Hey guys how's it going out yard sale and there's one up the road i haven't hit yet, but on the way there was this on the side of the road for free looks fairly modern uh. It doesn't has much use on it, but it's definitely taken apart. Somebody had a a rough time looks like trying to either get to run or operate or whatever its issues are. I don't know if it's blown up, but again the price is right, so i think we throw it in the truck we'll bring it home.

Put it on the bench either found find out what happened to it or see if we can resurrect it and let it live once more. So it's actually a couple months later, this was sitting over in the corner, but the threat of winter is now upon us. So i think it'd be a good time to start figuring out if we could save this machine or at least figure out what happened to it. So i i literally took it out of the truck parked it in the corner and know nothing more about it than what you guys saw when it was on the side of the road.

It doesn't look like it had very much use to it. I see no rust on the outside of it at all. It's really clean, even on the inside, the cutting edge got a little bit of a roll over to it. That shows or not so it has had some use to it.

I wouldn't think it's not really an expensive one. It's more of the lower end of snow blowers. Reason why i say it's got no electric start uh, it's the smaller wheel, smaller cut smaller engine, it's running a plastic impeller instead of a metal one. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

I wouldn't think so, so we got that the guts are sitting on the bench behind me that came with it. This was removed from it plug's still in it. My guess - and this is just a guess and you're welcome to do the same - is that it probably sat over a course of a winter and they went to go fire it up and it didn't run again. That's just my guess: let's see if we got any fuel in it and it's got gas in it doesn't smell terrible.

They may have dumped old gas on top of new. It's got oil in it. Clean too be nice. It was just a dirty car, but maybe not so.

Let me set up in a stand, we'll start getting into it, see what we can find, and hopefully we can bring it back to life so that gas cap back on it's kind of odd that they have. The shoot part removed too, though, so maybe he was having a problem throwing snow uh. Let's give her a couple of yanks and see. If doesn't nothing, feels weird, it's got compression.

Let's go pop off the belt cover, see one screw's already missing. Is it just sitting there? No, let's go pop that belt cover off. We got on this side, got ta, be some more hardware on somewhere, actually there's a little tab. You just pushing there we go.

Let me go put you down yeah, it's got a tab on this side too. There we go, the belts are still on it. I don't see anything funky with that, so you should have a lever, that's for the auger and then for the drive will be down inside here. I don't know what it uses for drive.

It might be a generally a snowblower uses, a disc that has two different surfaces there right on it's kind of like an automatic transmission or cvt transmission. All that looks pretty good, though i don't see anything funky down inside there, and this is it's kind of weird that you know that part was removed all right, it's good to plug out of it and see if it's got any spark. Here's the goodies that were sitting on the bag over there with just a bunch of hardware got a sheer pin. Yeah, i don't see anything broke.

What about that? Little retaining bracket that holds everything. That's okay, too. One thing i noticed it doesn't have a belly. Pan jelly pin is what goes underneath it and it keeps the snow from packing up inside where the clutch is, whether it's missing altogether or again.

It seems like a cheap machine. I wonder if they just kind of omitted it that's kind of oily name in the games. Does it have spark? I do not. I forgot, where there's a kill on this thing too, so that was choke.

This was throttle and we got for so you pull the key up to shut it off, which is that and full throttle. Is that way should we get? I have to move you over yo. It's going to light me up. Oh yeah, really good spark awesome.

What do you say we dribble a little bit of fuel down there, real quick, we'll give her a fire up, make sure there's just no knocking noises. There's a straight gas, give her a little shower right down the center. How many pulls do you think? Let's see the second second pull last ride, i tried playing that game. I think was about 50., you see and i want choke choke off there.

You go. How about one we're going. One sounded. Okay, i'm seeing issues with it.

I'm not worried about that. Little puff of smoke, i guess, can be a problem, so my guess is the carb. Maybe the carb is real nasty. They couldn't get it and or could have a drive system problem.

Let's um that looks okay, let's real quick, we'll we'll set it up on the front of the argo. Take a quick look at the transmission gearbox and see if there's anything funky going on with that. Well, there's something wrong with it. This could be a boring video.

It should be able to stand right up on the auger there we go yeah. I don't see any screw holes in the bottom, so there was never a pan on there. It doesn't have a it's got: a regular gearbox unless there's unless it's inside there. Maybe it's only one speed and i guess it's a fairly simple setup pin is good.

