You know it's dark a little night ride. It's a gilson, snow blower looks really clean, really dark over here air compressor and a motorcycle jack. I can get the air compressor, motorcycle, jack and and the air compressor you can get both of those in the bus. But the snow blower not going to happen.

I don't have my truck with me. Unfortunately, a friend of mine was right around the corner with his truck, so we're gon na go, throw it in his truck and i'm gon na go pick it up tomorrow. But it looks pretty cool - it's older machine, it's 70s, but definitely built like a tank. Let's get her.

Let's go get her that's the next day and it's light out. This is where we dragged it over to a friend of mine's place and get a little bit better. Look at what we got. I'm guessing an eight horse kind of look for the size of the chassis yeah.

There's the number right there, st 826. That's eight horsepower. 26 inch cut tires, look decent and it looks like actually somebody replaced them they're, actually, looking pretty decent, all metal got one cutting edge. These are for snow banks, it cuts the side of the snow bank, so it falls in front of the auger and takes that out yeah and go load that up in the truck we'll bring it back to the shop and have at here hey guys, how's it Going well now that we got it back at the shop and on the bench you can get a better look at what we have gills gilson's, a good machine.

They were kind of sold under some different names too. I have a uh, a tractor. I actually had it for 25. First tractor i ever bought it's a gilson garden tractor hydrostatic drive and it's a sold under montgomery ward.

I think it was which was a kind of department store kind of sears. Not the sears is around anymore, neither they're good machines. I don't know about snowblowers. I've never had one of them, but we're going to go find out.

So let's get a better idea. What kind of condition stuff is in we'll just give it a quick visual on it looks like a lot of craps from dripping down out of the carb again, it looks like somebody put tires on it, or they were just kind of kept. It very well because i don't see any cracking in them that one's flat, you see the whole thing kind of sitting, kitty whompus to the side. All steel electric start looks like somebody put different shoes on it.

I don't think that would have been factory they'll. They click they're off of a modern snowblower like a universal one and that cutting edge so there's a cutting edge back here supposed to touch the ground if you're on pavement, i don't know if you can see that's supposed to be right down to the ground and It scoops up the snow on a driveway, but if you have gravel you leave it up a little bit. Well, that looks like it's worn all the way down, but the adjustment is all the way up. There's uh slots on here you loosen the nuts up in the back of that that cutting edge would slide down shift the camera's picking it up or not got a gearbox in the center.

That could be suspect to get burned up. Uh bushings on the end, tend to get burned up wheel, bushings on the end. They have a tendency to get burned up all right, see what we've got for oil in it. Let's go pop: the cover off the belts take a peek.

What's going on underneath there and get rid of our sign off camera, i guess they bought yeah whatever. That is a tablet of some sort. Let's pull over a couple times see what we get for chugging. I gave it a quick there and a hand compression just fire right up.

Let's go check for earl when i pull it over. I get a big whiff of bad gas, so i have a feeling that that's going to be needing to be addressed and that looks pretty dark. There's oil in it, but it looks really nasty huh yeah, that's pretty dirty, but at least there's oil in it. Let's go pop that cover off, keep getting mice, nasty, looks pretty good and not all rusty is fairly shiny, so it doesn't look like it's been sitting for a terrible long period of time.

There's another thing too: there's a drive disc down below for the transmission and sometimes that burns up. Let's actually probably see it's got gas in it. You see, you can't see. Oh you can smell it though smell.

It doesn't look like there's much in it really anything on the bottom, maybe a quarter inch or so, which is good. We have to get rid of a bunch of it. Let's uh flip it up onto the front auger, get that belly pan off we'll take a quick look at the drive disc. What i'm trying to do is just trying to assess that there's no major damage on it.

That's going to be cross cost prohibitive. You don't want, to put you know: 200 300 into a 200 snow blower. Just you know, kind of upside down that way, good! Keep that pan off shhh. My batteries are kind of dim.

So that's the drive disc up behind this right here, kind of like that. Snapper mower set up, we did actually looks in pretty good shape, though it's got a lot of meat left on the rubber. There is a joke there somewhere chains, look okay! I don't see much going on with them. No real mouse ness at all.

