I was given this Pit Boss smoker. The person who gave it to me said the auger started making noise. I didn't run it before cleaning it out to hear what noise it was making. After cleaning it out, it's sounds like this. Is this normal? It looks like it's feeding pellets OK.
by LetMeSeeYouLurk
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🤷 Mine certainly doesn’t sound like that, but if it ain’t broke?
Most smokers have plastic gears. These are probably grinding a little bit so you are hearing the motor struggle. You can buy a new motor on Amazon for 30 bucks if you’re handy.
It’ll probably run for a long while like that, but I would replace it if you’re going to do a really long cook.
Nothing like waking up to the box at 78 degrees, for an unknown length of time, to start thinking about how much money in wasted meat is worth risking your family’s health over. 🙂
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it fill your hopper the sound likely will go away. Don’t even have dust in there. Can’t cook 5 pellets at a time
My shit sounded like this recently, it was some leaves stuck on spiderweb and the fan below the pellet box was smacking the leaves 🤣