Recent content by mgrommesh

Once I had the shaft off the gear slides off the end. Those gears just float on the shaft is what I found. The shims keep them from rubbing on the bearing and all that keeps them from coming off the end is the fact that the gears are meshed together. The gear did not slide easy at first I...

I dug into mine today and found that the collar on the cross shaft bearing had broke the rim on the bearing and wedges between the bearing and gear causing the gears to run tight. Running like this also caused the bearings on both ends of the cross shaft to start running elliptical. When I...

Thanks for the info. I have it in the shop thawing and will check that tomorrow.

Wondering if you found how the gears move. I have this same blower and something moved so the bevel gears are now binding on my snow blower.