How to replace the motor in a DC04 Dyson Vacuum Cleaner - Complete Guide 

Hahahahaha! Yes, Dysons I think were only ever meant to be put together. Taking them apart is a significant skill (if you want to avoid smashing up bits of plastic, especially when they get old and brittle!). I got hold of a cheap donor DC04 to refurbish mine, and when I went to remove things like the clips that hold the dust bucket onto the cyclone section, the donor cyclone pip that holds the clip on just shattered - I got a good clip and it clicked onto my machine very easily, it's the removal that gives you a dodgy heartbeat if you're trying to save both parts you're trying to separate. Fortunately I didn't care that I was trashing the donor cyclone, it's possible I'd have been more careful if it had been important, but it took me by surprise how easily it completely destroyed itself :o)

If you replace the clutch belts, which is a cheap job but very fiddly, get ready for some serious muscleage putting it back together, HAHAHAHA my old belts were TWICE the size of the new ones due to stretching - at one stage I thought I'd been sent the wrong belts, but then they'd been in use for goodness knows how many years, probably since the early days of the DC04 because we bought ours not long after they were launched and I haven't done the belts until now 2023 :o)

there is a plot twist about 1/3 of the way through...