FREE DISASSEMBLED YARDMAN 8.5 26" DUAL STAGE SNOWBLOWER PUT TOGETHER BUY MISSING PARTS TO REPAIR FIX

Hey guys, how you doing? It's Henry at mowers and mowers. Good morning So as you guys know, I got this thing. It is a yard man 8.5 26 clearing path dual stage snowblower. It's actually in pretty good shape My friend Mike from Mike's lawn service Babylon gave it to me his friend found it on the street And he was gonna try to get it working while the engine does start and run the The worm gear for the gearbox for the auger and impellers It's done I'll show you why it's done So here's the shaft the main shaft to the gearbox II And as you can see in here if you can It's rounded off and stripped The worm gear on the inside is okay on this side, but over here. It's just stripped to almost nothing So The kid took it apart, I don't know why he took it apart, but he just took it apart I guess just for the fact of taking it apart Sometimes it's fun just to take things apart, you know, and then try to put it back together again So I was gonna so he gave it to me I was gonna put this eight horse 8.5 horsepower to come say snow king engine into the my craftsman 826 also, right as You know it from previous episode. I tried to swap a Toro 8 horsepower onto that thing, but it was too wide and also the Crankshaft was an inch Whereas the pulley that I need for my setup to work on that craftsman was 3-4ths of an inch so the shaft wouldn't fit on here and also it had a It was too wide for the holes on the snow blower So I figure I'd take this and put it on right and there you go Well, I just went and checked the crankshaft width of this one here. This is a 7 8 So even this one won't fit the pulley that I have designed for that so I can't put this engine on there either Not to mention the fact that it looks just like the Toro one. I think it's still too wide, you know That craftsman in the back is designed for a Briggs 8 horsepower horizontal Not a Tecumseh. So anyway, I just thought about and thought about and I said well if The only thing wrong with this snow blower is the worm gear It's only like 20 bucks for a new worm gear, you know what I mean? So maybe I'll go and buy a new worm gear Repack that gearbox with grease and put this together and then I'll have another snow blower, right? Problem is though when you're not the one who took it apart It's a lot harder to put it together. You know what I mean? Since you weren't there for taking it apart You don't know where what goes Fortunately though, there's always the internet and I did find the part number to this thing and it has an entire diagram Of all the parts that you need to put it together I don't know if I have all the parts, but I want to make an attempt at putting it together You know what? I mean at least make it into a snowblower looking thing instead of lugging pieces around my garage You know what? I mean? Because look the bucket is some rust in some places, but it's really it's really not bad, you know And this is a decent snowblower, too It actually has power steering and a light. So, you know that that's one of the options that Was a pretty good option back then as you can see, this is a double pulley system, right? It's got the camshaft pulley here that turns the drive disc and it's got the double belts here I don't know why it's double belts actually Because then it has three pulleys, you know Could it have one belt for the auger and one belt for the impeller? I'll have to try to figure that out today, you know, I mean, but it's split in half I'm gonna try to put it back together put the wheels back on and Check out the bucket situation on On how I could put it together, you know So that's what I'm gonna try to do today. It's too bad to go. It's kind of cold so after further review I'm missing a bunch of parts and I don't think I could put it all back together again without these parts These parts cost a pretty penny and I don't want to spend that kind of money on putting this thing together And maybe I have all the parts. So Here's the impeller the impeller shaft This flange is kind of messed up right and everything is pretty much seized While this gear drive here is okay, and that flange is alright This one here is kind of busted right and then when you get to this part over here The spline part here is damaged so once this was once the Once this part was taken off the spline part Once it was taken off. This was dropped on the floor And so now you can't get it back on again because this part here is Damaged. Okay, so that's that Also over here on the bucket, right? This bucket over here While this does go here somewhere, right, there's a housing first and a big ball bearing Which I don't have right Once you get that on here one of the pulleys go right there And then there's supposed to be some other kind of spacer that made it and this doesn't even reach see what I'm saying These three things here. I'm missing another one like that on the other side probably So it's missing a lot of parts especially the bucket area, you know, the pulleys are and how the impeller goes on there It has these two things but these go inside You know what? I mean to hold the two thingamajigs together, I think Either way though that it's not gonna go on the spline so I can't do it, you know These are all the bolts that came with