Neither this is that's a rarity for here you think the year. Is, i wonder if that that digit the 1975 in the fourth month? Let's just i guess it looks like it'd - be around that period of time, though huh all right, let's go flip her back down. Actually, let me go pop, you understand we're gon na go check a couple, other things: let's go and check the axle again. They have a tendency to burn the bushings up here that one's got a decent amount that side's pretty tight.

This one and she's kind of flapping around actually looks like the bushings walking out it only took 45 years to get that way. Right, let's go see if electric start does anything that didn't sound good, did it it's like a blue, breaker or arctur there. It goes. I think that starters no good because it just blew a fuse.

I think it just blew a fuse yeah. Well, there's one issue: yeah pop the gfi: let's go, give it another shot, but i think it's got issues. That's it kicked it out again yeah. It does not sound very healthy, either yep that starter is cooked.

Well, we'll see if it has spark anyway, let's go pop the plug out of it, and then we might be able to crank it also with the plug out. There's gon na be no compression for it to fight she's carboned up so it looks like it's probably been running with a choke on it. I probably had an issue running and they kept running it with the choke and they probably fought them so much. It went out to the free park.

Let's go see if we can get that in the spot. Yeah, let's go check what it has for a throttle. I see choke you see, throttle where's the throttle stripping gas too got to be a throttle on it somewhere. Right here, all right, just so we're not every time they always want to fight me hold on one sec, not that the pull start doesn't work.

Let's see we get yeah, it literally shot fire right out of the plug. I think it's up here, that'd be a good thing. If that's what it is, why not? Let's go again yeah living on the edge there. Let's see, if i get you to stand, we'll gank the pull start see if you're getting the pull start.

Of course it's on the other side, you see anything i see so no spark. The starter does not want to kick, and i would say this motor's, probably old enough that maybe has points that might be what the issue is either just didn't see the sparkler. You guys saw it and you're yelling at me right now. So one last thing i said the uh auger in the front the gearbox can blow out.

It actually feels pretty good it's how much plate you're feeling there's a worm gear! That's inside here that a lot of times is brass and it will strip out, especially if somebody doesn't put sheer pins. This still looks like it has regular, sheer pins in it. So if you hit something and jam it, it breaks the pin off instead of taking out this gearbox and a lot of people, they lose it and they put a bolt in there and then hit something shove up. You know get a frozen newspaper stuck in there and jam it up and takes out the gearbox.

So it seems like it's. Okay, it's just as far as the play is concerned got one bolt left on that. Let's go pop, that off of there and see. What's arcing see if we can fix that it'd be nice if we can crank it without trying to pull start it and we got more screws, we can get those three out we'll get that see.

If there's a failure in here, hopefully there's a failure in here and not the starter, i have a feeling, it's probably both though, let's get that off, i don't see anything, that's totally smoked. What do you think so? That's power coming in this is the push button. What do you think this thing is? I haven't seen that before i think it's like a rectifier or something yeah. I've not seen that before pull it out here, see what it says that might have what what went pop to this is ac, not sure yeah.

It says 120 volt 60 cycles right on it. I wonder if we could just hook power right through. I was just that's just a capacitor. I don't have the answer.

Spray tan 10 comments already written on what that is. I just i'm unaware of it and we go uh chase even go pop, a little power to this directly see if we get her to spin. So i started looking around that ground plug with the plug itself and the ground lead. There was no post in the center of it, so i have a feeling that the ground wire was touching.

Probably the hot lead, that's a guess on my part, but maybe we could try plugging the extension cord back in with uh that out of the circuit and we'll see if it fires, i could probably omit that switch out see if that switch burned out too. But i think it that was it right there, the plug was uh busted. I took a look at the extension cord to see if the post was there. It's not.

I think it was just missing the whole time. I didn't see it well, that'd be easy. If that's all, it is look at the end of that plug too it's all burnt up now, maybe a little hard to see, but i got that wired directly and i took an old cord yeah. The switch is bypass.

We don't have to hit the button. We just put these two together and either smoke's gon na come out or it's gon na crank or both you ready yeah. It's fighting me. I think it's drawing a little bit of current we're going into the inner sanctum of the horde, and i may have a starter.

Let's see what we can kind of come up with watch my step hold on. There should be some of these are tractor starters, but anything with an ac plug on it should be a there's one. I think my box is kind of so we'll grab that one. It's already got a button on it and that one right there, too, we'll bring both of those back with us.

