- #Craftsman snow blower parts from 15 years ago pro#
- #Craftsman snow blower parts from 15 years ago plus#
Of course one of the goals with a console like this is to move all the controls up to the user. I don't have a picture of the next step which was to drill 3 mounting holes however you'll see those holes pretty soon. To form the console, a sheet of 1/4" aluminium was cut then clamped in place for mockup. Pardon the slightly messy TIG welds this is the first time I had TIG welded aluminium in about 2 years and I was slightly out of practice. After contouring the ends of the C channel to match the radius of the handle it was welded in place. The openness of the C was needed to allow access to the bolts. There were two holes already in the handle at about the correct location (probably for factory accessories) so I found some aluminium tubing having an ID of the handle diameter, halved it, drilled matching holes and bolted them in place.Ī cross member was made from some 1" aluminium square C channel, 1/8" wall.
I was sort of sick and tired of bending down to adjust the throttle on the old engine, or operate the choke, or ignition. With the new engine installed, time to start on that console. Of course with the crankshaft on the new engine slightly lower it took 3 trips to the hardware store to find the correct belts. I broke my puller trying, accidentally bought a puller too big to replace it, then finally got it off with the correct sized puller and an impact gun. Kind of annoying to remove the pulleys from the old engine due to not wanting to move after 20 years. As most small engines share the same mounting bolt pattern, it bolted right up.
So why fix a recoil when I can just swap the whole engine and end up with an electric starter and 2 extra horsepower as a bonus?
#Craftsman snow blower parts from 15 years ago pro#
Turns out at that exact moment, Princess Auto decided to put on sale their Pro Point 208cc OHV Gas Engine with Electric Start, knocking $100 off the price. I had kind of wanted to work on it anyway to add a few features like electric start, small alternator, lighting and controls. As I started the blower to begin the preparations for summer storage (fuel stabilizer, fogging oil, oil change) the recoil starter was left dangling from my hand. Even ran the original belts!įast forward 8 years to the spring of 2018. And considering the use it received, it was sort of remarkable that the only failure was a broken recoil starter. Clearing the driveway, the neighbors driveway, the shop parking lot. But it provided the perfect opportunity to adjust the carb under real world conditions and after some tweaking, the blower worked perfectly. One weekend in particular saw 36" of snow in a matter of a day. That winter was probably the most snow-filled one I can remember. Nothing more to do then but change the oil, put in a new spark plug, adjust the carb as well as possible then wait for snow. Well there's your problem! Shooting some fuel down it's throat fired it up without issue, so mechanically the engine would run.īrought it over to my shop and after the installation of a carburetor rebuild kit and plenty of clean up, it was back up and running. The carburetor bowl drain passed a thick rust coloured goop. Judging by the smell in the fuel tank, whatever fuel was once gasoline has become varnish and quite likely that was an event which occurred every summer. The engine spun over, made compression and spark, but of course wouldn't start. Powered by a venerable Tecumseh HSSK50 195cc 5HP "Snow King" engine. The rest of the day at work was long, after which I drove directly to my parents house and was delighted to find my prize! A Craftsman 5/22 snow blower. Even if the engine was totally trashed I had several spare engines, or there was always the option of a big electric motor, or simply rebuilding what was there. Naturally it didn't run, but did I care? Nope. When my mom called me she barely got through the sentence explaining that a neighbor was throwing out an old snow blower, and wondered if I wanted it, before I started screaming "Yes!" into the phone. It was "unnecessary", or shovels worked fine, my mom's refrain "I enjoy clearing the snow".įast forward my childhood, past my teenage years, into adulthood, all the way to the summer of 2010.
#Craftsman snow blower parts from 15 years ago plus#
Plus the fact that my brother and I had wanted to expand our summer lawn care business to winter snow clearing, and while we couldn't foot the bill of a snow blower ourselves, we would have been happy to pay maintenance, usage and running costs of a parental owned unit. It never seemed like a valid use of anyone's time to shovel the driveway at every snow fall, taking up to an hour or so, when there was a machine which could do the work in 10 - 15 minutes. It stems from the fact that as kids, every winter I started harping on the parents to acquire a snow blower. I'm going to be the first one to admit that I have a strange, call it interest, or maybe even fascination with snow blowers.
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