# Foil Drive gen 1 motor problem
**URL:** https://foil.zone/t/foil-drive-gen-1-motor-problem/26856
**Category:** Build, Repair & Mod
**Created:** [July 21, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/foil-drive-gen-1-motor-problem/26856 "2026-07-21T23:04:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Dragonfly](https://foil.zone/u/Dragonfly)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://foil.zone/t/foil-drive-gen-1-motor-problem/26856/1 "2026-07-21T23:04:27Z")
My Gen 1 Foil Drive is on the Cedrus project integrated mast and I desync’d the ESC when the plugs became partially unplugged intermittently. It burned out my FD original ESC and I replaced the battery box and ESC with a Maytech 160 amp ESC and had to change remote and receiver to get voltage telemetry. It ran okay for a few weeks then suddenly started lost power and was growling every time I put in more than 23% power. AI said it was likely the bearings and I checked them and the bearings were a bit gritty and a tiny bit loose,
To get the rear bearing out I literally pried the nose off, pulling the metal threaded inserts out of the nose. I pushed the wires up the mast to all the rear half of the motor mount system to be removed but i can see two screws coming from the front through the stator base plate but the heads are not visible, apparently behind the sealed front surface of the mount. I plan to grind a hole through the glued in surface but don’t understand how this thing was made with the heads of the screws going forward and backward both being concealed,
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### Author:  [@sat\_be](https://foil.zone/u/sat_be)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2026, 7:14am UTC](https://foil.zone/t/foil-drive-gen-1-motor-problem/26856/2 "2026-07-22T07:14:58Z")
Maybe some pictures could help.
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### Author:  [@Dragonfly](https://foil.zone/u/Dragonfly)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2026, 8:24am UTC](https://foil.zone/t/foil-drive-gen-1-motor-problem/26856/3 "2026-07-22T08:24:58Z")
