The permanent magnet mounted on the rotor of my ECM 2.3 3/4hp motor delaminated and a email to Genteq returned a "This is not a serviceable fail mode". I have read the other ECM threads here and saw mention of magnets separating from the rotor but I couldn't find anything as to whether this is actually repairable, and what adhesive could be used to fix it reliably. All the ferrite structural adhesives I have looked such as Loctite or Permabond are hard to find and usually are special order from vendors showing up on google. My question/s Is this fixable if care is taken to remove old adhesive and apply new? What adhesive is best for this one off thing and where can I get it easily? Is this a symptom of some other problem with perhaps the control module? Can I forget the whole thing and buy a X13 1hp motor and just replace the whole thing. My unit is five years old and 3 weeks out of warranty. AC guy said it would be $1200 to replace if he did it and $1000 if he just gave me the parts. Thank you, Matt

So last week my A/C stopped working, its a 1986 Bryant Furnace system. the blower motor would not shut off unless i threw breaker even turning off at thermostat did not work. So replaced thermostat, still same problem. So talked to an HVAC friend of mine and had me test circuit board, seemed to be bad so I replaced it with the upgraded model as mine was obsolete. I replaced it and everything ran fine for a day, the next day the outside A/C compressor stopped working and was humming. I just happened to tap on the outside breaker box for condensor and it kicked on...weird. So it ran fine that night, next day it stopped working again, so I turned off all power and pulled fuses and took to local hardware store to test, one fuse was bad so replaced both, however, new ones were 250V not 240V which HVAC friend said not a problem as AMP rating was same. So replaced and low and behold everything ran great for three days. Last night i came home from work and again A/C was not kicking on, condensor was kicking on but blower motor was not starting. I went to furnace to check it and when I opened panel where circuit board and blower motor are located on bottom it was warm inside, the circuit board was a little warm so I shut off all power, felt back side of blower motor and it was scalding hot. was very hard to turn fan blade. I figured motor was toast and wondering what the hell was going on replace one thing, next thing fails, replace that another thing fails, now it seems to me that the fuses outside would have nothing to do with the furnace inside. I pulled the motor out and it was very hard to turn by hand even after cooling down some 45 minutes later. I pulled motor apart and where the shaft enters the faceplate for the windings was the exact area where it was hard to turn. I also found at the bottom of the housing after pulling the shaft out, a bushing type washer that was broken in three pieces at bottom of housing, not sure if this was what caused it or broke from overheating. The furnace DOES NOT have a capacitor for the motor as I searched all over for one and found out that older model bryants did not have one. My worry is now do I replace the motor as in is truly the problem, obviously i have to but at what cost and will it fix the problem, do i put a capacitor on, if so how, and is my new circuit board ok or did that get toasted to from the motor overheating???? Im at a loss its sunday and 98 degrees out and its gonna be in upper 90's all week, very frustrated at this point and do not have the money to call a pro in right now or even in the near future as most in my area charge $120 just to look at my furnace. Any wise suggestions? Thank you ahead of time.[ATTACH]1910[/ATTACH][ATTACH]1911[/ATTACH][ATTACH]1912[/ATTACH][ATTACH]1913[/ATTACH][ATTACH]1914[/ATTACH][ATTACH]1915[/ATTACH]