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Snowblower Repairs
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Why you want to Make SURE the shear pins in your 2 stage snowblower work
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I know, its kind of WHAT am I looking at picture.. This is the blower shaft out of my 1969 Reo – Wheel Horse 2 stage snow blower. I was trying to think of a way to emphasize just how bent this shaft really is and if you look at the gap between the shaft and the level at the left side of the photo you get an idea of how bad this is.
This is what happens when the shear pins in the augers of a 2 stage snowblower DON'T work and you suck up a rock or tree branch or something. In my case it killed the engine when I sucked up the rock. This is also why you want to police the areas you clear of snow to make sure there is nothing to suck up other than snow.
I bought this snowblower used about 4 years ago and at the time I noticed that there weren't any shear pins in the holes of the augers. That was because the augers were seized to the shaft with corrosion. Keep in mind that the center of each auger is a pipe 10 inches long wrapped around a 1 inch diameter shaft and corroded for 40 years, so, it might as well be welded on. It was one of those. I need to fix this, but other things took higher priority until..
..when I sucked up a nice big rock, something had to give and the blower shaft was it.. Also consider that this is a ¾ inch diameter steel shaft, its not a lightweight aluminum thingy but something this is real metal material from back when things still said 'Made in the USA' on them. All that to say that there is some real force involved here. Lucky for me this didn't break the cast iron gear box, or break the worm and spur gears in the gear box.
Why am I going through all of this explanation? So, hopefully I can convince you to do the maintenance and prevent this from happening to your snow blower. Because repairing this is... Well next to impossible.. I only needed:
Hydraulic press
Metal Lathe and Tooling
Milling machine – ala modified drill press
Arc Welder
Angle Grinder
bearing separators, and gear pullers
Various drills, bits, wire brushes, etc.
And LOTS and LOTS of time..
(and I still spent less on all of this equipment than the $500 to $700 they charge down at the HD for a 'new' snowblower.. Made out of tin and P L A S T I C.)
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