Jay4200
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2005
- Messages
- 2,028
- Location
- Hudson/Weare, NH
- Tractor
- L4200GST w/ LA680 & BX2200D w/ LA211
well I sure don't know how you guys are getting your pins to simply fall out when they break. I go through about a dozen breaks a season and almost always have to punch them out which is a huge pain with the impeller.
Pins for me are either 5.07 or 4.01 from Kubota which is crazy. I know this is an old thread, but I am still looking for a solution to Kubotas insane prices on these bolts. I also live very remote and have to blow 1.5 km of road so I cant afford a major failure due to something so simple as a bolt. I have now been reading half the afternoon and still don't know if I can neck down my own bolts or just use grade 5 or 8 1/4 bolts.
Your problem doesn't seem to be pins, your problem is not prepping your area before the snow flys. I make sure there isn't a rock bigger than a golf ball w/in 5 feet of where I clear - I think I've broken 4 shear pins in the 7 years I've been running my big blower, and 3 of them were from cutting power before the blower was clear of snow (always a mistake).
I looked everywhere for cheap shear bolts for my BX2750D. Kubota uses a bolt that is ~1/4" longer than the standard bolt that every other blower in the whole world uses, and I wasn't able to find any generic replacements in the normal places (like Amazon). I ended up biting the bullet and buying factory bolts. They're part number 70060-01338 and $2.46 at Messics.