Recent content by mrdna

So I didn't forget about this thread, I was just out of town for work yesterday! Here are some more pictures of the set-up. Here you can see the bearing mount from inside. Here's a closer view. As you can see from the back side, the bearing mount is actually made up of two plates that...

Well, after even more tinkering it looks like the problem is not as bad as I thought. It all comes down to the previous owner not assembling the blower shaft correctly. One of the two bearings is designed to sit inside a concave ring to hold the shaft in place (I'm sure these have a proper name)...

Ok, I decided to take it apart even further. Can't hurt, right? It turns out the pulley lining up is an easy issue to fix because all I have to do is loosen two set screws and slide the pulley along the blower shaft. When I got the PTO separated from the blower shaft I noticed it was not...

Thanks for confirming my suspicions about the belt tensioner! After some more investigating, it looks like my problems might need a little more than a BFH. The pulley at the PTO is sitting much closer to the back face than the tensioner pulley or the auger pulley. This might explain why...

Hello, all! I bought a house this summer and part of the deal was for the previous owner to leave behind a B7100 with a rear snow blower. After doing some basic fluid and filter changes and whatnot to remedy the previous owner's seeming lack of maintenance, the last thing I need to get going...