Hm. What's the way to get the auger off? Take off one side of the blower?
On 2/9/2021 8:33 PM, Ben Griffith wrote:
> Yes, it is possible to replace the auger bearings, and in my case it
> quieted down the blower considerably. The old ones were pretty crusty.
> I don't remember the bearing numbers but I just read the numbers and/or
> measured the old ones and ordered new ones. I don't think they were
> anything unusual.
>
> -Ben
>
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 4:18 PM Chris Zach via Elec-trak
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> wrote:
>
> 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
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> >>
> >> 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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