it, I don't think that's enough bolts This looks like it's too little, you know so I'm gonna sit here and ponder what I'm gonna do first. I don't think I'm gonna put it together though Yeah, so I'm not gonna put it together. I was gonna try to Force this on by I'm not gonna put it together. I'm gonna try to Yeah, so I'm not gonna put it together I was gonna try to force this on by banging it onto the shaft to get it on but Honestly, I'm still missing a lot of parts so I can't put it together Right, you know and why damage this when I could actually sell it, you know I mean, so I'm just gonna at least try to put it together somewhat, you know minus some parts Just so I can at least roll it around easily because right now has no wheels on it and it's in a half You know, so I'm just gonna put it together and just roll it around maybe use it for parts Maybe I'll find another one that has some parts whatever. I don't know but in the meantime, I'm gonna put you on time-lapse Well, I try to piece this whole thing together and make it look like a snowboard All right. There we go It didn't take too long Getting the halves together was kind of a challenge because you have to match up six studs into six holes, you know Just the right angle or whatever and it was so heavy at the pivot at this and that and the other thing So I I put it on with the Auger shaft with the augers on and it went on really easily, you know I didn't put on the impeller the impeller shaft or any of the two auger pulleys that are in there and Honestly, I don't know what I'm gonna do yet I'm gonna go study the diagram a little bit more and see just how much it would cost To get it, you know, maybe I can get it used or something like that. It might be worth it You know I'm saying if this engine runs well that runs well, it's kind of worth it. You know, look at these wheels the wheels are like Flawless, you know, they're like perfect wheels. So it's just it would be just a shame to not you know For this not to be a snowblower is what I'm trying to say. You know, let me check the oil. It's got Plenty of oil in it. It's a good oil, too Check the gas It's got gas in it It's got a fuel shut off and it's off It's got a stator. So it powers the lights, right? What do you guys think? Should we try to start this? Let's try starting it Sounds good. I'm missing the little plastic thing for the throttle Sounds like it might be working. All right, well, it doesn't start Just try pulling in a few times and we'll start Smoke gas on it So I don't see the spark but I can hear it. You know what? I mean? It goes click click click click, you know So it definitely has spark so we're gonna put this back in I'm gonna shoot some go-go juice in there Go-go juice in there. I think I got it in there You know The power steering works and believe it or not. This has heated grips So this might actually be worth trying to fix, you know what I mean, I'm gonna study the I'm not gonna I'm gonna study the parts diagram and see exactly what parts I need. I know for the most part. It's just the impeller assembly to the Auger pulleys, that's what I'm missing missing that belt too. It obviously has the drive belt as you can see Engine runs good. It's got electric Heated grips with power steering and a light 8.5 horsepower good wheels Surface rust but not bad at all. There's no rot everything works with the exception of the impeller, you know So I'm gonna do some research Maybe I could find some of the parts to get it going and then maybe we'll have this snowboard But like look you guys got to realize right here in New York Long Island, especially where I am, right? We haven't had snow in the past couple of years, right? We just had that one snowstorm that we had in the beginning of this The end of 2020 and that was a good one It was about you know, six eight inches whatever and it was enough to get your juices flowing But there's no foreseeable snow in the future, you know, not at all So it could just be another one of those years, you know So snowblowers as a result are not worth a lot of money here at all something like this You could probably see on Craigslist for 250 So would I spend? 100 bucks to make 150 bucks, you know, I mean, sometimes it may not be worth it But I'll see if I can source the parts for it first. I need to find out what I'm missing, you know Could be missing a lot, you know, and some of those diagrams. It's just crazy to read, you know, it's ridiculous It's a thousand little things, you know, I might have to watch some videos I'm sure some nut up there has a video on the auger impeller pulley Assembly for this exact machine because these are very these are very popular This is actually the little sister to the monster beef beast. I have same exact thing at least this actually has heated grips Maybe I could put these heated grips on the monster Anyway, that's it Oh Putting this together. I thought was gonna be a pain in the ass, but honestly, it wasn't that bad It's kind of fun Anyway, thanks for joining me on today's Putting a snowblower together from pieces Episode see you guys next time on mowers and blowers Hey you guys enjoyed the video remember to give me a like also comment below Subscribe Remember, it doesn't cost anything to subscribe. It's free, right? 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