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Clutternut


Joined: Feb 27, 2005
Points: 2

Removing broken shear pins
Original Message   Feb 27, 2005 12:19 pm
Hi everyone. Great site. We have a MTD two-stage, model 3BA snow thrower. We're brand new to the art of snow removal by any means other than a shovel and you guessed it, we hit something on the second day and sheared the pins. There seems to be four of them and three of the holes still have part of the pin in there. I don't have a punch tool and even if I did, how are you supposed to swing a hammer in that small area? Do I have to remove the the intake housing (if thats what it's called) to get better access to the axle?
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solara


Location: Boston
Joined: Jun 16, 2004
Points: 252

Re: Removing broken shear pins
Reply #10   Mar 6, 2005 6:44 pm
found the head to a shear pin in the yard and realized that it had broken.  do not know when it had occurred.  (first storm? last storm?)

 most of the screw and  the nut were still in the shaft.  (and the rake was still only spinning w/ the shaft.)

Anyway  replaced it w/ the info from his thread.....starting w/ the tick list given by marc .

it was a realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll pain to get the old one out. the old one was bent. after a while  decided to remove the nut. that caused the screw to break in a second place.   that removed some of the bent screw shaft(?) and it finally came out.

Thanx

2004-2005 Ariens 11528LE
Jacobsen snow-burst
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