Well, i say we just go forward with trying to get it running and we'll see what happens as far as uh the transmission. You know possibly there's something wrong. We would have to push we go station, stand we're gon na, go push that lever and we'll try turning the wheels and we'll see if that has an output going across yeah. This is definitely an inexpensive machine.

That's for sure yeah. I think we're good. You guys turn okay, let's go tear into that carburetor. Look at that float bowl popped on.

I wonder if they had a kid like me and they he took it apart on him when he was wasn't looking the guy just like shook his head, so i'm buying a new one. I didn't like that machine anyway, and it's even gets a little smaller. This should just be a drain and the other one will take the ball off. Let's see we get out of it for fuel yeah, it's pretty, yellow yeah.

I don't see any water in it. The water will be sitting more towards the bottom too, though you'll see, usually you see a little bubble be floating around in there. That just looks like old gas to me. Let's go get the both rest.

The way off you think in our area, power equipment we're in the northeast, i'm in the northeast doesn't get used for about six months out of the year. So if they don't get, you know properly drained with fuel every time they go to come out for that season. They're all uh, the carbs usually get gummed up, and some water did come out very little. Just i'll show you in a second that bowl is pretty clean, though yeah.

It's kind of perplexing me a little because it sat over there. I know two months now, two or three months. On top of it, you can see that the see where the drain is on the side of the bowl and then where the bottom of the bowl is so the difference in between that water always goes to the bottom anyway, so that drain doesn't really do much. For you, because the water will get trapped, and now you can see it a little gray, looking blob in there that's water, if i let it sit for a while, more of it will join the puddle get a little bit bigger and that water is heavier and Kind of thicker than the gas and there's a little tiny jet up on the side.

It can never really suck that up. They're, not very good. A bigger engine is not a problem. The jet the whole the jet is bigger, but this small stuff really seems to have a problem: let's go take a little mirror.

Let's go probe underneath there we'll take a peek at what that jet looks like see. This will work for us. It actually doesn't look bad looks pretty clean, i'm gon na go shoot some compressed in there compressed in there compressed air up in there and we'll give that a shot. What we'll do is we'll turn.

I got the gas line pinched off open that up we'll let that run a little bit see if we get some clearer gas coming out, if not we'll just put some fresh stuff in it. Let's go pop. The vice grips off should flow yeah and that's the float i'm guessing. It's full should shut the fuel off.

I really think my guess right now is they ran it kind of out of gas and then backfilled it with fuel, but the fuel that was in a carburetor was no good. That looks really clean. Maybe during the summer time he was doing like a little maintenance and he put new gas in and yanked on a bunch of times and tried starting it, but that does not look bad at all. Compared to the stuff, we took out sure hope you find something wrong with it.

I know that sounds dumb, but this is gon na be what boring got time it. So i'm going to go pop that float bowl back on we'll turn the gas on we'll give her a couple yanks. If the fire is up on the carb, you leave the choke off, see. If i go with the choke off, i think we are all set.

Actually, we can hit the primer a couple of times that might be an issue. Let it run a little bit remember. I said about a little bit of smoke that won't be an issue and we might have found why they threw it away. Uh, let's go first of all, i'm going to go turn on the fan and open the door and kind of clean her out a little bit and let's go look into what is going on with that.

Hey guys airing out a little bit careful. What i wish for right, there's like there's nothing wrong with it. Let's go make sure that it's not over for the oil. That's that's hard to say i mean it's so clean.

You can't even tell where it is. It looks like it's wonderful. If anything. The other thing, too, is somebody put the machine, they put it on its side.

The muffler will fill up with oil and the cause to do that. The other thing i'm thinking of too is possibly got a blown head gasket. I don't know if i've really seen that on snowblowers, usually it's on like lawn mowers and riding tractors. The engines are air cooled.

This is the fan that comes in, and mice will build a nest up inside there. The airflow won't be going across and then it takes the it overheats and takes out the head gasket and definitely a lot of just raw oil sitting around the muffler. Maybe we'll fire it up again, we'll let it run a little bit and see what it does see if it settles down at all the other thing, too, there's a breather coming from the valve cover and if it gets a blown head gasket it pressurizes the. I want to call it the crankcase and blow by normally it's just sucked back through the carburetor, but if it gets overwhelmingly large, it can sometimes push oil through that breather.

