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

In full snowblower hunt mode and came across this, http://smllengns.tripod.com/  . apparently this gizmo will increase the throw of a blower. Had a kookey idea eariler tonight of getting a used blower, a 24/25" Aries, Toro, etc. and putting a 9 hp motor in it, and changing pulley size to make it throw snow greater.Must have been the 2 beers cause in reality I do not have the time to work on a blower, thus buying a new one.

nibbler wrote: All snow engines from B&S and Tecumseh are available in 3/4, 1" and often 7/8" shaft. Another option is an output shaft on the camshaft, used by some Craftsman and MTD units.

You can get a 7 hp with a 1" inch shaft, or a 10hp with a 3/4" - as well as 1", 1 1/8, and tapered.

Tulsa and some others have the line drawings. Or you can call Tecumseh or B&S up and ask them. B&S faxed me a  data sheet on replacing an  Ariens. Tecumseh confirmed I could use 5-7 hp HMSK as a bolt-on replacement.

Garandman wrote:
I must have gotten the wrong part number for the engine. I exchanged e-mails with B&S several times and thought I had picked the correct one. It was my understainding that the shaft size got bigger with the larger HP engines so they wouldn't break.. I'm actually slightly happier with the larger shaft size, I got to play while doing the install and the shaft is hopefully a bit more "robust".