Hello, all.
Last night I was able to finally use a snowblower I was given. Im sorry but I dont know the model number off hand, but the stickers say its a Toro 421 2 stage snowblower. I dont know how many HP. It has 3 forward speeds and one reverse. It certainly isnt new. Carb was rebuilt a week ago (at a shop) and now the engine runs great.
The machine runs great, but last night we got around 7 inches of powdery snow. I have a long driveway and about halfway down the snowblower was plowing the snow ahead of it rather than throwing it. There was some snow being blown, but not at the velocity it had at the beginning of the run. It was similar to how water will come out of an end of hose at full bore, then taper off as you closed the valve; snow was moving, but obviously I was moving forward faster than the machine could clear the snow ahead of it. I was in the slowest forward gear.
I dont have a lot of experience with 2 stage blowers, but I thought they were pretty good at removing a lot of snow. However this seemed to take longer and more laborious for the machine than it should. I would move forward around 10-15 feet till the snow was sort of unenthusiastically coming from the chute, then have to let the unit catch up (at which point the snow was being thrown as normal), then move forward again etc... The engine never bogged down and seemed to run fine the entire time.
Any ideas on what to do? I understand I can adjust the auger speed? Could belts need tightening? Could it be as simple as tightening the rod that goes from the trigger to the whateveritis that its connected to? (theres a rod that has a clevis at the end; the clevis can be moved up and down the rod and I assume increase or decrease travel of the thing its connected to, which is the activation for the auger/impeller device).
Although it doesnt appear as such, Im confident I can fix this myself if given some advice. Especially since the blower repair place wants the unit for more than a week and we are supposed to have more snow in that time period. Thanks in advance!!!
Jason
