Toro 824 shear bolts are just softer bolts Original Message Jan 11, 2009 4:06 pm
Even though the drawing doesnt call them shear bolts, my 10 year old machine snapped one in three pieces. Being the "nice guy" I was doing several senior citizen's sidewalk when I ate a cast iron water shut off cover. Stopped the auger dead. After a partial dissasembly to remove the stuck piece of metal I found the sheared bolt. I removed the good side to see what I needed to buy and its a grade 5 , 2-1/2" hex head bolt with a special separate bushing/spacer. It has no cut down areas on the shank like a regular shear bolt. Looks like a special trip to the Toro dealer. I dont have any spares since "Toro's dont require shear bolts".........yeah right!
Local hardware store genius said " we just give people the grade 8 bolts instead" .......... YIKES!
Re: Toro 824 shear bolts are just softer bolts Reply #4 Jan 12, 2009 4:51 pm
Just returned from a 30 mile round trip to the Toro dealer. He doesnt stock any of the shear bolts or spacers for my 1996 824 Power shift. I found that to be totally amazing.
