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Repowering a Vintage Gilson 'Gear Drive'
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Repowering a Vintage Gilson 'Gear Drive'
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Submitted By:
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sdunt
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Date Created:
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10-12-2009
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Description:
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Chronicling my Antique Snowblower collection
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Repowering the Gilson Gear Drive
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I picked up the Gilson 'gear drive' snowblower and a Toro 2 cycle snowblower both for something like $50. At the time I picked up the Gilson, it had a Briggs 6 HP engine that has almost NO compression at all, and the carb leaks gas really bad, even after a rebuild.
After completing several other repairs to make the Gilson work, I never did blow snow with it as the engine lacked power and leaked gas all of the time.
When stumbled upon a pile of 3 used engines (for like $75) I thought I could use the Tecumseh HM80 from the pile to repower the old machine.
Someone already replaced the tires - wheels with these which the seller told me they came off an ariens or something like that..
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Here is the Tecumseh 8 HP setting COMPLETELY inside the bolt pattern of the old Briggs. If I recall this was one of those: I removed the old engine set it aside and grabbed the Tecumseh planning to hold it over the old bolts and see what it looked like, when to my chagrin the 8HP Tecumseh engine slipped right in-between the existing bolts - studs.
Being that I always like to have a "back out plan", I did not see any reason to cut the old bolts off.
You should be able to see the outline of the briggs engine round the bolts, etc
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Mounting Bolt patterns
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