Roonabeck
Silver Member
Hi all,
We hardly had any snow this year in the northeast (especially compared to last year), but we got a bonus 5 or so inches on Monday. I might have just let it melt on its own, but since I still hadn't gotten around to taking the snowblower off the back (despite multiple days in the 60s), I went ahead and got it out and started blowing the driveway in front of the garage. I cleared some of the area directly by the garage door and was making my second pass down to the road. The build-up from the plows at the bottom of the driveway didn't seem too bad, but just before I got through it on that second pass, the blower and PTO stopped and so did my backwards motion. There was some noise from the general area of the transmission as well.
At this point, no forward, no reverse, and no PTO. I did disengage the PTO and then re-engage it, and I saw it briefly start to turn the blower before it stopped moving again. No noticeable load on the engine with the clutch out and PTO engaged. Seems like I broke something in or near the clutch since it won't move in any gear under its own power either. I used a come-along to pull the thing into the garage and am finally headed out to spend some time with it now. The shear bolt on the snowblower remained intact and it didn't appear that I hit anything immovable, just had the engine under a fairly heavy load.
Presumably I need to split it at the bell housing and see what I find?
We hardly had any snow this year in the northeast (especially compared to last year), but we got a bonus 5 or so inches on Monday. I might have just let it melt on its own, but since I still hadn't gotten around to taking the snowblower off the back (despite multiple days in the 60s), I went ahead and got it out and started blowing the driveway in front of the garage. I cleared some of the area directly by the garage door and was making my second pass down to the road. The build-up from the plows at the bottom of the driveway didn't seem too bad, but just before I got through it on that second pass, the blower and PTO stopped and so did my backwards motion. There was some noise from the general area of the transmission as well.
At this point, no forward, no reverse, and no PTO. I did disengage the PTO and then re-engage it, and I saw it briefly start to turn the blower before it stopped moving again. No noticeable load on the engine with the clutch out and PTO engaged. Seems like I broke something in or near the clutch since it won't move in any gear under its own power either. I used a come-along to pull the thing into the garage and am finally headed out to spend some time with it now. The shear bolt on the snowblower remained intact and it didn't appear that I hit anything immovable, just had the engine under a fairly heavy load.
Presumably I need to split it at the bell housing and see what I find?