BrianC
Member
My experience is quite different than the rest I guess....
I continually sheared the bolts on my snowblower for about a year. I changed to the hardened bolts about 10 years ago and have had no problems (other than shearing those bolts under hard conditions) since then. No instructions with the blower so I dont know if I am doing right or wrong.
One interesting note, I guess, is that I took the drive chain to the shop to have a link removed ( the chain was loose) and I was told that since the chain had stretched that there was something wrong with the unit, no chain should stretch to require removal of a link. Well I come from the motorcycle age when everything was driven by chain ( no driveshaft) and you always had an adjustment to tighten the chain and you also had a splicing link to alow the removal of chain links.
Anyway I am not sure that my use of the hardened bolts is correct, but I know regular bolts would not work in my case.
I continually sheared the bolts on my snowblower for about a year. I changed to the hardened bolts about 10 years ago and have had no problems (other than shearing those bolts under hard conditions) since then. No instructions with the blower so I dont know if I am doing right or wrong.
One interesting note, I guess, is that I took the drive chain to the shop to have a link removed ( the chain was loose) and I was told that since the chain had stretched that there was something wrong with the unit, no chain should stretch to require removal of a link. Well I come from the motorcycle age when everything was driven by chain ( no driveshaft) and you always had an adjustment to tighten the chain and you also had a splicing link to alow the removal of chain links.
Anyway I am not sure that my use of the hardened bolts is correct, but I know regular bolts would not work in my case.