Crown Brush Lead Assembly Kit – CR116704

Crown builds this brush lead assembly kit to carry current from the carbon brushes to the terminal on the electric motors in its lift trucks, where the flexible copper lead flexes constantly as the brush wears down and rides the commutator. The kit supplies the lead and its connecting hardware as a matched set, so the electrical path from brush to circuit is renewed rather than pieced together from loose parts.

A brush lead is a wear item by design. The braided copper shunt fatigues from vibration and heat over thousands of running hours, and a frayed or broken lead starves the brush of current, which shows up as weak motor performance or intermittent operation before an outright failure. Replacing the lead assembly when the brushes are serviced keeps the motor circuit sound through the next brush interval.

This is a Crown part matched to the brush holders in Crown electric lift truck motors, so it drops into the assembly it was cataloged for without adapting terminals or splicing wire.