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Re: Did I damage my new Honda?
#1   Dec 2, 2012 1:00 am
I anti-seized the blower and auger shafts and installed a new shear bolt. The noise is gone and all seems well. All I need to do now is coat the inside of the header and chute with canola oil since I live here in Washington and the snow is always heavy and wet. If I had a little more dough I would have gotten one of the bigger models to deal with it but I found that if I just push the machine a little harder it doesn't plug as much. Thanks for the advice.
Re: Did I damage my new Honda?
#2   Nov 29, 2012 9:02 pm
Thanks for the quick responses. I don't had any photos of the branch because my first reaction was to throw it as far as I could. The branch was pointing straight towards the machine, and my guess is that it skipped the auger and stuck straight into the blower and immediately killed the engine. At least that was what it looked like. I saw that the bolts weren't broken and continued working. When I was done I took my earplugs out and engaged the auger clutch with the engine at it's slowest speed and heard a strange metallic clicking sound. That was when I started investigating and found the blower shear bolt had been almost broken. It had a step in it as if it had come close to shearing but didn't, and was slightly bent in the very middle of the bolt. I think the clicking was from the play created by the bent bolt. I have taken your advise and disassembled the header of the machine and will anti-seize the shafts, and I will add grease fittings soon. Great advise. Also, I'm fairly certain the machine was running full throttle when this happened. I'm going to get new shear bolts tomorrow and will hope this solves the strange sound. Thanks again.
Did I damage my new Honda?
#3   Nov 29, 2012 7:59 pm
I just used my brand new Honda 724ta snowblower for the first time. While working, I pulled a large branch into the auger and instead of shearing a bolt I killed engine. I thought shear bolts were meant to keep that from happening. The machine started right back up and ran fine afterwards but I'm concerned that something could have been damaged. Maybe someone here could put me at ease, or explain to me why the engine died instead of the bolt shearing. Also, I removed the bolt on the blower, not the auger, and it was slightly bent as if it had come close to breaking. Any advise would be appreciated. I realize I'm probably just being paranoid, but this damn machine was not cheap!
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