Electric chute deflector for my tractor snowblower

[smfcpacfp]

smfcpacfp,

Great job and excellent write-up. I can never get enough of these electric actuation mods. It is interesting to see how each individual makes this mod to his/her needs.

I noted in your original post "The mount on the chute seems a little flimsy with a little vibration". I might suggest (and only a suggestion but has worked for us), placing a bolt with lock nut where the manual tightener would go on the right hand side (yellow circle). It is hard to tell, but it appears there is one on the left hand side (green circle). We didn't fasten the nut tight but only enough to allow the channel on the deflector chute a path to follow. For us it seems to 'balance' the deflector as it was lowered and raised.

I apologize for my lack of technical terms and again, thank you for your post.

lost

I will do that.

 

[msb1766]

Here is a short video of mine:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKW7-iXPRc
I used existing holes on the chute and made the brackets to fit the actuator.