Hello!
I purchased a snowblower yesterday, because my wife didn't want to keep seeing me out shoveling our driveway. So she found one on one of her facebook groups, I trekked out in our beat up minivan and paid $100 for what looked like a really nice snowblower!
Now I'm not much at all of a mechanic or even remotely inclined when it comes to anything that has an engine. I've never owned a snowblower, and I had no idea what I was doing. The rope to start it (later found out it's called a 'recoil rope') was broken and I had my neighbor come over and install a new one. He then told me I had an "old" ariens, about 40-50 years old!!!!!! I had such a hard time getting it started, I'd pull the rope and it would rip through my hand and go back in the thing.. (Where the rope goes into). It started eventually, and when it did I was blown away by how much power it had, just chewing through massive snowbanks and I felt like a champ as my wife and kids cheered me on while watching from inside. Until I touched something..
I have a problem, whenever I get comfortable using a machine I tend to get over zealous and touch levers and things to find out what exactly they do. I pulled the lever for one of the clutches, the auger stopped spinning and so did the wheels. I couldn't get either to work so I put it in my garage and tried again this morning, no go. I found an old ariens manual so I could figure the correct lever positions and maybe find a way to get it running again. It starts, but nothing goes. I know absolutely nothing about snowblowers, and I was directed here from a very cool website of people who admire and still use these snowblowers and even restore them! I'm actually really excited and I told my wife that I'm going to learn everything I can and maybe restore it and keep it for years to come.
I'm attaching some pictures, and maybe some people here can help me get it running! And figure out how old it actually is. From what I found online it's a pre-1973, as the lever stops the wheels rather then move them. After 1973 the lever moved the wheels. Thank you for reading my rambling, I'm Brian as the username states and I live outside of Amsterdam NY with my wife and 3 children!
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I purchased a snowblower yesterday, because my wife didn't want to keep seeing me out shoveling our driveway. So she found one on one of her facebook groups, I trekked out in our beat up minivan and paid $100 for what looked like a really nice snowblower!
Now I'm not much at all of a mechanic or even remotely inclined when it comes to anything that has an engine. I've never owned a snowblower, and I had no idea what I was doing. The rope to start it (later found out it's called a 'recoil rope') was broken and I had my neighbor come over and install a new one. He then told me I had an "old" ariens, about 40-50 years old!!!!!! I had such a hard time getting it started, I'd pull the rope and it would rip through my hand and go back in the thing.. (Where the rope goes into). It started eventually, and when it did I was blown away by how much power it had, just chewing through massive snowbanks and I felt like a champ as my wife and kids cheered me on while watching from inside. Until I touched something..
I have a problem, whenever I get comfortable using a machine I tend to get over zealous and touch levers and things to find out what exactly they do. I pulled the lever for one of the clutches, the auger stopped spinning and so did the wheels. I couldn't get either to work so I put it in my garage and tried again this morning, no go. I found an old ariens manual so I could figure the correct lever positions and maybe find a way to get it running again. It starts, but nothing goes. I know absolutely nothing about snowblowers, and I was directed here from a very cool website of people who admire and still use these snowblowers and even restore them! I'm actually really excited and I told my wife that I'm going to learn everything I can and maybe restore it and keep it for years to come.
I'm attaching some pictures, and maybe some people here can help me get it running! And figure out how old it actually is. From what I found online it's a pre-1973, as the lever stops the wheels rather then move them. After 1973 the lever moved the wheels. Thank you for reading my rambling, I'm Brian as the username states and I live outside of Amsterdam NY with my wife and 3 children!
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/7Qo6FjRXi3ZPFuMvdZentRF76QbUarofdrzgSbh36mQ
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/zoxPHuiJYZCZzpVhPYoepsRc9XKvPPxn8I4lvtu9n9g
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/D63Usnz9_gd7kgkYb6v4PvUIqx66VVRfnmNBUGQUCv4
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/xrmXq9R898YnUcoMXy7qEePKM9nXhHybWqypTOqxM0o