Warmed the #3 snowblower (old Wards) up, drained the oil and filled with fresh 10-30. Dropped the belly-pan and freed up the drive wheel slide. Squirted some oil on linkage / joints and buttoned it back up. Consider this case closed.
BTW, the ID plate says it's a GIL - 476B which my search indicated was built for Wards by Gilson in 1971.
Hi...
Slightly changing the subject if I may... some of you folks seem to be interested in and enjoying older products...
Should anyone care, I still have and occasionally use a Sears Craftsman C944.52929 blower... 22" single, 6 hp Tecumseh. Still works like a charm, original with the exception of a slight modification to the motor mount slots to compensate for the no longer available fractional inch sized drive belt. With
5w30 synthetic starts easily in -40 degree weather.The good part is I still have the original manual, dated 6/1/79, so if anyone needs it I'll be happy to scan it for them. (I doubt Sears will care, given the age)
Take care.
Ken
Original mauals are a real neat thing to have. I get ecstatic when I buy an old machine that comes with a book or two. I'm surprised about the "synthetic" - some of these old babies ask for non-detergent.
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Just for the heck of it I read it... makes no mention of detergency. It does want 10w-30 above 32 degrees f; either
5w-20 or 10 above 0 degrees f, and suggests sae 10 diluted with 10% kerosene below 0 degrees f :) Winterpeg (Winnipeg, Canada) often sees minus 40 degrees, so...I chose to use the synthetic, because it sure does start more easily. In fact even though I'm getting long in the tooth I can still start it manually at those temps :)
As an aside, I saw someone (you?) mentioning drenching the chute with motor oil, and wondered if anyone else here has tried the "pam" trick. If I'm preaching to the choir I apologize, but an inexpensive spray can of pam (for those in other countries, the spray vegetable oil can that you might spray on a pan or in a pot to make it less likely for food to stick)
If you'll spray a little all around your machine (the auger, the frame that surrounds the auger, the chute, the chute controls, etc) before you start it makes a world of difference in how your machine operates. Nothing sticks, nothing freezes.
Buy the cheapest generic can - you're not going to eat it so what does it matter how good it might taste? :)
Take care.
Ken
Spring chicken basted in wd40.
What did we do before the spray cans of that stuff ?
Dunno but I buy it by the gallon can for refills in my spray bottles.
questions on your Gilson......i found this site a few years ago when i was shopping for a snowblower.
mike...........
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