355 Secondary Air Pump Project Part# 165903

Greetings "Stooges"
I'm starting a new project to repair/remediate the Secondary Air Pump Project Part# 165903

Background.

My Air Pump has stopped working and my friend @yelcab has a solution here that he was able to make work for the F355. I got the replacement part from him, and it was cheap at around $100. The problem is, that the area where it would need to be custom mounted is far too small to add it in. I might still go that route if this project fails, but I thought I would post here my journey for posterity.

So, I just bought an old broken pump from my other friend Stefan from redbayparts (a site I highly recommend)

What I'm going to do is take it apart and see if I can somehow install a new motor, or jury rig it somehow.

By the way, it's a total PITA to take the pump out of a 456M - I'm taking it to a lift as there are 3 screws on the bottom mounting it to the chassis that I can't get out from the top.

More to come.
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By the way, while I know this is just for emissions, I've read (not sure if true) that this may have detrimental effects on performance, definitely smog. I have a pesky check engine light code (bad o2 sensor passenger side) that I thought was related to a bad cat (could still be the case), I thought I might as well get this sorted first, and see what happens. If this works, my next step is to get the cat recorded (already have 2 brand new O2 sensors installed)
If neither works, bad ECU?

Cheers