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Stripped Throttle Body Gear

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2008 Gas V6 M/T, about 130K miles.  I bought it a little over a year ago.

 

I was driving on the highway for about an hour with no issues, as soon as I cut the cruise control off I got a bunch of warning lights and was in limp mode with no power, rough idle, etc.

 

Various codes related to the DBW system.  I poked around for a bit and found this stripped gear in the throttle body.  I bought a used throttle body with fewer miles and swapped that gear in to mine - I don't have any way to calibrate the the computer to the TB, so my thinking was that by only swapping that gear the calibration shouldn't change.  After disconnecting the battery for a while and restarting everything seems to be working great again.

 

I am wondering if anyone has seen this before and what might be the cause?  Is this a calibration issue, did the previous owner force the throttle plate open to clean it, is that gear a normal wear item, do these things ice up in certain conditions?  I am not sure.  My replacement had about half the mileage on it and showed no wear.  I did clean the TB while I had it out but it really wasn't that bad, certainly not sticking closed. 

 

The stripped portion of the gear is around the idle position.

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In case it helps someone with this problem in the future, the initial codes I got when it failed were:

 

P2103

P0638

P2100

P2101

 

Eventually a few others popped up:

 

P2123

P2126

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