SG9120B motor near death

I thought my dish or mount had somehow shifted, because I was no longer receiving any satellite east of 53W. Nope Turns out the motor is somehow limiting itself to about 51W. There are no enabled limits on the STBs (I tried 3 different ones), but each time it reaches that point, the LED on the motor turns red. It will move anywhere west of there, but refuses to go east. I'm even more concerned because I tried to do the reset sequence (unhook the coaxial to the STB, press both buttons simultaneously, then reconnect the coaxial; release after five seconds of restoring power). The result was nothing. No reset at all (usually this procedure drives the motor to the "0" position and clears any weird thing in its memory). Fortunately, I don't watch much past 53W, but I would have like to have tried for 30W once the leaves fall off this winter ... plus I'm worried about a total freeze-up with no reset. I'm not so mechanically inclined -- I read where one member discovered a damaged spring inside the motor.

Recommendations? New motor (*whine*)? I heard the one I had was pretty good, but is there something better out there with USALS?

Yep, for sure. I used to be able to watch TBN Enlace on 50W and RASD TV on 45W. I'm not mechanically inclined, but if someone had pictures of the guts of a motor and could show me what the internal limit switches look like (I didn't even realize there were in there!), I'd be willing to give it a go.

Thanks to radio in MI, I now have a Powertech DG-380 with the large tube. Unfortunately, I had to make a run to Home Depot to get some bigger hardware to mount the dish to it -- but as I like to play around with the mini-BUD project from time to time, I think it's worth it. I was worried I'd never get it finished as I raced against the clock. Positioning it took just 20 mins or so. It was the disassembly of all the bits and pieces off the dish to get those longer carriage screws into place Finally, I was tracking the arc securely before the twilight disappeared *whew*

I'm still going to see if I can get the sg9120b working again.