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

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Tools Required –

 

Grease (your greases of choice)

Antisieze

10mm Wrench

10mm Socket

12mm Wrench

14mm Wrench

 

·      Remove support bracket that connects the Auger Transmission Housing. Four 10MM nuts/bolts on the top of the bucker and two that bolt direct to the Auger Housing.

·      Remove Blower Shear Bolt

·      Remove the Side Bolts that hold the Auger to the Bucket

·      Carefully slide the Auger Out

·      Remove Auger Shear Bolts and Slide Augers off.

·      Wipe old grease clean on the shafts, clean O Ring.

·      Apply  Marinegrade Grease/Antisieze on both the shafts as well as the impeller shaft

·      Clean the flanges that hold the Auger to the Bucket. Thoroughly apply Marinegrade grease to the flange as cup of the flange.

·      Put flanges back on Auger Ends and bolt everything back up. 

·      When putting back the shear bolts, I used a smigen if not less than a hairs breath of antisieze on the bolt. A little goes a looooooong way.

 

I could not bear not being up to OEM spec so I am holding off on painting the scratches in the impeller till I get Honda Paint Color R136 Diana Red.

 

 

While the Augers were out, I took the opportunity to do another heavy coating of sealant on the interior of the bucket. I also painted the Augers with Rustoleum Professional Black Paint. I like this paint as it is almost borderline industrial grade and has alot more solids in it.

Nice pictures.  I might find some time to do pull the auger and impeller to touch up the paint in the blower housing.  I am touching up the auger blades too.  I know it's OCD but at least I know she's perfect before going into the winter.

chefwong wrote:  
That touchup paint should be 08707-R280 Power Red.

Heh. This is only the beginning. There is where true OCD comes in

Come summertime, I'm going to gut her up again, touch up, wetsand, touch up, wetsand, clearcoat .
Take out my industrial steam cleaner, clean her up right, remove the weather sealant, and then do multiple layers of synthetic sealant.
Maybe even polish it with the buffer and  3 1/2" pad..

Man, that is OCD.  My car doesn't even get that kind of treatment.  :)

chefwong: Could you poste cropped pictures to not blow out the thread formatting?

Did you have any trouble getting the augers to slide off?  Did you try removing the pins with the cotters to check for corrosion there as well? These are some of the nicest photos I have seen on this auger assembly.   You could also buff the aluminum gear box with a very soft metal wire wheel. The aluminum will shine and you can clearcoat it to prevent oxidation.  As long as you are there, you could untread the fill bolt for gear oil on the gear box and anti-seize those threads. The steel threads of the bolt will sometimes corrode against the aluminum gearbox.

Trouts - The pics are semi hi res. Not 2560x1600 like my monitors but hi res enough that someone that was hesitent to do it would be able to see the details and not be hesitent to do it.

The augers slid right off. There was some clear grease and white lithium inside.
Bearing that this machine was not a new machine to me, I ~assume~ the machine was abused and give it a vigorous R&R.
Stage 2 of this is actually to replace some rusted parts, brush some others, polish & paint some other area's and bring it back to showroom spec in the summer.

I'm not sure what part of a 2 stager takes the most abuse but on mine, the areas that show surface rust/chippage is the wheel axle, the flat side on the impeller blades
and inside the impeller area, there is a couple of long horizontlish scratches that are down to bare metal.

With the Augers still out of the unit (3rd coat of paint was taking forever to dry), it should a be a breeze putting some blocks up to tackle the axle today.