Got a new motor at Menard's.
When I removed the old one, I took it apart. No burns or scars on the stator from bad bearings.
The ball bearing races where sticky, felt gummy.
Brushes them with mineral spirits and let it soak, then spritzed the bearings with brake cleaner. After a few minutes of working them, they
loosened and were spinning like a top. Put some thinned Dexron, Mobile 1 mix on them and reassembled.
Runs like a champ. Going to take the motor back.
The new motor has a 1" stack, 1.4 amp, 300 rpm.
What I don't like about it is the 6-32 thread. Probably work, but the current motor has beefy 8-32 studs, and four of them as opposed to only two 6-32 on the new one.
Shiloh