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

I just used my 1350 for the first time (bought used about a month ago, but only a year old)... 944.527394 (well the model doesn't show up, but that's the right number - it's a 27 inch OHV B&S 1350 series 305 cc machine) It snowed about 5 inches of snow a couple of days ago and of course I had to deal with the snowplow "droppings" at the end of the driveway. It went through it all pretty good. Good shooting of the snow and no problems with things when I was blowing the snow. I come out to the garage the next morning and I thought 5 or 6 dogs took a leak on my garage door from the pool of yellow liquid I saw. I open up the garage door and see this pool of yellow liquid under the front of the blower and going out and under the garage door. Question, would this be the auger gear oil? It says it takes Ronex ED #1 (Extra Duty) and I think it is yellow in colour, but wow that just baffles me as to how much was there. After that there seemed to be some light green liquid there too. Maybe the other guy coated it with something, but I'm afraid to start the blower for fear of destroying the auger casing. No gas smell and the oil level is perfect at the fill level... Before I start taking things apart, I'd appreciate some input as to what this likely is and what I need to do (new auger gearcase maybe, new auger gasket,) Also good place to get parts in Canada? I see that these are Husky machines, but not sure if Craftsman parts are cheaper than Husky or not. good info in these threads so hoping borat or snowmachine can chime in http://www.abbysguide.com/ope/discussions/32378-A-1.html http://www.abbysguide.com/ope/discussions/33989-0-1.html Cheers

   The gearbox has the usual parts nothing weird in there and basic. 

    The auger support bearing is a flange bearing not a roller bearing which is unusual these days.  It's held on with two bolts which might be better with three or four which is industry standard.   

   There should be no impeller wiggle if you grab the drive shaft at the impeller and try to move the shaft.  If it moves then two flange support bolts may be loose. 

trouts2 wrote:

She might be a lemon but it sounds like the whole family is dysfunctional... even the estranged Husqvarna and Poulan cousins. :-) I still have a lot of fun with her though. I'll probably pull the auger pulley off in the spring to check on those flange support bolts.

Almost a year later.  How did we make out with this problem??

Slop or original thread leak issue?

both

I haven't done anything on mine in regards to slop. Mine doesn't have any leaks. After looking at all the other clone models in other Youtube videos it appears they all do that. It's turning out to be a hard winter here so we'll see if this winter affects reliability at all. I have to dig out of 3-4" of snow next weekend. Look at about 1:45 in this Youtube video. Here is a new Husqvarna doing the same thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ7HWDBuWf0

Correction on snow to dig out---> 3-4'