I picked this up, its a used snowblower, its been sitting out in the weather for quite some time
and
I went through the whole snowblower and see what it needs
and it needs quite a bit of work
the engine does run
it need a spark plug, I put the plug in and lord behold it started right up
with the old gas that's in here
so I know the engine runs and it runs good
sounds strong
I don't really need to do much with the engine
but their is some work that needs to be done to this
snowblower
on the bottom half of this
this actually has tracks on it
so the tracks are frozen to the drive shaft
and a lot of stuff is just stuck
because their is so much rust build up
and it also needs the bearing
for the impeller
so I went to my buddy's house cause he's got
a ton of these things just sitting around his yard
cause he works on lawn mowers and stuff
and every now and then he picks these up
and I got some replacement parts
off another snowblower
that I believe will work
so now that I know the engine runs
we're going to stand this thing up on the front there
and get to work on the bottom half of this snowblower
now I know you probably can't see to well inside here
but
I've taken out the drive shaft
taken out one side of the tracks
the other side is still there on the ground
it needs a new friction disk
this is the one I picked up off another snowblower
taking this disk off
and we're going to put it on the shaft for this one
and then down there
it needs new bearing and I'm hoping this bearing will fit that bearing for the impeller
basically it's a lot of rust build up
so a lot of it is going to need some care
alright cleaning up some of these shafts and getting everything moving smoothly like it should
alright so first thing first
we're going to get this disk off of here
and now
moment of truth is to see if it fits on this side
beautiful, it's a perfect fit
sweet
alright so now we got to tighten these up
the way this works is to get your different gears
it slides
in different positions on that wheel
so we're going to do is take this shaft and clean it up on the wire brush
grease it all back up
cause its jamming up over here were the rust build up is
so let's go clean it up
put some grease on there
now it moves nice
let's get this back on
alright
now put the bushing back
screws
now we check
see if she shifts
got to be good right there
that is riding right on there were it is supposed to
put this back in
let's see
beautiful
cotter pin goes back in
now we put the bolt
in there
so the problem with the track is
it's all rusted on to the shaft
geez, look at the rust on that
ah sweet got that out
look at all that rust right there
that all has to be ground out of there
so this side is nice and free
it is actually moving like it should now
everything is good friction disk is in
all greased up
I had to put a new bearing here on this side of the shaft
so I took another trip to my buddy's house
and I grabbed a bearing I was able to make work on this here
so far so good
now I have to get this side of the track together
sprocket is in '
its all been cleaned
missing an adjuster lobe on this side so
I am not spending the money to replace it
beautiful
okay
so now that the track system is working
like it should
basically all I did on the track system
is tear it apart
inspect it as I went
and I cleaned it up
the biggest problem with the track system
was the
rust build up
on the drive shaft
and all the shafts for the sprockets and all that stuff
and the chains needed to be lubricated
they weren't frozen up yet
but they were looking pretty bad
I just put multi purpose grease on everything
after I cleaned it up
so the next project
is it needs a new bearing
right were the ah
impeller is
that bearing is shot to hell
I'm hoping that this will work on that bearing there
if this piece doesn't work
the bearing does pop out
and I'm not sure but I'm thinking there all the same
or pretty much the same, we'll see
so far the parts that I got off that other blower have
been a pretty good match
except for the ah brass bearing for the drive shaft
I had to grind that down a little bit to make it work
next time we'll go ahead and we'll separate
the engine housing and ah
we'll try to get that ah bearing replaced
alright y'all that's all I got for today
thanks for being here with me
I appreciate it
bye bye