Actually three of them there's another one here too, and hopefully one of those workforce. If we can't fix the other one. So i know i don't have any spark carbs gon na have to be dealt with. Uh compression feels like it's okay and the starters cook, so i'm actually just gon na start taking pieces off we'll get rid of the starter that needs to be addressed anyway.

Yeah. That's gon na be a manual start uh. This tin, we're gon na get rid of this. This is covering the carb carbs gon na have to come off.

Everything have a spark, so we got to get the flywheel pull start cover off to access. What's uh electrically down below it still could be either the key or the uh shut off, where the throttle, when you go all the way down, there's a little tab down below that grounds. A wire out that kills spark too. So, possibly that stuff can be it.

But i'm suspecting that it's got points in here, cruddy all right. Let me get them out of the way we'll get into it. So so, let's see, if i can get you to see this without blinding you with the light there he is. I can't open the choke all the way, because there is a nut stuck underneath.

Somebody was active, getting it just one nut, there's a joke there, somewhere it's up around the choke and the choke lever's bent right there, trying to clear it. So winning up over the top dropped down below and now it is what it is that car's got. Ta come off anyway, we'll get it out the other way, all right pull start. We still have to get that out.

I got two on the bottom two on top. Hopefully, that cover clears these handlebars. I've dealt with them before, where you can't get it out of there. Tillers, sometimes like that too.

Let's go find out. This is the kill wire. It does not have one on the throttle. It just had it on the key switch.

Let me throw one more plug now that that's disconnected, as i said, sometimes, if that grounds out, that will also be a problem. Let's uh got a different plug in it to eliminate the plug, give her a couple of cranks if you get spark. Of course it's on the wrong side. For me, anything i can't see awesome.

We are not taking the pull start off, that's done fixed good. Possibly there was something in here. I just missed it the first time. You know what that means.

Don't you you're worried about that nut, still, aren't you let's go through a little, it's not going to make it past the throttle plate further up and i'm going to take the carb off in a minute. But let's just for shits and giggles see she fires, but i don't have. I don't have three head bolts on this side. What am i doing? Where am i going? It's a metal head, gasket kill it he's about calibrated right.

There that's running way too long. I might be running on the gas: that's in the carburetor. Let's get that nut out of there. I'd expect it to run so it's running out of gas.

That's in the carb! That's a good sign! Wait for it got one but there's another one behind it. Then you have to do a little. I got ta go and number two as long as i don't push it in. What has me is these are so clean, there's nothing else in the throat of that carburetor.

Just these two, i bet you had a bunch of crap around it and they got it running and they couldn't suck these up. All the other, little nesting crap probably went through it. It's my guess, because there's just nothing that you can see right very well, there's nothing in there that shows any kind of debris. You know there's something on the bottom, no onward.

What do you want to do? Next? Let's look at its fuel see if you have to clean that out of the tank now that they're out see if it'll fire up again like that so yeah it uh. I don't so you come up up idle. It dies yeah, probably a little choke. You got ta open it up, though, still yeah, it's got nothing on the main, only idle circuit, that's the fuel shut off.

I turned it. I think it's gon na work. Let's go see what it keeps peeing or not. I think it's much in that tank anyway, but all right stop you're gon na keep going, i think, we're okay.

I already took the bottom screw out. That's the one that was holding the tin for the intake. These don't have a air filter. Snow blowers generally.

Do not because the water, sometimes the conditions, are right, the weather kind of comes around and clogs them up, and you got to think like a snow blower. What is it it's used in? It's a pretty clean air environment. The only time it's ever out is when everything's covered in snow, so there's not much dust that gets kicked up. That would uh damage it.

We want that spider. I think he uh passed away a day or two ago and let's get the throttle off all right. Let's go open her up, she looks like you think, we're gon na get for gas yeah yellow, but he didn't. He did run on that definitely morning peace, so you ready yeah, not bad at all.

I dare say that we probably could have just ran this one clean with fuel, but then, if we didn't take it apart, it would have screwed up on us see if the floats suck we'll throw that in the uh, i'm gon na throw it in the ultrasonic Cleaner anyway and uh make sure she floats kind of hole in it. That's very clean good, we'll soak that and we'll work on something else. While that's doing its thing, yeah, let's release the goo. Let's see how much, if there's any color nice colorful metal, rainbows it's dirty, but it doesn't look like it's got a bunch of metal dust in it got to kind of wait a little bit for it, though you put it in the pan and give it a Little spin and give you a better idea: it looks pretty good a little on a thick side huh.

