looking at your picture, it seems like a normal "aquarium" pump. if its similar like the one i dissasembled years ago, the coil is completely sealed with hard glue (top part in the picture), opening it means breaking it, however the impeller/rotor/magnet part is totally exposed to water and can be separated from the sealed body easily. aquarium pump is meant to be submerged and very low suction power, even a slightess air (above water level) and it will fail to suck. see the lining there? i think you can separate the top and bottom part of the housing and look at the impeller inside and then can take it out. anyway, as you said, its not broken at all, so there's less reason trying to fix it now.