Need Help for my Toro 1028 Original Message Feb 27, 2011 11:38 am
It seems that I have some oil leaking out of the right wheel. It might be a wheel bearing or something, I'm not sure. I did check the oil level and it's ok. The other thing is I am noticing that with even less snow it seems to be down on power running the engine at full rpm's and 1st gear it just seems to have a lot less power eating into even 6 inches of even mild snow. It was not doing this during the last storm and this storm was only 6 inches. I'm wondering if something might be wrong with the friction disc?
Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
Re: Need Help for my Toro 1028 Reply #16 Feb 27, 2011 11:32 pm
Paul7 wrote:
Steve I'm still trying to understand what happening. When you say it has less power eating into six inches of snow. Do you mean less wheel drive or less power blowing it...I think it's the wheel power because you said that it blows the snow just as far as before.
Just a shot because you noted having trouble keeping it going straight...perhaps the remote wheel locking mechanism is malfunctioning. If one wheel isn't fully locking to the axle that will produce less drive and the pulls to the side. With the grease or oil coming from the wheel it would be worth checking out.
It actually bogs down like it's really working to move that small amount of snow and it acts like I'm blowing 20 inches of snoww instead of 6". It pulls left and right much more that it should. I'll have to take it apart a bit and see if something is wrong inside. It feels like a 3HP engine instead of a 10HP engine. It might very well be that wreath did something to the friction plate or the drive mechanism. I'll test it tomorrow and then pull it apart and take pics.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
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Re: Need Help for my Toro 1028 Reply #17 Feb 27, 2011 11:53 pm
Steve, my 2 cents. I think if at all you have 2 separate problems. The wreath is an auger/impeller issue and as far as I can see has nothing to do with your drive issue.The bogging down issue is something with your auger/impeller not moving as freely as before lending one to assume either something still in there or something wrong with that very area. The traction problem is a drive issue which I believe is its own problem.
Re: Need Help for my Toro 1028 Reply #18 Mar 1, 2011 5:36 pm
Ok the rain and flooding have stopped so I was finally able to get to a few things. I really wiped down the grease on the wheel so it was like new. Then I used it for a while blowing slush. Then I had to clear the stairs for the delivery guys to get into our front door that we don't use and that was a LOT of ice and I mean big huge fricking chunks of ice. The ice was so hard I could see the plastic on the auger return chute buckle from the chunks that hit it. It bogged a little bit but I think it was bad gas if you can call that crap with 10% ethanol, gas!
I put Sta-bil in the blower and in the gas can as well and that seemed to help with the surging so it might have just been some water in the gas. So far no new grease on the wheel, so for now everything looks good. i'll have the dealer check it later but my garage is just too wet to kneel in and take things apart for right now.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
Re: Need Help for my Toro 1028 Reply #19 Mar 4, 2011 9:27 am
Thanks for all the help guys, everything is now back to 100%! Somehow a small branch got inside the unit and was causing problems. It probably came off the wreath. The gas was also an issue and probably had water in it, damn ethanol!
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
Re: Need Help for my Toro 1028 Reply #20 Mar 4, 2011 12:50 pm
Steve_Cebu wrote:
Thanks for all the help guys, everything is now back to 100%! Somehow a small branch got inside the unit and was causing problems. It probably came off the wreath. The gas was also an issue and probably had water in it, damn ethanol!
That's great. There's a big storm coming your way. :)
Re: Need Help for my Toro 1028 Reply #21 Mar 4, 2011 6:25 pm
aa335 wrote:
That's great. There's a big storm coming your way. :)
Yeah, but it's all rain.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
Re: Need Help for my Toro 1028 Reply #23 Mar 6, 2011 12:37 am
Paul7 wrote:
trouts2 - Good diagnosis
Steve - Glad it's back to normal. The deepest snow we ever got in PA was in mid-March so it's not quite spring yet.
Hi Paul7, yeah Trouts2 was right on the money and very helpful, everyone was and I really appreciate it.
I'll still have teh dealer go over everything for next year in case I missed something. So far it's warm and everything is melting but we could still get blasted by more snow. Either way it's ok by me.
"If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England." "If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England."
