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

Here in MA clearing snow from my driveway I noticed the bottom end of my speed selector shaft (or rod or connector- not sure what to call it) danglingling on the ground instead of being attached to a rod coming out of the rear plate. I know little about how snoblowers work so i took it back to my garage and discovered the bottom end of the speed selector can be reconnected to the steel rod coming out of the housing with a cotter pin. So I inserted the first cpin I found and continued on with my snoblowing. But then I discovered that my fwd speeds put me in reverse and my rev speeds ran me fwd. 1. How do I adjust this so I everything is back to normal and my fwd speeds go fwd and rev speeds go backwds? 2. when adjusting that wearbar under the leading edge of the augurbox should it be even with the augurbox or stick out beyond the abox- and if so how far? 1/4,1/2 inch? I just discovered this website and it looks great.

The owners manual has a good discussion of how this is done.

Ariens dot com makes most of their manuals availble for free download online. Just go to the site, select support and enter your model and serial numbers to get the set up manual.

it sounds like to me that when the rod came disconnected the shaft on the blower swung past the halfway point (friction wheel moved past half way)... so disconnect the rod from the shaft and swing the shaft (friction wheel) the other way past the halfway point then re-install rod.. hope that makes some sense

That worked! I removed bottonm plate covering friction wheel and whem I turned that shaft 1/2 turn it moved fr wheel over to the left. I reconnected shaft and all my fwd/rev speeds/directions work as intended.Thanks for asvice.

Raygg wrote:
NICE!!!

Mine, the same model, broke in the identical location and did the same thing last year! 

I think I'll preventatively replace the cotter now with something hardened.