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Originally Posted by deves2
still no luck??? odd that there is at least 2 different style (models) of the actuator. I didnt know that. I mentioned earlier about cleaning the old yellow grease of the units. every pic of yours still has it on. When I did mine out of desperation when nothing I did helped it to spin i cleaned ALL the yellow grease and it worked. coincidence?? I dont know but everything else on mine stayed the same and after cleaning the yellow crap out it worked fine and has continued to work. That shaft can be straightened but do it carefully. keep posting results
good luck
dave
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I didn't clean the contact grease on the main gear, because I wanted test the motor first. There is a thread somewhere that explains which wires to jump and provide power to. The contacts on the main gear were also being jumped.
I didn't even try to bench test the one with the bent armature since it didn't want to turn freely by hand. What would be a good way to straight straighten it without damaging?
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Originally Posted by 2TH4IST
Damn lucky to find that many elockers in the junkyard! 2nd is, make sure you are using a grease that isn't conductive. I don't know if moly lube is but I think it has graphite in it which is conductive. Have you ohmmed out the windings to see if there is a short? You can use a eraser to clean up the contacts as well.
Worse case is purchase a new actuator. And or double check the wiring truck side too.
Edit - how are the brushes? Most I've seen are shot/cracked/worn out.
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Yes, very lucky to find two actuators. However both a broken lol and were a major pia to remove from the donors.... So far I checked all my new wiring in the truck, wiring at actuator, windings on the armature, etc. On the first one, everything appears to be good. The brushes look good too, but I haven't cleaned them up with sandpaper or anything yet.
I will try cleaning off all the grease, to see if that works. But I doubt it since I was jumping the contacts on the gear side anyway. I do still have the actuator that came with my axle. Was hoping to get one of these junkyard actuators working though so I could just swap it right in.