melting snowblower chute

[wesk]

Has anyone had their snowblower chute melt?: Put snowblower away today
off my gt2550. Left side of chute and chute deflector had been melted.Still
functional. Melted enough to curl bottom of chute deflector.

 

[Steve_Miller]

Has anyone had their snowblower chute melt?: Put snowblower away today
off my gt2550. Left side of chute and chute deflector had been melted.Still
functional. Melted enough to curl bottom of chute deflector.

We need some details on this scenario. I have weird pictures in my head of ways to melt a snowblower chute. Maybe I have no idea what a GT2550 is but Im thinking a small garden tractor/mower

Steve

 

[SHUNKSTER]

What are you runnin' in that thing Nitro? Kinda tuff to melt things in the winter

 

[wesk]

My driveway is fairly long. Run wide open throttle.This is the third winter with
blower. Maybe a cumulative thing?

 

[PILOON]

Is your exhaust pointing directly at the chute?

 

[jcappe]

Never heard of that happening before. Your exhaust comes straight out towards the shoot if I'm thinking right. Might have to put some sort of adapter on the exhaust to push the heat down during the winter.

 

[kruss77]

I had a similar problem to this -except my problem was that the exhaust was discoloring the paint on my blower housing. So I fabricated a make-shift 90* deflector (attached is a photo) which initally worked great but wasn't going to work as a long-term fix (it was a brass sink drain pipe that eventually burned through due to the extremely hot exhaust gas). I eventually found a Kohler 90* elbow which served as a more suitable long term solution.

 

[JTKub]

I'm surprised we haven't seen more instances of this the way the exhaust exits straight out the 'grille' on the 2006+ model year Cub 2K series. Depending how the thrower chute is positioned, it's right in the path of the exhaust.

Joel

 

[kruss77]

I know that it's next to impossible to be aware of EVERY conceivable interference that could occur between parts like this, but having the exhaust exit straight out the front seemed odd to me from the first time I saw my tractor. It was even more odd when I attached my snow blower to the tractor for the first time and saw that the exhaust exited directly onto the back of the blower housing 14" away.

 

[wesk]

JTKUB and Kruss77 are right.Seems like chute is directly in front of chute
about 50% of the time. Might have to do some sort of deflector. Don't
really want colder winter temps!