Spirit Halloween Broken Lurching vampire

Doesn't lurch

[halloweeenhauntguy]

If you can hear the motor running, it should be an easy fix. I'd check to see if a belt needs to be replaced in the module. Good luck!

[mochanic]

The problem with almost all the Spirit animatronics is the garbage ass Chinese gearbox.  The smallest gear inside which only has 8 teeth rides on a 1.98mm shaft, but since the gear is so small and there is so little material between the shaft and the root of the gear, it causes the gear to split and thus it no longer turns the shaft.There are no replacement parts from Spirit, however you can replace the plastic gear with a brass gear, but even better is to through the whole gearbox away and replace it with an all metal gearbox that uses a worm gear drive rather than the stupid belt drive!  I get them from Aliexpress, however it's not a simple bolt on fix.