So real, quick, let's go take the end of the air cleaner off and we'll take a look we'll see if there's a bunch of oil up inside here. If we see oil up inside here then we definitely know that was. It was part of the issue or somebody left the snow blower on its side, and this area filled up with oil and it kind of went down into the carburetor. Let's go find out, i'm glad.

At least you found something that sounds gon na, be a boring video people just basically drain a little bit of gas out and fire it up. I got ta get a tool for getting the hose off. I know it looks pretty wet. Let me see that it definitely looks like oil's been sitting right inside the carb.

That's looking pretty dry, uh, guys, probably asking yourself: why is there? No air, cleaner, snowblowers do not use air cleaners because they're used in such a clean environment, there's really no dust and the water that they would suck up would definitely cause a problem with getting the air cleaner choked off, so they don't bother around. They just run the water right through whatever mist gets, kicked up in the air yeah. It's got some, i wouldn't say it's terrible, but there is definitely oil. What about in the tube itself? Yeah all right! I'm gon na go put the hardware back on the carb, we'll fire it back up with that off of there.

Let's try it again put the key back in it running on the choke right now, hunting a lot too. Let it run it's a little function test on it. I got ta put a clay up on. It, looks all right.

Rowley, let's go. Try the gearbox go through a lot of hunting, it won't idle, so it doesn't have an idle circuit. That's probably a part of what is causing it to run like crap, so i think a few things were going on. I think one was somebody kind of put it on its side and all the oil ran to the side of it and caused that smoking issue.

Why that's why they threw it out? I do not know, but it's also running lean and lean means not enough gas. That's what that hunting is on this carburetor. I've said this before the so there's a main circuit which is like when you're on the rpms and you're up there that's the main circuit, and then it has an idle circuit. And when i put it to idle, which was that right there, it kind of shoot idle, as you just sat there and just chugged right along.

Instead, it died right out, so there's no fuel coming from the idle circuit and the idle circuit is also part of the main. It's not like you come off of idle. It's not doing anything. It's kind of like a mix so say like 10 from the idle circuit and 90 is from the main circuit.

Well, if this 10 percent is blocked off and you're only getting the 90 uh from the main there's still too much air, it makes it run too lean. So i have a feeling that's what's going on, we have no idle circuit, so let's get that carburetor off of there kind of was suspected with being a fuel issue. That smoke was fun, though i thought we're gon na get into taking cylinder head off, but maybe maybe not, let's get the carb off of there and see if we can fix it. Okay, who is the engineer really? Sometimes i tell you this doesn't quite take things into consideration right, i'm gon na take the bowl off.

I should have enough room after i get the bowl off yeah, no water in it. So it looks good. Sometimes water will do that to you too. Water can actually almost mimic that a little bit you got enough to get it now come on.

It's like right. There. There we go all right. Let's go pop over on the bench.

Take a peek at her get over on the bench it is. It's got to be one of the cleanest carbs i've ever taken apart. That actually had an issue. Let's get the float off of it and needle's fine, the main we know the main is working.

It could probably be a little bit dirty. That's the one! That's going to be right up in the center here, we'll pull that out in a second, but what i wanted to show is the idle part of it, which is so this plastic screw right here is your idle speed and you can see at idle that tab On the throttle, plate will go up against there and you turn this in and out for your idle speed underneath there right here is the idle circ part of the idle circuit, and it's kind of i'm going to call it. The jet there's a passage underneath here that my guess is what is clogged and also it looks like it had an adjustment right here and that is uh broken off the tabs broken off. So you can't do anything with it a lot of times.

What you have is like a a funky screwdriver to keep people out of the idea. Is they don't want people messing with them for missions? I i have a tendency to disagree with it in the fact that, first of all, they went with ethanol fuel ethanol fuel causes the carbs to come up when the carbs gum up people have a tendency to try to keep them running to keep so the carbon Runs up, it runs lean, meaning enough fuel. So the way to overcome that is you take your choke and you click your choke on a little bit and you start running it with the choke and it when you cut off the air supply. The air is coming in through here, you're sucking up more fuel from the center.

