Echo Red Armor has fuel stabilizers advertised to keep fuel good for up to 2 years. I have a couple saws that don't get run often and I've had great success using it. All my 4 stroke ope gets a bit of Stabil. I just use lowest octane pump gas typically containing eth. Knock on wood I don't ever have any issues. My snow blower fires right up every single time I ask it to, and that's not often.
Yup just like the 4banger sboxes people put a “cold air” intake on and cut off the muffler. Sounds like chit and most likely makes less power!
Since y'all know about snow blowers, and I don't, I have a question, please: A few weeks ago (before this snowpocalypse was forecast) I was offered a "well, why not" deal on a snowblower. We don't use them much here, except for some professional groundskeeping crews, and I'm at least the third owner but it looks nearly new. So I know little about them. This one is a Craftsman, Murray-built (I think) blower. I found an online manual for it, but there's no mention of the purpose of two grease-fitting-looking fittings, one on each auger shaft near the shear pin. There's no pressure ball in these fittings like a normal grease fitting, and the gear box and outer bearings are internally lubricated, so I don't think they're there for any real lubrication purpose. The only thing I can come up with is to help with disassembly (pressurize internally to push the slip fittings apart), or to fill the slip fit at the gear box with grease so that connection doesn't rust up, so the pins can shear if they need to? I'm at a loss as to what I should do with these, if anything. Thanks for any advice!
My first thought would be for grease so the inter shaft does not rust to the outer shaft. Hey, what do I know.
Finally got the ole beast out tonight. Looks like it was Murray built...it's "made in USA" old! Still works good.
It's in nice shape! You can often tell the age when it says to write for parts. How much snow did you get?
Thanks...it was my uncles. I bought it at the auction (didn't come cheap either!) when they moved in town...it was his baby, he waxed it every year and all the usual maintenance items done. He was head of maintenance at a state hospital, so he knew how to take care of things. I couldn't be there so my brother bid on it for me...he went past my max, but I'm glad he did. I try to take care of it too, but honestly it hasn't had the posh life it had before...I need to give it some love this spring. About 8.5"...supposed to be another inch or two today potentially.
Easily met my expectations. The snow bank along the state highway was 3 inches higher than the auger mouth. I buried it and it just kept chewing n spitting. Good machine.
I gave our snow blower a workout yesterday. It wasn't a lot compared to some of you folks but it was good to run it. It's a Yard machines, 24 inch. Not sure the HP but it does really well for my needs. It was a Wisconsin machine originally in 2015, purchased at Menards. (Love that store)!! We brought it back when my FIL passed in 2016. I don't think it had much use. It's a work horse! I did our driveway and the 83 year old woman across the street while it was snowing yesterday.
My Crapsman served me well once again. The primer bulb feels like it could use replaced and I had a slight cable issue, but I got er done with ease. This side was up in the hand lever for drive and kept popping out. I flipped the cable and put this down where the 2 cables are into a plate and zip tied it. Probably get a spare just in case. 9 horse, 29” cut. I’ve owned this for over 20 years.
Hey WeldrDave thanks for showing us northerners what concrete and pavement looks like; we will see it in a month or 2 maybe
Have you tried spraying anything on to prevent sticking to the inside of the blower? I ordered a couple cans of DuPont snow and ice repellent to see if it works or not. I've tried wax, silicone, WD ect. definitely short term effectiveness.
No, I have not. Funny you mention that; A couple years back when we had another small snow, I thought about using (PAM) and Chrissy said I was nuts! Heck, it works on our cast Iron pans...
