Last couple weeks the stove has been running like a champ since I got the vacuum set correct on the stove..had it runin* this morning and kept hearing a popin noise about evertime the augar would cycle.and then she just stopped dropping pellets so I ripped her apart I really didn’t find any smoking gun. The motor didn’t want to come off and when I got it freed up just found pellet as you can see in the photos. The bushing looks great for something that’s 25 plus years old the augar looks great I ran the motor on the work bench and it seemed to run okay I did noticed that it got warm pretty fast and I was trying to run it like it was in the stove with 3 second pulses. I don’t know if you should be able to turn the motor by hand but I can’t. So I figure it’s also 25 plus years old so I’m going to order a new motor and bushing plate while I have it torn apart..
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