Seized Simplicity Snow Blower - Will It Run Again?
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- A subscriber gave us his old snow blower. He brought it out of storage and started it up. It ran rough, flames shooting out of the exhaust and mice running for their life. He shut it down to clean out the nest and later discovered the 8hp Briggs engine was locked up. After trying unsuccessfully to break it free, he purchased a new machine. Instead of trashing his old snow blower he tracked me down. Will it run again?
Snow Blower Model: 1694588
Engine Model: 12E394-0110-E1
Engine Code: 040617-FE
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Strange that we never have issues with snowblowers all summer .
He's the Bob Ross of small engine repair!
Ya but he didn't have any happy leaves. Lol
He's the small engine whisper
I was coming here to say the same thing whatever genre you could call this he is definitely truly the bob Ross
Very strange, I've watched lots of snowblower repair vids, but, this chap seems very able to impart his knowledge to the expert and the novice.
@@0rangecray0n br r rrrr r rrrrrr r rrrrrrrr🎉
That lift is a life saver, or at least a back and knee saver.....lolol
I used to watch "Mustie", but he tended to talk way too much...
Now I found another garage mechanic for whom I like a lot better!
i'm from california, and we do not have snow. last tome it had some snow 25 years ago.
today i have learned alot from you. thanks for the show!!
What a perfect morning. I just grabbed some Dunkin coffee and now I see your video. Thanks for all you do and share with us.
You Sir are a true craftsman and the quality of your work is outstanding. The way most people beat the living hell out of mowers, lawn tractors and snowblowers never ceases to amaze me.
I was sitting here yelling at the screen....MOVE THE THROTTLE LEVER!!!!!
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What a beautiful neighbourhood.
My back feels so much better every time you use the lift😊👍
Thanks Jim. We could never get a repair shop to do such fine work like you do.
Pleasure watching you work James
Nice work as usual. Thanks for the video.
Great job Jim!!!! Thanks!!
Great job James!
Nice job James, as usual.
Great video as always. Very thorough and informative.
Thanks for the Video James 👍👍
Great diagnostic work. Now ye have a good snowblower.
Pretty snow. Good fix. Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing
Great video James, Always enjoy the way you break things down. Thumbs up.
Thanks for the vid James.
A nice change of pace, always a quality video.
Great job, guys . Got the book in the mail . It is awesome. Job well done to everyone involved. Have a good one.
Great job James, no issue left unsolved. Thanks for sharing.
Snow the never ending battle. great video James.
Thank you for doing what you do! I’m learning lots of new stuff about doing mechanical work by watching you repair the various types of equipment!
Such attention to detail , it’s admirable ! I can watch this stuff all day
Great work very instructive for my new blower.
very nice troubleshooting and methodical care taken
Thank you So much! Learing so much from you from Seattle!
Great video and great repair James. I agree with the other commenter, that an impeller mod would be a great touch for that machine. Made all the difference to a couple Craftsmans I did here in Southern Ontario. Thanks for the excellent videos!
Great job as always James. It needed a lot of TLC. Glad you gave it a second lease on a useful life 🙂
Great repair. I really enjoy your videos. Thank You
Great video 👍 James
You are so entertaining to my brother and I. We love to see what problem you got this time. You do always make it seem easy. Rock on dude!
Hi James , great job
Well done. From what started looking like a terminal case, ended well without too much hassle.
I can spend hours and hours watching your videos. I learned a lot, thank you ! 😊
Another great video James! I am in awe of the way you were able to stitch the scenes together and not miss a beat! It had to take a lot of patience to wait on mother nature to deliver the props you needed for the test scenes! Thanks for the great content!
Great vid as always watching you methodically diagnose and repair so many issues on that machine was satisfying and educational. Thanks again James. As I watch your videos and see your house go through all the seasons I get a appreciation of how much the seasons effect the lifestyle in your state .
Thank you James.
Great video. Especially good work diagnosing the various issues, and leaving no stone unturned so to speak. Your thoroughness is admirable and undoubtably has added many many years of life to the machine.
Thanks 🙏🏻 again for all the detail you put in your videos. After u get done with a machine it’s probably better than when it was new😎😎😎👍👍
Man that was quite a job but you got it all up and running perfectly. Way beyond my abilities now. Thanks for the videos.
Superb repair, James. I especially liked you putting the new bearings in and making the auger and blower perform. Nice change from stators and rotors!!
Great show brother 😊 I enjoyed it
Thanks James 😊
Great video as always. Wow that lift really has come in handy hasn't it?
You did an excellent job on the beast. You are lucky to get so many freebies.
You are amazing! You touched almost everything on this snowblower to get it to run. You have the perfect tools to do the job too. Just love your patience and that lift. I would be scared to take apart since I would forget what goes where. lol Excellent video!
Well I have to thank you sir for all of the knowledge!! Thank you very much. I have a snowblower that needs a lot of work; but now I have the knowledge to understand what I need to do. If I can’t get the auger to work then I will use it for a go kart for my son. 😊
Luv your lift a back saver
Nice repair job on this & I agree with using the anti-seize on those bolts & parts on the blower assembly. I use it a lot myself including spark plugs in aluminum cylinder heads.
I enjoy your displeasure with certain engineers and what they have designed.
James I enjoy your Video very much , great job😀
Ah yes. A Thursday morning watching a James Condon video! Great job as usual!
As ever great to watch, thanks :)
What you have there at the end is what we on the left coast loving call Sierra Cement. It's the norm around here. "Gotta love it". Thanks for another great video.
Love how thorough you are James, but I also like the fact that you know its not always a perfect world and are not afraid to make something work if you need to, such as bending the belt guide in this video cause you couldn't find another one. I think thats what its all about, you want as perfect as possible but sometimes have to do what it is needed. Props on the awesome videos.