So there's some vintage oil right there, that's probably snowblower 75. We'll call that 75. plug that back up, go see with the old, no shiny bits good and go fill that back up and we'll jump onto something else. Actually, while that's out, is it a good time to go, maybe tilt it and turn it and bend it? Yeah, let me do that remind me to put oil on now.

I'm going to get 10 000 people telling me to pull it on yeah. Let's go flip it up, uh, let's go screw with that front, cutting edge and that stuff and start looking into how the the underneath of it looks. How many pounds do you think i am going to say zero zero, it's kind of holding it up in the air, but like between five and ten. That's too much kind of flipped up looking at that cutting edge.

Now i bet to think that either they turned the same direction every time and it wore uneven or one of the tire pressures was off. You can see the cutting edge got about three quarters of an inch left on that side. So i'm going to loosen these up, i want to spin it around. Maybe we'll take it off and put this out here.

I'm not sure that actually nah, it's too far off i'm gon na just try to crack them loose moving forward the best they can we'll work with what we got. I broke one that one put a different bolt in it. Let's you can get that to slide down. I know it needs a new one, but i don't have one at the moment.

What i'm trying to do is save the the auger part of it, because the more this runs down the closer these get to rubbing on the ground. I've seen it to the point where that's happened actually they've, you know kind of bumped the ground a little bit too. So that's why i'm running down. What's there the best i can, and i think i'm going to set it up, i'm going to set it up.

This doesn't touch we'll leave like a quarter inch gap underneath it so that it rides mostly on the shoes instead of the cutting edge. Let's go take a peek. I do believe that drive disc is looking a little on the funky side. There's a chew mark going around it, i mean still got rubber good rubber on it all the way around, and i can see from this side when i look down from the top, though you can see that definitely got tore up there.

It's like something got caught in it went around, so maybe goes on a list. Maybe it doesn't. It can run like that for a long time, i'm gon na throw a little bit of lube on the chains that one's a little on the dry side that one's fine and right back here, this slides back and forth. This is your gear selector, so the engine spins when you engage the belt for the drive it spins this disc.

This disc in turn, goes to this axle and this drive disc, slides either towards the center or further out more towards the center. It is the speed is slower, transferring and the more towards the outside the faster it's going. You want reverse it's kind of in reverse. Now it's a little on the other side of the disc and it's it's spinning the opposite direction and spins it just backwards.

Goes through these. These two sets of change, which is just a gear reduction to the axle. All right, let me get that dipped dropped it down low again, i'm going to just run it through the paces. As far as the gears and the the engage i don't know what's going on with this, it's got some kind of apparatus.

I do not understand its purpose. Where is that going? I wonder if it was for tension, i wanted to shoot rattled and it would turn on him, so he just put some tension on it or wrapped it around the knob to hold it in one spot. That's common i've seen that happen, we'll get rid of it. For now, let's drive the pulley on the bottoms locking in.

Let me show you i'm going to shut you, i'm going to set you in a stand and uh run it through the gears back and forth. There's a bunch of stuff in your way, but you should be able to see that plate slide over this direction back and forth. I want to spread that grease out a little right now, it's in neutral, reverse one reverse two mess up: the fifth that's gear. Two three: four: five neutral: reverse one reverse two, that's all the speeds, that's back out neutral, so that was the gas that was in the carb.

Let's go what drain the rest of it i'll get rid of this and we'll drain. What's in the tank and put fresh stuff in see what color it looks like yeah, not much better, i always say it's within 10 years old, though you can see the air gap underneath there. If you go over this side, it's much greater. So i'm going to drop this one down so that equals roughly the height of that that's about a quarter inch we're going to go with that, see how it does and it'll leave a little bit behind, but it depends on your surface what you're trying to do If you got a real fine pavement, you want to get it right down to nothing, but if you're doing gravel you got to k, you got to leave about an inch underneath them.

You know, depending on how well packed your gravel is, so we go tweak the shoe a little bit, give her a little resting stance. It's even got grease fittings in the chronograph and get on them come on. That's nice! That's something meant to last got a little too happy there. I started looting it loosening the drain plug for the gearbox in the front.

