Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

HI all,

I just bought an Ariens 624E snowblower and it was deliverd today. My question is it seems to run best with the choke partially on. I havn't been really able to blow any snow to really warm it up good as all out snow here in NH is basically solid as ice right now.

Could it be that it just needs a good long time to warm up?  Also it is an OHV engine and I have heard that they sometimes need to be run with choke partially on because the emmision seetings cause them to run so very lean.

I followed the manual exactly and started it on low throttle full choke and then slowly backed off the choke but when i get to the last choke seeting it starts to sputter out. If i return quickly to the higher choke setting it goes right back to running great again.

I was hoping someone had some info or thoughts on this. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

HI all, Just thought I would throw out an update on my new machine. Went back and re read my manual and figured out what I was doing wrong and it has run like a champ ever since. I have to say it just feels better made than the sears machine it is replacing. Even got to test it out on a nice powdery 6" snowfall and it threw it 50'+.

 Tonight/tommorow will be it's true test though 6-10" of heavy wet snow, (going to put us over 100" for the year). 

 As I said just wanted to update so as the machine didn't get a bad rap for my stupid error.

 Don't keep us in suspence!    What was your fix?

NHsnowman wrote:
What were you doing wrong? 

Well I feel pretty stupid but I was actually reading the choke control wrong.

I have always had machines where far right is no choke and on this one that is full choke. So when I looked at the symbol of course I saw a symbol for no choke (vertical symbol) when it was actually the symbol for choke (diaganol symbol).

So there I was starting it without choke (and it started great by the way), letting it warm up and then choking it out.  Thankfully I decided to re read the instructions more closely and figured out my dumb mistake pretty much right away.

Live and learn I guess.

thats funny