I dug into the diverter last night and did not find what I was expecting. I will post pictures. The newer truck I had when you took the outside casing off you were exposed to the barrel of the diverter itself when I took the casing off of the 2004 6008 FMI model I was looking at an enclosed barrell. I did grease the jerk of the barrel arm and it took a good 5 squirts of grease however the only way I could see to get into the actual barrel was to disassemble the entire diverter/muffler assembly and my intuition told me that on this model that wouldn' be necessary. The diverter had only stuck one time in my test runs so I think by greasing the barrel arm that this will fix that problem. Anyone with more experience with this diverter please let me know if I am missing something here.
Talk to Ian. His old truck had that same diverted. You have to pull the pin out. The diverted you have will require more maintenance. If you have the money you should consider purchasing a new diverter. Dave Posted via Mobile Device
BLewis, That diverter is a plague. I have the same one, and Vortex has never done anything to help me with it. I pulled the pin out of the control arm, or actuator, or whatever you want to call it. The arm still moves when it feels like it, but without the pin it does nothing to the diverter. I use a rubber bungee strap to keep the diverter closed when cleaning, and open when driving. If you forget to keep it open when driving, you will spew out all the heating oil. Everything else works just the same, you just have to operate the diverter manually. Good luck, I've been dealing with the inferior design of Vortex fab for 5 years, and I'm NOT impressed.
In the long run you would be much happier to call Chuck at BLUEline and order a new one with the new designed valve. It will cause you less head aches in the future. He also can get you grease that does not degrade and good to temps up to 1200 degrees.
Ok, so in the past Jim Martin has made fun of me for being old and dumb on separate occasions, and maybe some other random ribbing now and then. But he sent me a kick butt IM about these Vortex diverters, and what it takes to keep them up and running. So I'd like to offer up a big public "Thanks" to Jim for taking the time to take photos and provide detailed captions about these crazy diverters. Thanks, Jim, you're alright in my book!
