Hi all:
This is my first post on this site but I've been using it to solve a variety of my tractor related issues over the last 10-12 years. I appreciate all of you for your knowledge, patience, and ability to explain various solutions.
I've got an unusual situation and I'm looking to bounce this off some like-minded folks. Last year I was snowblowing and sucked up a snow covered 3-4" branch and I must of tagged it just right and it snapped the shaft that feeds the impeller and gearbox.... literally sheered it in half like someone took a hacksaw to it. I pulled it into the garage and the following weekend I started breaking it all down, ordered parts, blah blah. As luck would have it this was the last time I needed the blower until just a few days ago when the northeast (Maine) saw it's first snowstorm of the season. All this is to say that I never had a chance to test the snowblower until yesterday since the rebuild.
Somethings funky now.. it won't throw snow more than 5 or 6' as opposed to the typical 10-12' it would have with this type of snow and it was bunching up Infront of the blower - almost like a plow. We got around 5" once it was all said and done so nothing crazy and certainly not something that would dictate bad performance.
First things first: Obviously checked shear pins - all seem fine and all intact. I thought I may of reversed the augers but those seem to be fine too, however, I'm not 100% other than I had my wife sit in the tractor with the blower engaged and tossed a few scoops of snow into the running blower near the outside edges and the snow was funneling towards the center of the blower. I really don't think this is an issue but I'm not 100% and truthfully I think I kept the augers on their shaft during the rebuild.
I'm trying to rack my brain on what could cause such a loss of performance. I checked the sprockets and the chain has about 3/4 - 1" of defection compared to the 1/4" the manual states so I can change that but I doubt that would mean poor performance but rather a loud racket.. I could be wrong. I've also noticed that it's got a minor vibration which doesn't shock me due to the amount of bearings that I had to remove and reinstall - also not ruling out a bent PTO shaft due to the initial incident. If it's bent it's not that bad and I can live with it but I can feel it in the steering wheel which was never a thing.
I've got a kubota dealership about 15-20 miles away but before I dig out my trailer (which is in the back 40 with a lot of white stuff between it and the driveway). I really hate to pay someone else to do it but unless it's something foolishly easy or a complete mental blunder from myself I'm not too far from bringing it to the shop just based on the ability to find time to fix this..
Do you folks have any recommendations to look at? I mean, this is a pretty simple device so there's only so many things to check and/or confirm.
Just for context I've got an 2007 BX2350 and the snowblower is right around that same age (came as a package).
Thanks all!
This is my first post on this site but I've been using it to solve a variety of my tractor related issues over the last 10-12 years. I appreciate all of you for your knowledge, patience, and ability to explain various solutions.
I've got an unusual situation and I'm looking to bounce this off some like-minded folks. Last year I was snowblowing and sucked up a snow covered 3-4" branch and I must of tagged it just right and it snapped the shaft that feeds the impeller and gearbox.... literally sheered it in half like someone took a hacksaw to it. I pulled it into the garage and the following weekend I started breaking it all down, ordered parts, blah blah. As luck would have it this was the last time I needed the blower until just a few days ago when the northeast (Maine) saw it's first snowstorm of the season. All this is to say that I never had a chance to test the snowblower until yesterday since the rebuild.
Somethings funky now.. it won't throw snow more than 5 or 6' as opposed to the typical 10-12' it would have with this type of snow and it was bunching up Infront of the blower - almost like a plow. We got around 5" once it was all said and done so nothing crazy and certainly not something that would dictate bad performance.
First things first: Obviously checked shear pins - all seem fine and all intact. I thought I may of reversed the augers but those seem to be fine too, however, I'm not 100% other than I had my wife sit in the tractor with the blower engaged and tossed a few scoops of snow into the running blower near the outside edges and the snow was funneling towards the center of the blower. I really don't think this is an issue but I'm not 100% and truthfully I think I kept the augers on their shaft during the rebuild.
I'm trying to rack my brain on what could cause such a loss of performance. I checked the sprockets and the chain has about 3/4 - 1" of defection compared to the 1/4" the manual states so I can change that but I doubt that would mean poor performance but rather a loud racket.. I could be wrong. I've also noticed that it's got a minor vibration which doesn't shock me due to the amount of bearings that I had to remove and reinstall - also not ruling out a bent PTO shaft due to the initial incident. If it's bent it's not that bad and I can live with it but I can feel it in the steering wheel which was never a thing.
I've got a kubota dealership about 15-20 miles away but before I dig out my trailer (which is in the back 40 with a lot of white stuff between it and the driveway). I really hate to pay someone else to do it but unless it's something foolishly easy or a complete mental blunder from myself I'm not too far from bringing it to the shop just based on the ability to find time to fix this..
Do you folks have any recommendations to look at? I mean, this is a pretty simple device so there's only so many things to check and/or confirm.
Just for context I've got an 2007 BX2350 and the snowblower is right around that same age (came as a package).
Thanks all!
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