Hey everyone, long time since I last posted, hope you’re all well.
I still have my Vanguard and the outer grub screws, that hold onto the shaft, have failed on one of my motors. I wanted to ride it this weekend at the Evolve Hog Hill event here in the UK. Is there any way I can just unplug the bad motor and re-run a normal motor detection? Or does it go deeper than that? I’m completely out of the loop (life happened), so I apologise if I’m being a noob. Thanks in advance!
Never tried this, what happens of you just try it out? Theoretically you should be fine.
Also why not just replace the grub screw?
I’ve put loctite on everything so I’m waiting for it all to dry 
…And I don’t want to destroy the Unity, or alike. I don’t know. Hopefully someone has experience? 
The threads have failed.
Dunno, there’s a super single fw for the unity, which utilizes both sides from the ESC on one motor. That’s a pretty different usecase to your problem though. I don’t see why connecting just one motor would destroy anything, though.
On the grub screw or the pulley?
Maytech used these pathetic grub screws on the motor cans themselves, to transfer the power through to the shaft - it’s these grub screws that have totally failed.
Yes, you can run one side, just make sure to tape/insulate the other 3 phase wires that are not connected to anything.
Now, i know you can do this using the unity FW on the focbox UI app, but not entirely sure on VESC tool
Thanks very much for confirming Linford! That’s fine, I still use the UI app as well. 
Oh your grub screws failed? How often do you forsee yourself removing the pulley in the future? If it’s gonna be permanent-ish, get some green loctite 638/648, clean the motor shaft and the inside of the pulley with alcohol, and smear a decent amount onto the pulley and that’ll be way stronger than grubs.
Ah ok gotcha. If you have the tools you could cut a new thread a number higher into the can. Should be no biggie.
I don’t have any thread cutting tools currently and don’t have time before tomorrow. But that is another option moving forwards… or maybe just upgrade both motors!
It’s the motor can grub screws unfortunately - they transfer the power through to the shaft.
Would be a shame to throw a perfectly good motor just because a thread has failed. But yeah, I get the time constrains. If I were you I’d just visit my local home improvement store, because hill climb on a single motor is not going to be fun. 
Yes u can, even on 23.46 fw
I’ve done it on a xenith without issue.