Thanks now I know what to expect when my day comes.
I love your videos. Your knowledge of small motors is excellent. Keep up the great work.
Another Great Video, very instructional
I really enjoy the improved view for us viewers now that you were lucky enough to get that lift. I noticed it immediately from your previous videos. They were all good so far, as I watch them. But it is MUCH improved view at the table level!! Great video, enjoyed it... even though, as retired and in the Philippines, I doubt I can translate much of the snow blower end here for any use here, but the unsticking of a frozen motor will certainly be remembered for use here.
Nice work as always, James! A friend of my showed me a great trick for when the snow is like that. Spray the auger and the chute with some silicone lubricant. Helps stop the snow from plugging in the chute.
Another award winning job! Like you just brought it home from the store!
Jim I really enjoy your videos.
I love how you clean everything, even if it cant be seen.
Great job James, you make it look so easy. I think the heavy and slushy snow is why folks prefer the 2 stage blowers and large HP models
That was a two stage, the single stage just has the one two sided flapper to expel the snow while the dual-stage blower, the auger gathers the snow and pushes it to a high-speed impeller which is the bearing he replaced. The engine speed usually determines how far the snow will be ejected.
I really enjoy your videos and that you are so meticulous and precise with your work and I can’t imagine you let the garage door maintenance lack and sound so terrible.🤷🏼
Nice work restoring that machine. We had a simplicity they are good machines.
Excellent video. Your calm demeanor and thoroughness is admirable. I really enjoy working on small engines and back 35 years ago took classes to be able to repair many types of small engines. Your videos bring back memories and are extremely interesting. Would love to see a mini bike repair or another go kart as those are way more fun!
Dirt bike repair in the works
More knowledge! Yeah! This was a great video!
Thanks
Nice job on the snowblower, James. I see you, too, have a Chrysler Pacifica. I bought my 2020 used 6 weeks ago and I love it.
It’s a nice car, but have had a few issues. The most recent was replacing both heads :(
Good Job!.
Long but another great vid! Simplicity makes good products, they switched to Briggs engines when Briggs bought them out in 2004. I have the same Briggs snow engine in my garage hydro locked (I think)!
Thanks Ken.
This was the best of all the videos I have watched. It held my interest from start to finish. I was hoping, however, that you would have to tear down the engine to it's bones
FINE fix, Pl nd that's why I like my hoist hung from the roof. I can let pieces ease down on each other and can do 2 at a time if needed. Never had a problem with a Magnetron but it's not over yet. Keep on wrenching and God Bless! Good assistant too!
it was really nice of the subscriber to give you the Snowblower. makes a good video. it could have been run low on oil and seized and someone added oil. I would say you unseized it. good job. I enjoy watching your videos.
One of the best videos you put out James. Thanks!!! I use some Pam and spray it on the augers and chute when I get that wet snow, I think it works well and much less expensive than the other things they want to sell to do the same job.
Yep, Pam is the answer for the wet West Coast snow on Vancouver Island.
You say thanks for watching. I answer... thanks to you for those instructive videos🍻🍻
Nice work Jim , works really good now ….
Thanks 👍
Haha. James joins the "strangely satisfying" crowd of lawn carers, pressure washers, etc. Snow blowers unite! Seriously, really nice work as usual. Nice change-up.
Another terrific video!
And reminder why I am fond of the Mojave.
Don't ask me why but I feel like when Tapping/Chasing threads are an intimate act. I cringe at work when I see my coworkers slap a tap on a drill and send it, I believe in lots lube and slow strokes.
I will go above and beyond to never split a machine, it is just a difficult task when alone. For the most part I will time it right for when the Mrs. comes home.
Simplicity would benefit greatly from an impeller mod. I love those machines, well built and of course great job!
Thanks Jason. I feel the same way with a drill and tap. Figured I could get away with it on a piece of sheet metal. Worst case I could weld a nut to the backside.
Thought I was home free when the engine freed up. Luckily everything came apart for the auger bearing.
the shop ramp lift is the star of the show... 👍😎👍
I have that same snowthrower. You can greatly improve the throwing distance by adding a rubber patch to each paddle to help it clear the snow they discharge to the chute. You want the rubber patch to close the gaps between the paddle and the housing. I attached the rubber to the paddles with self tapping screws.
Great video! You found a new subscriber!
I've never seen the outside of a snowblower carburetor get that dirty and i've worked on thousands of them before moving to southern Ohio and most of the time i can use my leaf blower to clear the snow. I use dawn dish soap in my ultrasonic cleaner and it does a pretty good job at cleaning carburetors
Another great video
Excellent job
Thanks
It's doing a pretty good job blowing that slush good working machine
Love your videos
Good Ole Breaks and Scrappem.....have fun James
nice restoration
Great work
Thanks
Good job you are good at your job for sure !!!
I have a Simplicity 755E that I bought new in 1996 that is still in excellent shape because I take very good care of my equipment, truth be told there were some winters here in Reading, Pa. that I never had to get it out of the garage, but some winters we did get 15 to 20 inches of snow too!
Great job James! There is nothing simplistic about a Simplicity. Hated how they split the case in half. It's not like an Ariens or a Craftsman where the case splits on a hinge to make it easier. For sure you got very lucky that the parts did not fight you more when replacing that impeller bearing. Really enjoyed the video keep them coming!
Lucky is right. I tried to do the same on my snow blower years ago and nothing came apart without a fight. Not a great design, but at least it came apart.
@@jcondon1 agreed. I had to do all the work you did on my Ariens Platinum 30 a few years back.
Encore un travail professionnel, méticuleux, merci.
Wieder eine professionelle, akribische Arbeit, danke.
Another professional, meticulous job, thank you.
“Flames coming from the exhaust”
…. Holy shit