I've seen all kinds of setups with fluids. Most of the new stuff is just grease. Some of the old ones have, like you, fill it with a gear oil. I suspect that's what this one is looking to see if we can get a little urine sample or something it's going down pretty low and not hitting nothing.

Is there anything in there? Well, it's a good thing. We check because uh not much a lot of times it just oozes out of the size of it. I'm gon na go, let's see what i got to go put in there. I need kind of like a heavy, a heavy grease.

More than a gear oil, but either one depending what i got, i took the front lower plug. That's the fill plug. This is probably where you let it run out. You fill it up to that level when it run out.

That actually looks pretty good. I feel more confident now nice put all that back together and what do you want to move on to next, so i figure i always run the drain, plug with that sharp edge sticking out the top it's drilled through for a vent. The top's kind of crude, though so, when it warms up it, doesn't push the fluid out, get some place for the air to expand and contract out of the gearbox and let's go check on soup, where our flood's still floating. That's a good sign.

Sometimes these brass ones crack especially water, got in the um water got in the float pole and it freezes and cracks we'll get all that out of there give her a bath with water blow her out, put it back together and slap her back together. I blew everything out with compressed air all the passages they already screwed up. You're like what what'd you do. Did you not do? I heard one of you yelling, uh-huh and work without that? Which way are we? What are you doing one more time it is broken, but i do not have another one, so we're gon na do with what we have now we put i'm gon na it through that that is kitty wompus the clip got kitty.

Wonkas do over the clip, even when i took it off, it's like extraordinary, extraordinarily on the long side, but it is what was in there, so i'm gon na leave alone for now, but it got turned sideways come on come on. Hopefully, that does not continue to be an issue in the future. All right, where's, the pin there it is. It looks pretty good, almost like straight across there's a uh, a drill bit.

You sit in there and use it for a shim and it's blowing. It make sure the passage closes and opens it does, and now we can go put part a with part b without losing yeah. It says definitely one simple curve not much to it, and the fuel shut off works, which is nice, because these have a tendency to drip over time. You can see even by the staining that was underneath it.

It's probably an indication. A bowl gasket would have been nice someday. Maybe if you perform well with a fruitful life you got a mile ago, when i'm done, i'm going to hit that with a little blast of air just because any little brass or anything you scrape off or the walls you scrape off a little bit. I just want to get any crappy dust that got up inside there out of there and the fuel comes in around through that jet there's a passage right there and this pinches off against that jet.

How much can pass through there by adjusting it up and down? That's your mixture, one of them leave that roughly where it was, and we have that one which is the same thing only different, only smaller. That's it throw where that choke was just close, that up where those nuts were stuck seems. Okay, i'm gon na leave. It alone, i thought i kind of bent that top plate just a hair.

I might might just be that way to leave it. So there's a little bit airspace, i think, before we uh reassemble and get that carb on there all the pieces. Let's go take some time just go clean a bunch of this crap up while there's some access to it and all the covers aren't wrong original paint. You know, got ta, maintain the original paint, not sure what you can see.

Can you see this camera here really and it's got a lever right here, so everything is done by the one. Usually on top you have one lever for the drive and one lever for the auger and you can latch one with the other. You see this one is tensioning the belt for the auger and but it's also the driver, there's a lever here on the side you hit that it'll just run the wheels, not the auger, and i guess you got ta kind of put it in neutral. I don't know if i'm all that crazy about that, because you kind of like to bump the uh like when you're in a thick snow bank at the end of the driveway and you're you're, running the machines to the snow bank.

You kind of just like on and off that the wheel drive and as the engine kind of bogs down a little bit you let it process a bunch of snow. You take another bite at it. I'm not sure how this is going to work, having everything on one lever unless possibly it's like. Let's go see where it comes in happening here.

No, it's right away, it doesn't say possibly if you can just kind of engage and disengage or maybe the drive is like that. Maybe the drive is just the auger's spinning and you can i'm gon na find out when we get it running. That was uh very clear and concise. Huh.

All right back to putting that card on, looks good. Huh, it's cleaned up. Let's go wiggle that back on. We need throttle.

We have throttle, get it under there. There you go so you're erasing what you wrote. It's all right, someone's not happy about move-in day yeah. That might be an issue make sure the bench is clear before you let it down so looking down at the shifter, you see, all the slots have a deep cut in it, except for neutral, neutral, sits up high.

