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Snowblower Repairs
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How do you pour oil into this thing?
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The 'rub' on this project is that yes the gear box and blower shaft come out of the unit fairly easily.. In the case of this old Wheel horse, the unit splits in the middle and you can take the entire front blower off of the engine and wheels with a couple of pins.
But, just replacing the blower shaft without fixing the stuck augers is not going to keep you running for very long. You must get the augers loose so the shear pins can work.
That's what penetrating oil is for Right?? Well, how do you get it down between the center shaft and the auger? The end of the center shaft actually sticks out farther than the auger so you only have a small lip to put the oil on, and I don't really have time to stand here all day and add a few drops of oil every so often.. So what to do, what to do??
The photo shows a piece of PVC pipe, this turns out to be a part of a sink drain trap that I had around the shop, jammed on over the auger and shaft. I have this setting upright in a trash can to keep the whole thing from falling over.
I filled the PVC pipe up with oil, believe me over the course of several MONTHS I tried everyone's favorite brands, PB blaster, Liquid Wrench, etc, including mixing my own. I can not say that the oil ever really penetrated into the joint.
OK, second problem, how do you press, pull, etc this thing apart, assuming of course that the oil actually un-seized the joint, which it didn't, so far.
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