Nice. Looks like minimal rust, what are your plans for it?

 

2 to make one is a solid plan ..... I have replaced the brass auger gear in 2 of those, so you may want to look at that on those as well.....

I actually use one of those tractors for my clipper deck .....

 

What did you ever do with that Powershift??????????

 

This machine is destined for my brother. Its piston seized during the first 15 seconds engine running at mid-RPM because the oil sump was empty! I poured some Marvel Mystery Oil into the spark plug hole, filled the sump with oil and got the engine re-started. It seems to be OK.

Today, I rigged a temporary fuel tank, cleaned and adjusted carb for low/high speed operation. Electric start, auger and tractor drive all function. Skid shoes are good (need height adjustment).

A belt cover, carb heater box and fuel tank will be sourced from my parts snowblower.

Tractor drive servicing and auger gear box/shaft greasing needs to be done tomorrow.

PS The Toro is on the back burner because I'd rather work on all these Ariens "orphans" that keep following me home. The Toro's B&S Flo-Jet carburetor needs disassembling. I'm dreading removing its emulsion tube without stripping its screwdriver slot.

 

Back in 2017 I got a free ST-824 and after some tinkering I got to try it out. Boy was mine a dude, plowed snow pretty poorly and even my little MTD 22" blew snow better than that 824. Now to my credit I was sort of a snow blower novice back then. Had I known all the stuff about modding the old stuff up and adding a paddle mod, it might have made a pretty good machine. Sadly on it's last pass when I just finished the heavy wet Snow that April the auger brass gear gave up the ghost, so I parted it out and kept the 8hp engine and put it on my chipper shredder, so the 824 does live on.

 

I have a spare 924 front bucket with an upgraded cast iron gearbox+new impeller bearing, similar to this one:

https://www.snowblowerforum.com/threads/ariens-st824-auger-bucket-housing-with-upgraded-cast-iron-gearbox-for-sale.162282/

One of these days, I'm going to pick up a free 924 series machine that has a good tractor half.