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If yours hit the housing again, you might look all around the housing flange to make sure it is still all straight. I had noticed that my fan blade had slightly kinked the flange from where it contacted it and I tried to flatten that with the channel locks also. After my ‘repair’, it didn’t hit...

I think it's just the 'ear' of the blade and I just bent it back with some big channel locks. It looks close but it's a good point to understand that it might be out of balance. I will be trying it tonight. Thanks again for the feedback

Finally figured it out. One of the impeller fan blades is actually bent out a little bit and was actually contacting the bottom flange of the blower housing. Thanks again for the suggestion and I will fix it and move on

Thanks for the recommendation. I took off the cover, and nothing looks odd. I may just replace the bolt and dig in further if it's still not working right

I have a BX2816 front snowblower and just broke a fan / impeller shear bolt (probably on a rock from my gravel driveway). I replaced the bolt with a super cheap close fit low grade bolt that I had in the garage. It immediately broke again when I engaged the PTO with no load on it. When I spin...