Yes, it has the spring thing. It's fixed-ish now, here's what happened.
First I noticed that the motor was about 1/2 way forward on the 4
carriage bolts that hold it to the blower. No biggie, use the lift to
raise the blower, put logs under it in case the belt breaks, go under
with a 1/2 driver and...
Break two of the bolts and spin the other two. Sigh....
Drop the blower, remove from tractor, put on side with motor down, grab
the cutting grinder (god this is the right tool), cut off the nuts on
the two spun bolts, put 4 new 5/16 carriage bolts in (stainless), 4 5/16
fender washers, 4 5/16 lock washers (stainless) and nuts (cheap o
because Home Depot doesn't stock anything properly), drop the blower
back on the ground, hook up to the tractor, lift, adjust the motor so
it's centered and as far back as it goes and tighten the bolts.
Then adjusted the spring/eyebolt/bolt assembly so there is good tension,
put it all together, fire it up, no more chain dragging on the adjusting
bolt. Lube the chain and we should be in business.
Good afternoon's worth of work. But that should hold it till spring when
I can replace the other skid and the ice scraper on the bottom. More
bolts to cut :-)
I wonder if it's possible to replace the bearings on the auger. That
should come off one of these days...
C
On 2/6/2021 2:15 PM, Rob Brockway wrote:
> Was yours designed to work with a spring?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 6, 2021, at 12:24 PM, Chris Zach via Elec-trak <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
>>
>> While blowing snow last weekend I heard more noise from the chain than is normal. So today I took the access port above the chain and motor off and peered in.
>>
>> The chain feels pretty loose. More interestingly though is that when I press the chain down to check slack the motor moves inward. It looks like the pivot bolt isn't holding the motor back properly, is this normal and if not is it a replace the bolt thing or a major repair on the frame thing?
>>
>> Chris
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