Thanks for the video. Currently that part was listed at $50. The whole cleaner head assembly was $89 from Dyson, so I went that route instead.

I bought off the link and followed the video. Perfect! works like new again. Thanks to you and the eBay seller, who was super helpful!

Many thanks for the excellent video, very helpful. I had ordered the replacement gear, but was stuck trying to get the housing open to replace it. All fixed and running now. Much appreciated.

Yes thank you for creating this video, mine broke and I almost ordered the spindles ONLY not realizing that the gear behind is the one you need to replace along with a new belt. Very informative

Great video! I ran into exactly the same issue. But I tried the Dyson service store first, they replaced a new vacuum head for free...I recommend to try them first before to do the diy based of this video!

Great tutorial, saved me from buying a new cleaning head. Thanks for a great video!

Gene Wahl

Thanks! You've save me about $100. You looked to be doing this real time, so my hats off to you. To help others, at

excellent video and excellent master , thank you very much ......

Thank you, this video saved me a few £!

OMG...THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO because I have been driving my self nuts trying to figure out what is supposed to be what....and what is wrong and how to get it all apart!!! I have the exact same problem...and no manual. I never would have been able to put it all back together without your video...BUT.....I am still stuck at the part, that I forgot, how to connect the two parts back together and there is a lighter gray half circle clip maybe that I have off from some place and can't remember where that goes and how. I did not see one in your video. It either goes on the main vacuum part or the main brush part somewhere where the two meet.

I left the gear drive housing together and drilled through the parts with 1/8" drill and tapped the holes for the bolt I used to hold the reassembled drive together. Ground the bolt head down till it fit in the brush drive cavity. Make sure to stay centered when drilling. If you fail, just buy the new gear assembly. Make sure you thread the bolt in from the side that will "tighten" if a brush would jam. That way, you do not need a nut on the bolt and it just needs to be long enough to reach the far cavity.

спасибо отремонтировал , вселили надежду

AWSOME video!

This issue happens all the time on my Dyson Ball vacuum. The spindle axle should not brake/shear this way, especially on a high-end brand such as Dyson, this easily. Dyson's first mistake was making design/engineering decision to use plastic as the material for this part instead of metal. This alone is a justification to stay clear of these specific models of Dyson product.

This part is built to be broken :)

I'm getting a dc65 animal tomorrow from Facebook hopefully I don't have to do much repair wise I'm hoping that the head and everything works perfectly I think mine will just need cleaned (update) I got the dc65 and it turned out it just needed cleaned so I cleaned it up and it works like new now

Thanks same problem I just ran into.

Thanks for this it was the only one i could find that opened up the belt-motor housing. I also got a replacement spindle too but it took so long to get I forgot what the spring was for. From your video i could see around

Great video! Helped me to disassemble.