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Steve_Cebu
 
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Re: Help, have new 2012 Honda HS928 have questions.
Reply #51 Nov 13, 2011 7:32 pm |
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Sorry for another question. What do you mean by "Jane's publication"? It is not a common phrase in MN.
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Here is a link if it's military Jane's has it. http://www.amazon.com/Janes-Tanks-Combat-Vehicles-Recognition/dp/0004724526 http://articles.janes.com/articles/indepth/jiw.html http://jawa.janes.com/public/jawa/index.shtml
"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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Whoha
Location: Minneapolis
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Re: Help, have new 2012 Honda HS928 have questions.
Reply #52 Nov 20, 2011 9:13 am |
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The meager snowfall in Minneapolis gave me some user time on my Honda, I did 3 driveways. Here is what I found out with that very very short time of use. I found that I need to always be around 1/4 throttle to engage the trans. Going from fwd to rev is great and is fluid. I am having a hard time relearning the right hand shoot turning handle. It seems just SO unnatural. Time will change that. With such little wet snow I have only that to go by on how this Honda is compared in performance to my Yamaha. As it sits with this snowfall I feel the Yamaha can throw snow farther, and has more torque, but it is a new tight motor, so I will have to give it time to break-in the motor. I did do some heavy load runs on a bike path next to my house. I would throw snow directly in front of the snowblower so I could put a nice load on the motor to start the proper high load piston ring break-in procedure. If we have wimpy snowfalls and I can't get a good load on the machine I will keep doing the bike path runs so I can break the motor in right. I will be doing my first oil change today. I did notice that the Honda has a very conservative governor system. After about 5 hours of break-in time I think I will turn up the rpm another 200rpms. Depending on how the governor system is designed, this may help that issue out.
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MN_Runner
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
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Re: Help, have new 2012 Honda HS928 have questions.
Reply #54 Nov 20, 2011 11:27 am |
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The meager snowfall in Minneapolis gave me some user time on my Honda, I did 3 driveways. Here is what I found out with that very very short time of use. I found that I need to always be around 1/4 throttle to engage the trans. Going from fwd to rev is great and is fluid. I am having a hard time relearning the right hand shoot turning handle. It seems just SO unnatural. Time will change that. With such little wet snow I have only that to go by on how this Honda is compared in performance to my Yamaha. As it sits with this snowfall I feel the Yamaha can throw snow farther, and has more torque, but it is a new tight motor, so I will have to give it time to break-in the motor.
I did do some heavy load runs on a bike path next to my house. I would throw snow directly in front of the snowblower so I could put a nice load on the motor to start the proper high load piston ring break-in procedure. If we have wimpy snowfalls and I can't get a good load on the machine I will keep doing the bike path runs so I can break the motor in right. I will be doing my first oil change today.
I did notice that the Honda has a very conservative governor system. After about 5 hours of break-in time I think I will turn up the rpm another 200rpms. Depending on how the governor system is designed, this may help that issue out. Whoha, "high load piston ring break-in procedure" seems really interesting and exotic. It would be great if you can take a CT scan pre and post of the procedure since intra-operative MRI maybe too dangerous.
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