On Wed, 03 Feb 2021 04:24:42 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 21:46:46 -0500, J. Clarke
wrote:

Went out to blow snow and, as usual, the damned belt is off the damned
snowblower. It's an Ariens, it's not old, and this is a known problem
with the model. I've tried all the reasonable fixes that I see on
various Web sites and Youtube (I'm not going to go buy a lathe to turn
a new redesigned pulley, which one guy who had a lathe did). It used
to be that it needed the belt on at the start of the season, but it
seems like now it needs it before every storm.

My old Ariens, that some #$%^&*( stole, gave me no trouble.

So, this group has a lot of wisdom about a great many things. My
options that I see are to keep fixing the thing until spring and then
look for an old Ariens on Craigslist and take my chances with its
condition, or bite the bullet and spend for a Honda (if I can find
one) on the basis of Japanese engineering and workmanship, or do
something else (moving to Florida is not an option).

So, any advice? And yeah, I know I could shovel. I've reached an age
and state of decripitude where that's not advisable.


Here's one possible fix :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FOs8otCQs

John T.
The old rof controlled units gave a LOT less trouble. I'f be popping
the pan off and seing if there is a way to limit how far the swing
plate can move away from the friction wheel. I'm sure there is a block
of some sort to limit the movement that you could either afjust or
modify to keep the swing plate / pulley assembly from moving too far
away from the friction disc, causing the mis-alignment. Mabee add a
piece of angle iron to the side of the drive housing with an ajustable
stop bolt that blocks the swing plate? Not having one here, or even
good pictures - or even exactly what model, makes it like working
blind with mittens on - but there HAS to be a simple solution to -
what boils down to- a simple mechanical problem of excessive travel.