Lets see your snow removal weapons.


 
Damn there are some nice shops pictured. Mark, "only 2 pole barns?" I feel so bad for you :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: As far as you wanting snow. I hope you get what you need but PLEASE keep it up there. I'll be fine if it stays brown only around here
 
She’s alive. Soak the main jet in carb cleaner, cleaned the air filter and the spark plug, buttoned it all and she fired right up on who knows how old the gas is

For many years, my calendar included a tickler for Independence or Labor Day to put new gas into the snow blower and fire it up.

Good if it started. And if it didn't, enough time left before winter to get it working.

Soooo disappointing to have the blower fail to turn on with a big snow sitting on the driveway. And totally foreseeable if you haven't touched it for like 8 months.
 
Andy Kaminski said:
Nice shop Mark.
I love having a shop. Absolutely love it.
We are going to add a lager shop to this place and convert this existing shop into a man cave.
It is well sealed and has a large full apartment in the loft so I think a game room down stairs would work.
I also keep a shop in California.
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Snow removal wise?
I trade my tractor needs for BBQ with my neighbor buddy.
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Very nice Andy!!
 
I tell ya Chuck I’m afraid to try and start several of my smaller ICE powered items.
I tried the Firman generator last year and its carburetor was clogged up but good.
I took the lazy man’s way out and got a new Chinese one off of Amazon next day for $18.
At 18-20 bucks per unit I just might order replacements for some of the small engines I have.
 
ChuckO said:
This was included in the house purchase. I’ve got to pull the jets, they’re gunked up, not sure if I have to replace them or if they will come clean. I’ve got a cycle gear store in town, I lean towards just replacing the jets. Six forward gears and two reverse gears
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Chuck, I have the same Tecumseh motor on my snowblower. You can buy an aftermarket carburetor for those for about twenty bucks on eBay or Amazon. That's what I did a few years ago when my carb started acting up. For that money it's not even worth messing with the original one.
 
Steve Hoch said:
Chuck, I have the same Tecumseh motor on my snowblower. You can buy an aftermarket carburetor for those for about twenty bucks on eBay or Amazon. That's what I did a few years ago when my carb started acting up. For that money it's not even worth messing with the original one.
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I've actually got a bunch of carbs off dirt bikes from when the kids were little (I almost always put aftermarket carbs & pipes on the bikes) I want to try putting one of the carbs off one of the dirt bikes because of the tuning you can do (raise / lower the needle, swap jets, adjust lean mixture screw) I think a better carb would make this beast run like a beast
 
LMichaels said:
I am intimately familiar with these. Back in the late 60s and early 70s if I rebuilt and modded one I must have done at least 500 of them. I was the Rochester Whisperer :D

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Those were the days, LOL

We used to toss the Rochesters, put a Street Dominator Manifold paired with a Holley 650 and Doug Thorley Headers. Low Riders would put on Glass Packs or Cherry Bombs, and the High Riders would put on Thrush mufflers
 
I come from an age where we never "replaced" anything. We rebuilt everything. In all my time when I was wrenching (up until 1973) we rebuilt everything. Alternators, carbs, starters and starter solenoids. Brake cylinders (master, wheel, calipers name it), engine components. We had a machine shop and had to put our own rocker shafts on a lathe then install undersized rocker arms for valve train service. We weren't R&R techs. (remove/replace). We were R/R/R techs. remove, rebuild, reinstall.
 
I graduated the 8th grade in 1973. I had two Mack 9's on my go cart I sleaved them in my mom's oven (she was pissed) and replaced the Reed Valves. I figured I would someday be an Engineer for the IRL. I didn't do so good in High Skool, I ended up being an Accountant and Truck Driver (on the side) :)
 
Back then my friend's older brother raced carts back in the 60s. He had one cart with 4 engines Mac 10s IIRC and each one had multiple carbs too. They needed a stand with a 6hp Clinton horizontal shaft engine and a long belt to start the Macs The cart could literally light the tires. Smoking them all the way down a 75' driveway at their house. Insane amount of power for a go cart
 
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