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You might ask: "Why don't you get the pup repaired?" "So that it sounds like my other Bicentennial?" would be my reply. I once had a TV-yellow*** EB-0 LP Junior Dave had gracefully sourced for me and it had this one of a kind mudbucker that had hardly any woof but sounded middish and slighty distorted. I liked that sound. Then one day it gave up on me and my luthier repaired what I only then learned was a faulty pick-up - of course it now sounds like any other of my myriad mudbuckers! 
So I'm sticking with my "broken" sidewinder until one day it will totally give up on me - makes me think of Dusty Hill who played for years on his beloved Tele Bass with a broken pup without realizing it, was dismayed about the sound change when it was repaired and then had "broken pups" custom-(badly)wound for himself! 
***There is an interesting story waiting to be told here, but Dave forbids it!
Weren't there some pickups from the current (since late 80s) TBird series that were split coil in a TB Plus housing? Didn't Mark post pics of an example once? Who knows, maybe they could have been made by PJ Marx.
It wouldn't hurt to have it looked at. If it turns out to be faulty, you wouldn't have to have it repaired.
As for your EB-0, you must be referring to the fact that it's a refin. I'm sure there are no other interesting stories about the color.