Well, that's much more non-emission friendly, probably the best way to put it then actually just having it so where you can mix it and then, as things get a little a slightly contaminated, you can kind of tweak them in and out and get them to run. A little bit better, but i guess that's the way government runs right all right, so we want to fix this. Let's go with the main j out of it, and then i do not have that letter d looking set up in the center there i'll come up with something, maybe even just a big screwdriver, we'll be able to turn this out. So we can get the bottom.

The other one out, that's why a lot of the small engine stuff is going to uh fuel injection now bikes too. So the way this sucks up the fuel is through that little hole right there, sometimes the older ones. It was much lower and the idea is when that water is sitting in that carburetor like that, it won't pick it up it'll, actually kind of give a little bit of space. For that to happen there we go there's the jet in the emulsion tube.

That looks really clean and i'm looking through that for the daylight. That looks really clean too, and, of course the compressor decides to kick on so hold on one. Second, all right: where were we so we're gon na try to get that out of there? There's about two or three threads: i'm gon na set it up anyway, once i get it running i'll just run that out until i get a good idle and this isn't threaded, it should just pull straight up and it would be that little port down there. That is clogged.

I'm gon na go look underneath the light real, quick and sometimes you could shine a light behind them, but this style is different because it only goes it's not going through straight through the center. It's going through these holes and up out of there. So that may be clogged and also what i'm thinking now. I wonder if the oil contaminated that like how thick the oil is, may have clogged it and it couldn't get anything through that port, because again, it's just so tiny and this carb is really clean.

Yeah. My guess right now is that they went and maybe tipped it on its side or stored it on its side in the garage is my guess, so i'm gon na go blow out all these passages and we'll put it back together and we'll see what we get. One thing i do want to kind of add, though so say: if you have your typical uh, your typical tecumseh, eight horse 24 inch cut, which is the i'd say, 70 of the snow blowers out there run that engine and, if you're, trying to run it, and You have it's safe at idles, but you still have to go run the choke on a click or two for it to actually kind of run halfway decent, it's running a little too lean, and what you would do is there's an orifice inside there. That's that meters, how much fuel goes in you want to open that up here.

They make little drill bits for it. Uh for jets, and a lot of people also use like um uh, not piano wire, like guitar string, wire and things like that. That can kind of go fit down inside there. We're not going to go.

Do that yet because we want to go see what caused the problem so just by cleaning it we'll see if it goes away. I can't really get that one that adjustment out of there. If we have to we'll take it we'll take a little cutting wheel, we'll put a slice across it and then we'll be able to take it out like a screw but um. I want to see if it'll come back first before we do that, it's more of um exploratory! Why this thing was thrown out.

Let me get to cleaning all the other ones that you can kind of see through and then we blew air through this one, but i'm going to try taking some carb clean it. It may splatter all around. But what i'm trying to see, if i get it coming out of this passage, watch your eyes yeah. I can literally see it bubbling up through there, so i know that passage is open, just a good way to test it again that that just pops down inside there and then the other one holds it in place.

I think you get the idea how it goes back together, right, there's really not that much to it. A couple of threads pass just to hold the throttle from going all the way closed. We'll give her a little extra. I got one screwdriver, but the sides ground down on it - i'm just going to blow through the fuel intake, make sure it shuts off i'm going to let it hang down choke there and i could blow through it all right.

I'm gon na go wipe my fingerprints off of that. Get that wiggled up back in there and then put the float ball on it. We'll try it again see what we get uh. If it doesn't work, then we're gon na do some modifications all right.

Let's go! Try it again that should be full throttle. Let's give her a couple of primer, i should have probably talked about how that primer works. I will in a minute see if it fixes it. You have to give it a second to warm up the operating temperature.

Let's see if it'll idle now now it'll idle the idle circuit's working, i want to say, with the oil, give it a pot, let it warm up much better, a little bit of a load on it. That's got it. I don't know if this has to cut off or not all the way down, sometimes there's a ground that'll ground it out to shut it off. I'm gon na bring that idol up just a little bit yeah right about there.

That sounds good, so i'll choke it. In with my fingers a little, i see how it runs pretty decent when i give it a little bit of choke it kind of calms down, it stops doing that bouncing a little bit. That's what i was talking about with a running lean. Let's go take the carb back apart again, one more time we're gon na go.

