I have spoke to the former ebike club president within the past week.
He said for liability reasons they disestablished in favor of the Sumter Landing bike club, slbikeclub.org. Ebikes are welcome there. They allow all classes of ebikes 1, 2 or 3. If you have a class 2 or 3 they ask that you only use pedal assist.
As far as rebuilding the battery pack there are places that do that. Personally, I would just add a rear rack and buy a penguin battery and use that over a proprietary battery pack. For that matter you probably have a penguin or bottle battery already. You can just remove and replace (no rebuild). If you splice in a pannier/ rack mounted battery you can just tap into the bikes Anderson powerpole or xt60 connectors.
In the future, use a cyclestator charger to charge your batter to 80% charge. Doing this will increase your charge cycles to over 1,600. This 'nearly full' charging is what electric cars use to get their batteries to last so long. Bike companies are not worried about that so they include a cheap 100% charger.
All that said if you want some help I'll see what I can do.
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