So that's what it does. It holds the drive disc off, so no matter what you do with the lever, you can run this if you just want to run and clean up the impeller by itself the auger by itself. I think it's going to take a little bit of uh getting used to. It would be bad for long.

You know long strips that you're doing, but when you try doing little little kind of areas it might be annoying. You got the headlight. You just have the two wires tied together and you can plug them in. I don't see an on off switch on it anywhere, so i have a feeling he was just taking it and pull out these gas.

Okay, take them and just kind of plug them together. When you needed it all right, that's good! Don't get too overconfident that we're gon na use all that right. We don't have snow yet neither and try and fire it up and have to adjust the two screws. So at a high speed, i'm going to be adjusting this one and when i go back down to an idle i'm going to be adjusting this one and just kind of listening to it to get the best run without it.

The smoothest run in before it cuts out is pretty much the window. You want to be in hey you kind of back up a little bit from that. Make it a little bit richer in his lean, less fuel out is rich, more fuel and then the choker. Let's warm up for a second, hopefully it runs all good.

I haven't figured out why i did not have spark, but we're gon na go use this for a little bit for the to ground it out and then possibly be. A switch was no good up here. Where the key goes in, that might have been an issue fire it up. That's full throttle, no, not tearing the gas on so look all the way down this shut off the fuel.

Actually, no, i hit the wire that should be dialed in it sounded like. I got it pretty good. We have to tweak a little bit more than that. I'm gon na go put the rest of the covers on and i can see the meter.

We need to go on resistance. We are now all right, open, close, so right now that switch has no key in it. It should be closed or grounded across it, and it is, let's go put the key in it wherever the key went. I literally just saw it.

Isn't that entertaining. I have a feeling the key wasn't all the way in, because i don't remember it being that hard to uh, so it was in just that which was open. Now, it's not uh closing open there guys. I think it was in that far and it just wasn't making a safe.

That's why i had no spark, that's easy. I can go with that. Let's go run through its functions. Let's plug that light in into see if it works, so looks good, everything's, nice and straight i killed it.

That was fifth gear. Just want to put drag on to make sure it had a nice enough drive on the drive disc, which it does everything checks out. Good light's not working, i don't know if it's not putting power out or doesn't have a good bulb in it. There's only the plastic cover to go on in the little pan underneath pop the headlight out of there we'll put 12 bolts to it.

Real quick see. We get away yeah that bulb's burned out, not sure if i got another one, let's go check well, i couldn't find one of those. I did find a fog light and if that works, i probably throw that in. There may not match the aesthetics for the age of it, but yeah all right getting a fog light, and i only had one of them.

So i don't even feel guilty about breaking up a set. Well, we got the light on there fired it up. That seems to work just fine aesthetically, it's a little off. I kind of like the fact this machine is, i think, it's almost all original, except for maybe the the skis or the shoes on the side, the headlight's, probably the original one or like a an add-on back when the thing was new yeah you possibly get another Bulb for that, if i do, i may put that back on there just for that purpose starter.

Unfortunately, the start amounts that i grabbed of the other starters do not match the setup that is on here. So this video is long enough. I was gon na go. Tear into it see if we could possibly fix the starter, that is on it, but i think we've uh been a fairly long, video gluing this one back together.

I think it's gon na be a good machine. I don't have snow yet to go. Try it out, but everything seems like it's functioning quite well. It's a nice good quality machine, not the pieces of plastic you buy now.

Everything on this is metal, except for the cover for the belts. It could use some belts yeah at some point and probably that cutting edge but it'll last a good couple of years, just as it is ready to go blow snow and we're gon na find that out, hopefully, as far off as possible, it's we're going. It's the end of november right now getting into december. You know we'll start getting some snow and i'll be able to run this one and probably do the sidewalks around here with it guys.

I want to thank y'all for hanging out with me. I think this one died for a couple of nuts stuck in the intake. That's probably why they threw it out by running it wasn't getting full power and they just decided to probably get a new one and thought this motor or whatever was tired on this one. But meanwhile, a couple of those and i'll get you in trouble more ways than one huh, all right guys without a sign off, and thank you all for hanging out with me and uh fixing free junk from the side of the road till the next time.

I'll see you then bye.