Take that main jet we're just gon na open it up just a little bit, get it a little bit richer, it's just off a little, and i think we can probably just get the runs a little nicer than that's, probably how i was running from the factory Too and like i said what it's a lost cause, what people do is they just? They click a little bit of the choke on it. They try running it like that, and it just causes it to the emissions to actually be worse than if it was just a little bit more uh in tune. All the old carburetors were adjustable. You just had a needle on the bottom and you just kind of tweaked into it.

You got that right window, plus the weather kind of changes it a little bit too in your altitude, but um we're at sea level pretty much right here. So it's about the best you're going to get as far as lean, let's back apart again and here's, that little means that i was talking about these are drill index sets. This is a larger one and this one goes down even much finer. So i'm gon na go take the smallest one here, first of all and see if that'll even fit through there, without forcing it.

If that one fits no problem, so we're going to be able to go up and find one that doesn't fit watch it jam it into my finger. They got numbers on them and sometimes it's written on the jet too. You can actually see a number on them. That's a 76 and i'm going to find one that just makes and then we're gon na go to the next one.

That one is seems like it's just about there we're getting close that one's got no number on it. Okay, so just keeps going right, i'm sure i put him back with the number up, so i can see it. Okay, so 67 doesn't make it i'm gon na zoom in and try to find the one that does just make it we're close that one just doesn't make it. I think 69 was the one that went through yeah, so 69 makes it we're just going to open it up just a little bit with 68..

You don't want to go too far. There is a fix. You can fix them other than getting a new jet. You can go and solder them up and then re-drill it again.

It's not that picky. Even if it's not a straight line, it's not. Some people tell you it's got to be. You know dead center.

It doesn't you're metering. How much fuel goes up in the center of the hole, whether it's jagged or or not? You get the right amount of fuel going through, that's it, and i think you need to see me struggle with this case right. So i'm going to go put that back and blow air through it, we'll put it back in and see if that made any kind of improvement without changing anything else. Oh and while i have it off so when the football is on there kind of a sealed chamber, it is vented, there is a vent to the float ball other than the needle and seat.

But when you hit that little button on the side when i was hitting the primer button that shoots an air pulse down here, it kind of pressurizes the float ball. It gives a little bit more pressure into the flow pole and it causes fuel just raw fuel to shoot right up the center of this. This assembly - that's in here it just gives a quick little shot of fuel. It literally just puts raw fuel up inside the center of the car, and then it just gets drawn in just for a little bit of a quick start.

That's how that works. If your gasket's gone on the bottom, some other issues can kind of cause it too, but that's what it's there for all right, so you've been getting improvement on it. This time, let's give her a couple of primer shots full throttle. I'm gon na warm up a minute, i'm gon na.

Let it warm up a second i'm gon na turn. The fan on i'll bring you right back and we'll see. If you have to run without the choke on you can even hear it sounds better. I went too far i went against.

I went to the stop where the ground is. Let me fire it back up again and we'll bring it down to an island rev it up again it's off choke now and it's running much better. So i think i'm going to go one more size up. You can still see when i put the choke on it's running a little bit better.

When you go too far, you'll hear it. It'll it'll start doing that popping kind of sound and that's too much fuel. It's running too rich, so i'm going to go one more size up and we'll try one more time, yeah, which kind of leave it alone from there. Let's play it again, just run a second we're gon na.

Take that for the win. I don't want to go any much more than that, because i don't feel like soldering it up and doing a back step on it, but the guys got it as far as that's concerned uh, we can give a little bit of love to the rest of the Machine though the tires are flat, i think they have tubes in them. Hopefully they hold there we'll start chasing some of that little little stuff and we get to shoot all that kind of stuff back on it too. Hopefully, those valve stems are good too.

It looks like they probably used it uh. It was like this before we played with it on the bench. You can see how the the valve stem is kind of cocked on an angle, so the rim was trying to drive and the tire was staying still where they dragged it with the tires and it caused the stem to go kind of at an angle. So i'm going to try to probably take the rest of the air out just any air in it and then try to get that tire to walk back a little bit that stem straight out.

