Faulty Cassette Motor Teardown

I have a look inside a the motor I replaced in the Marantz Cassette Deck

[MrSlipstreem]

You can make you're own u-clip out of a bent piece of wire (or a modified paperclip if you have one) to poke through the holes in the nylon motor backplate to hold the brushes back during reassembly. That's what they're there for. ;-)

[crr]

Thank you for the video.
I've had motors that had a plastic flange at the base of the commutator making it very difficult to get the brushes back in place, in that case I found it easier to pull the armature out and fit it to the end bell/brushes, I hold my finger over the hole of the top bearing and insert the armature then I can let the armature back into motor slowly, of course you have to remove the pulley from the shaft