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

Hi all there it is finally, my ariens has been restore all over. It took me 40 hours of labor to put my Ariens back in shape. I got this blower for 125$ last Feb, and notice it was in bad shape. I put on a new auger belt, auger bushing, shear bolts and nuts, new sticker ST824( original sticker comes with the steel plate discontinuated). Carburator was clogged and unajusted, I have to dismantle auger assembly, one of the shear bolts was broken and the rake was stock in  rust. I had to cut it to get it off. Gear case was OK but change the gasket and liquid grease. Recoil starter rope wasnt,there, one of the muffler bolts was stripped, eye bolt that hold the chute rod was broken too. I still got the wheel chains but I dont know if I am going to put them back on, I may thinking to get new hogs will see!

here's some picture

BEFORE

at left is my very old viking 1 stage built by MTD Products in the early 1970's. The MTD model is 325-470-514 (Viking 6743).  

AFTER

Wow, major improvement, sounds like you had to do a lot of work to it. Good job.

I have chains for my blower which I use occasionally but most of the time the tires are fine. I've found most of the time when they started slipping it was best that they did since I was going too fast and the snow wasn't being thrown as fast as it was coming in. Either that or I hit some really hard icey snow and needed to break it up by hand and then use the thrower to get rid of the chunks. If you have too much traction then you can break the transmission. They can be handy to back out of a place you got bogged down in.

nibbler wrote:

Nibbler, I agree with about breaking the transmission, a snowblower is not a tank :) anyway on my Viking I never had chain and the job was done. Like you said They can be handy to back out of a place you got bogged down in.

Have a good week-end!

Incredible restore job Dennis.   You definitely brought that fine machine back to life.  I wish that I had the patience and skills to tackle a job like that.  Regarding the chains, I'd use them...but only if they didn't rub against the side of the snow blower. 

Great job Denis! Did you strip the old paint or just sand it a little and paint with primer.
What type of paint did you use?
I'm trying to do that same with my Toro 824. There are many parts with surface rust like the shroud etc.

My hats off to you Denis!

More_Power wrote:

Yes I stripped the surface to the steel with this fantastic tool from

Then applied 2 coats of rust killer primer from rustcheck product (thin coats for best result)

And finally duplicolor engine enamel (in my case D1620 for Ariens)

For extra strengh, you may use Auto Spray® Clear Top Coat DS125