Hopefully it's not torn, they don't get much 510 psi, i'm probably over already right now, i'm gon na. Let them set up a little bit see if they stay hard. The other thing has many hours in at all. Maybe one or two seasons, just gon na take a quick look at those belts, i'm just looking for cracking and i'm also looking for tension on it.

So this one of course, is not going to have any tension on it until you pull the lever and that's the one, that's running your auger and it has a a lever that does so and i pull the lever up top. So it's touching right there and then all that is spring. So all that is preload on there and it's more than enough somewhere on that cable will have a spring it's down below and you see even in the crack there. If you can see it they're spraying right down in there, so that just kind of maintains tension on it.

Sometimes you'll have an adjustment yeah that one does where you can slide it. If the belt starts getting a little worn, you can adjust the idler pulley on it and the other one is tension all the time it's already preloaded, which seems pretty good and again that's inside the gearbox with the lever - and we already looked at that. I said we throw the shoot we can put this cover on and we'll go look at putting that shoot on there. I don't know why they took that apart, uh, one guess.

Oh that's what i wanted to talk about. One thing i was guessing on is: maybe they didn't have much storage space because the handles were loose so some, i wonder if somebody had the handles folded over and they kind of like shoved it in the corner, maybe even put it on its side. Maybe that's. Why all the oil got in there? It's kind of weird that, like even this side, is loose too people, do it with lawn mowers.

Also yeah, it's not good for the cables did seem like it's really large house that it was at. But that's my guess is it was folded up pushed in the corner, maybe underneath the workbench or something somebody folded it uh, tucked it, maybe even back on its side or up on its front in the oil got up inside here and contaminated it. He brought it out, maybe fired it up and tried getting it running and it was smoking like a pig and he just said: that's it. I'm done i'm getting a bigger machine and toss this one to the curb, and maybe that's why this is off also just to make a little bit more room, a little tinier package, where it's not sticking out pop like that all right, i'm gon na get some Covers on and then we'll put that on everything went back together, pretty good, i'm gon na put a little bit of oil in it because i think we're a tad low.

I wonder why and ah there they are. I got a couple bolts left over like: where do they go right there? Why would they take those out, though? What was the point of of doing that? All right explained. I hate when you have extra hardware. It looks pretty good, though it's a plain machine.

It's no electric start, no speed control! No reverse! It's just gassing you! These are good for like doing your sidewalks, you don't have a ton of snow or you don't get that much snow. This is something that you would use or if the person is, how do i put this uh physically challenged, we'll go with that, so you're, a smaller person or elderly, or something some of the big machines are really hard to muscle around. I think this would probably be fairly easy. You would think would have electric start, though, for you know that part of it too, but i think she's good to go gon na go throw these back in uh, depending on what surface it would get used on.

I would drop the shoes down so, if you're on a good, clean, pavement, you're gon na, let the scraper on the bottom go right down to the pavement. But if you have a little bit of gravel or uneven surfaces or your pavements falling apart, you're going to take these and drop them down and leave about about a half inch behind b. It worked out pretty good, i'm going to go, throw those in. I think that's got it she's a winner.

Not a great machine, like i said, is very minimalist of a snowblower, but again hey for it's on the side of the road for free and not needing much love, i'm happy with it. It's probably worth not better. If i'd sell an open market - 150 bucks - maybe yeah it's clean, i think so i got maybe one or two seasons on it too. Bad.

I didn't need a blown head gasket. I would have fun to tear into, but i don't get to choose what their ailments are right. We just kind of drag them home and see what they got, what it takes to fix them again. I don't know quite why all that plastic was taken off of it.

I can see trying to get to the carburetor, maybe to fix something more for the smoke, but why the the shooting everything was starting to get taken off that i don't know so you are welcome to leave your thoughts. Let me know, you think happened to it. What the problem was, or you know why they did what they did. It's all speculation right, all right guys with that, i'm going to sign off.

Thank you all for hanging out with me wrenching. I got some other big projects, i'm working on, i kind of want to wait till they're, more filmed and done instead of filming one and not having it quite done, because parts are an issue so something i would think that is going to come in a couple Days takes two weeks to come in and i don't want to put a video up and then not have the following one for it. Parts and pieces are poking around there's a little bit of something on the floor as a teaser and there's some really big stuff. Coming too with that i'll sign off, and you can even guess on what those are, if you like, all right guys, i'm done i'll see you take care.

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