My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

(09-09-2018 )pearce trucking Wrote:  Yes. I had to replace mine, and I took it apart and looked at it before I returned it for the core.
Its a fairly simple mechanism. There's a circuit board with a gear that is driven by it. Then two gears that the aforementioned gear drives, and they in turn drive the one that sticks out the bottom. All the grease was dried up on mine, and the bearings were pretty well seized. You shouldn't ruin anything by disassembling it carefully. You may get lucky and be able to loosen up the works. But I imagine that they're getting to the end of their useful life. Have you had any codes or boost issues with it before?

Any gaskets to worry about tearing? I pulled it off and sprayed some Amsoil MP up the gear bearing and the recessed idler and it seems to be a little quieter, but it's probably needs from fresh grease on things. It went through the install and cal process with no issues, and I filled the coolant.

Quote:Have you had any codes or boost issues with it before?

Well, on the bright side, no. But then again, as long as I've owned it, this truck has never made any boost, never used oil, and it's hasn't even used a drop of fuel lol.

Still not too sure about why the coolant/oil codes won't go away, unless it needs to run a cycle? I monitored the sensor data, and the oil temp did respond when I heated the block under the sensor, so it's not a sensor or wiring issue.