:50. Where did that come from?? I'm trying to put one back together and I'm stuck. I don't see where you removed that. It just magically appears in the video.
Actually I just figured it out. There are 2 and they sit on the black part of the cord reel. You can see the 2nd one fall out @12:56. THANKS for the UL. This was very helpful!
i had to watch it again to remember- has been a while - that a locking arm, spring loaded. its basically locking rotation in one direction - if yours did not fall out it must be in place
@@diystuff5483 Both of mine had fallen out and I couldn't figure out where they came from until I saw the second one fall out later in the video. Thanks again, this helped big time!
Jesus Christ I never knew these had hepa filters I had a dc39 some years back gave it away after buying a bagged machine instead just too much of a pain having to clean all of it bagged is so much more hygienic
I cannot get that long metal spring belt back on i don’t understand how it goes on to the clear switch or how to re-attach it to the cable reel
did you get it back on?
just saw that
@@diystuff5483 unfortunately no so right now the vaccum cannot pull the cable in and from What i can tell i dont think its possible to fix it
you have to load the spring in the opposite direction- means wind and hold it- took me 2 times to be successful
Is the Dyson still working today
it is
@@diystuff5483 Nice
Not to be done by a non electrical engineer! Also the manufacturer [warranty] dissuede's against disassmbly. Only technically qualified persons may do what you've done. This is not for the novice who simply wants to find out why the suction has gone.
What a piece of junk.