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zippo2008
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Do Ariens snowblowers have Hydrostatic drives like Honda snowblowers ?
Original Message Sep 4, 2008 12:10 pm |
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Hello,
A friend of mine has a Honda with a hydrostatic drive, and from what he explained to me, this enables you to change gears on your snowblower, without having to stop moving with the machine,
in order to change the gear, and then get that movement going again by pressing down on the gear lever ( on your right handle bar )
Does anyone know if the Ariens brand of snow blowers use this hydraulics system for gearing ?
I'm looking at the model: http://www.ariens.com/products_snow/s_deluxe_1130dle_features.aspx
also, if anyone know where to find an online manual for any of the Ariens brand snow blowers I'd really appreciate any info
Thanks for any info.
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snowmachine
Location: Washington State
Joined: Nov 12, 2008
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Re: Do Ariens snowblowers have Hydrostatic drives like Honda snowblowers ?
Reply #17 Dec 3, 2008 11:11 pm |
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I just bought this machine and it seems closer to the this Husqvarna: http://www.usa.husqvarna.com/node3099.aspx?nid=84620&pid=78456 Same variable drive without the handwarmers and the Tec engine. Since they are no longer in business I'm glad that it has a B&S engine. Snowmachine, thanks for the parts site link. My model number is 917.881063 and when I did a search nothing shows up on the Sears web site. They used the model number 917.881060 which was slightly different and is one of the numbers in this series, but not my specific model number. Note: I hate the variable speed drive. I find it very frustrating to control the speed on my unit. I've only used it once, but would prefer to KNOW if I am going to start moving this thing what speed it will take off. Maybe it is just me, but does anyone else have some frustration with the drive speed? I also don't like that the chute only rotates 180 degrees. My older machine rotated much farther and I came to use that extra flexibility. Note: my chute rotation control cable already melted against the hot muffler. Make sure that yours doesn't contact the cable. On the Sears site above the cable is not sold alone but as a $70 part of assembly. That sucks if it wasn't under warranty. Once the plastic shell is melted through you loose some control over the chute. I was thinking of taking my back and picking up the Ariens ST1130DLE: http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100646422&N=+501670+3042+90401 What do you guys think? Rick
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nibbler
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Friction Disk Replacement
Reply #18 Dec 4, 2008 9:23 am |
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Borat, you mentioned pvrp but I thought you might have meant me since I mentioned replacing a friction disk. I have a hunch the main wear and tear on the unit is two fold: - Engaging and disengaging; and
- Low speed settings ( inner edge of contact point compared to outer edge moves more percentage wise).
Long swaths at a constant, high speed setting probably allows you to log the most miles before changes. is I do 10-20 short driveways, sometimes with a lot of start and stopping. There is a large amount of EOD work at low speed. It all adds up to friction wheels wearing out. That why I would prefer being able to put on a steel belted radial "tire"  instead of replacing the whole wheel. |
borat
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Re: Friction Disk Replacement
Reply #19 Dec 4, 2008 10:34 am |
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Borat, you mentioned pvrp but I thought you might have meant me since I mentioned replacing a friction disk. I have a hunch the main wear and tear on the unit is two fold: - Engaging and disengaging; and
- Low speed settings ( inner edge of contact point compared to outer edge moves more percentage wise).
Long swaths at a constant, high speed setting probably allows you to log the most miles before changes. is I do 10-20 short driveways, sometimes with a lot of start and stopping. There is a large amount of EOD work at low speed. It all adds up to friction wheels wearing out. That why I would prefer being able to put on a steel belted radial "tire" instead of replacing the whole wheel. You do 10-20 driveways every snow fall? I assume that you're in a snow removal business? I do a fair amount of snow removal. Obviously not on the scale that you do but I got well over ten years each out of my old Craftsman machines and the drive systems were still going strong on them when I replaced them.
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pvrp
Joined: Nov 14, 2008
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Re: Hydrostatic drives
Reply #20 Dec 5, 2008 10:13 am |
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pvrp: What kind of machine are you operating that you had to change two friction disk drives on?
I could understand maybe once in twenty years of heavy use but twice? Sounds like something
must have been out of whack. I thought this as well. The speed selection rod, which has a cotter pin right on the end passes very close to the friction disk when changing speeds and I thought at first that the cotter pin was chewing up the rubber. There were big chunks of rubber taken out of the disk. Try as I might I was not able to get the two parts to come in contact manually. The second disk suffered the same fate. It may be caused by shifting on the fly, something to be avoided I've since read. I don't usually shift speeds while moving (certainly never between forward and reverse) but I have dragged the speed down from a higher speed on a couple of occasions, not often. This year I'll be a bit more careful and see if it makes a difference. What usually happens it that everything is fine, no sign of wear, and then all of a sudden traction goes to hell and when I look the disc has self-destructed. Takes about 4 years. Paul
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Clay
Location: Wis
Joined: Dec 3, 2008
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Re: Do Ariens snowblowers have Hydrostatic drives like Honda snowblowers ?
Reply #21 Dec 5, 2008 10:22 pm |
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Very nice pictorial essay. Your cables are farther to the side than mine are. My cables cross right over the top of the muffler. I didn't have the small zip tie on those cable like you do either. I did notice a couple of nice things that it looks like you did after you bought your machine. One is the keeper wire on the engine start key. I was wondering what I would do if I lost that thing. I also noticed some white grease on the auger shaft. Did it come greased or did you do some preventative maintenance on your new machine. I also noticed some blue grease on one of the zerts in the photo.
One of the hairpin hitchpin clips came out of the drive control connection and I thought that I broke a belt or a shear pin. I was glad it was just a missing hairpin hitchpin. I bought a package of 10 of them for $.99. I have the service rep coming to the house tomorrow - Sat. Your picture layout makes me think that I should document my machine as well. I'll try to take some pictures before and after on the cable routing. Any ideas on what is the difference between the 917.881063 and the 917.881064? For that matter what is the difference between the 60 and the 63. I see that the 60 was advertised as having 8 speeds, 6 forward and 2 reverse and the 63 comes with variable speeds. I wonder if the 64 changed the location of the cables slightly and they knew about this issue with the muffler. Rick
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