Alright so I was able to get most of this done and it took me about an hour.
Unfortunately my camera was acting up so I didn't take that many pictures, but I'll explain it as much as I can.
After you remove pleo skin there is a top which cover which also needs to be removed. It's pretty straight forward you first have to unscrew the top black cover then you can move the front side of pleo's body forward. After you have enough room you can unscrew the top white cover. MAKE SURE YOU SAVE THE PARTS AND REMEMBER WHERE EACH SCREW GOES.
Most of the screws throughout the first are the same, but its still important to remember what goes where.
You will get to the first servo which is in the pictures I posted from the first post. Here they are again:
Now on the belo picture I've already remove some screws that held down the spring funnel for the wire:
Now these are of course the steps I took because both my wires where cut up.
I started off by peeling pleo's head skin back enough to remove the screw that hold his head onto his neck:
You'll notice that the cables are held down because of a metal piece at the end and it is melted into the plastic piece at the end of pleo's neck
What you have to do is first remove the top servo which controls the up and down movement before you can fix the left/right servo. I can see a problem here is if it is only the left/right cable ripped because it will be almost impossible to remove the servo without cutting the cable.
Another problem is the servo's motor cable cannot be disconnected so after you unscrew it it has to just kinda hang there. I'm sure you can probably trace it back and disconnected if you peel the entire skin and find the end, but I didn't want to do that.
So the top servo has enough slack for you to just leave it hanging off to the side, but the left/right servo is really in there.
First there is 2 screws on top holding it, but you also have to unscrew the servo from the bottom. Now I found that it wasn't too hard if you just unscrew his 2 front legs first, by unscrewing the 3 side screws that hold it down:
Now on the right side there are 2 screws holding the servor down. One on each side of his leg. On the left side there is only one screw.
After you remove the screws and try to pull the servo out you may accidentally rip the motor cables off like I did because of how short they are. (I soldered longer wires to the end then attached them back to the motor)
To tell you the truth it was a lot easier just letting the cable rip off then soldering it after I fixed the servo cable.
Ok so you pull the left/right servo out you can flip it over and remove the 3 bottom screws holding it together then open it up.
I recommed you note what gear goes where before and after you pry open the servo. It's kinda easy to put back together, but it can get confusing if you didn't pay any attention to where the gears where:
Now here is the fixing part. The servo has one gear that has the wire cable wrapped into it:
The cable has a small crimped piece of metal holding it in the middle.
What I did was use an x-acto knife to pull it out then the cable will go with it.
After that is the fun part which is pushing your cable through the small holes on the gear which is extremely annoying. After that you turn the gear and it back on the servo and push the cables out the plugs.
Another thing is make sure the gear is centered when putting it back together. The reason why is so that you can straighten out his neck and attach the cables while the servo is centered.
One thing you'll notice is I didn't add a crimped piece of metal like the original. What I did was wrap a small piece of clear tape around the top of the cable and pushed it back into the groove on the gear.
The cable I used was thicker than the original so it first tightly in the grooves and the tape allowed it to fit tightly on the top. I pulled at it a bunch of times and it would not move so I am pretty confident that it will hold.
This is a picture of the completed left/right servo:
After that make sure you put the spring funnel thing back onto the bottom of the motor. I put tape on mine to stop it from moving in the future just in case that tears the cable again.
Sorry this is where my camera started acting up. The top/bottom servo is pretty much the same and is actually a little bit easier, just make sure you have the bottom wire cable run through the picture above before you start or else you will need to pull the bottom servo back out to feed the wire through.
I do have one picture of the front cable on the servo:
Another thing is make sure you leave enough slack coming out to pleo's neck on each cable. I didn't check the cable on one of them and had to start over because the cable didn't reach the end of pleo's neck.
Now the last thing I have to do is attach the cables to the end of pleos neck. I did test it out though and turned pleo on after I reassembled everything and it pulled each end of the cables perfectly.
So what I did for now is crazy glue the cables back onto pleo's neck, but for some reason the servos do not move anymore. They moved at first, but then when I had to take it apart again to rerun the cables it stopped moving. I then waited for a day and they started moving again, but I realized the left/right cable was disconnected to I opened it up again to fix it and now they are not moving again. I strongly believe it has to do with the sensors that check the motors because the hip motor in the middle is also not moving and I think its because its not aligned or something.
This is probably my fault because I turned on pleo while the servo's where not seated where they should be.(I wanted to test it)
I connected to pleo using the monitor instructions in the PDK and the status for joint 8(hip), joint11(Neck1) and Joint12(Neck2) say they are stalled. Last time it just started working after a day of being off, but well see. If anyone has any idea's on why the motors just stalled I'm welcome to ideas on how to reset pleo and tell him to start over or something. I also noticed that another joint I think it was 7 stalled then returned to normal after a few minutes.
I think the motors are fine and the gears are fine, but its like pleo's brain thinks they are still stalled and will not try to move them again to check if they are ok now.
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