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

Hi......

Hopefully someone can shine some light on this question. We have a Craftsman 9/28 model # (247.888350), the original manufacture is MTD. It requires a rubber friction disk replacement and I'm wondering if it's safe to stand the snowblower on the Auger Housing. It would make it extremally easier to replace if I could. The idea came from a newer MTD Snowblower manual it just warned about emptying the gas tank or sealing the gas cap. My concern how the engine oil or possibly the carb would be effected while being on it's side.

Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

Thanks,

928user

When I work on the bottom inside compartment of my snow thrower, I alway tip the machine forward onto the auger housing.  Depending on your engine (L head), you may have some crank case oil enter the cylinder through the valves.  This could cause ignition problems if you accumulate too much oil in the cylinder but mine has always started albeit with quite a bit of smoke for the first few seconds.  Drain your fuel tank, turn off your fuel valve (if you have one) then tip it over. 

Thanks for the reply. Does your snowblower have a techumsa engine with a L-head?

Thanks,

928user

928user wrote:

Not the one I have now.  It has the ohv Briggs & Stratton engine which is a real gem to work with.  My previous two machines that I used for nearly twenty years had the 10 h.p. Tecumseh L head engines.  Reliable but noisy  and lots of vibration.   My new Simplicity has the 9.5 h.p. engine (that's what the label reads anyway).   Three of my  neighbours all have 10 h.p. Tecumseh engines on fairly new Craftsman and Yard works machines (MTD).  The Simplicity easily doubles the distance of two of the machines and at least a third farther than the best of their three.  I doubt that my B&S is a 9.5 with that kind of propulsion.    Either way, I'm more than impressed with the machine's ability to move large volumes of snow quickly without seeming to be working nearly as hard as my old L head engines did.