Why does my snow blower not shear the shear bolts?

wow interesting

I'll bet if you ran over a rock instead of a newspaper, the shear bolts would shear becasue its an impact, the newspaper is too soft and absorbs too much of the impact...

Just like an impact wrench can exert 300 ft lbs yet you can hold it easily.

So maybe you can take the new shear bolts and cut a notch in them to weaken them before you install them.. so when they try to bend they will break...

Or loosen the belt more so it slips easier when the blade jams and you can shut the engine off before it burns the belt

Or tighten the belt so the jam stalls the engine

Mark

Why don't you pick up the paper?

Astute reading skills "choc".

Van Chocstraw wrote in news:j6idnUeDa7k- fsfUnZ2dnUVZ_o snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Well, if he posted "Today I picked up the newspaper.", that wouldn't generate too much chatter here would it?

Besides, he said it was hidden in the snow.

Perhaps a better Q is why doesn't the delivery service put it in the newspaper box on the post?

Likely has bolts instead of shear pins. They are NOT the same.

Also important to keep the shaft/auger interface lubricated so the pin CAN shear.

We don't need no stinkin' posts.

ACtually you have a point. It might be too much to ask for the paper to be in the box every day, but maybe when it's snowing the guy would do it for the OP.

Sort of similar, I constantly tried to get the UPS etc. guys to leave a note if they also left my package, so if a package were stolen I'd know it came. But once I got one guy to do it, he was transferred. So I started getting packages sent to a friend's business.

This year the news broadcast video of people stealing packages off of their porches.

Try using brass bolts...although I have not experimented with this suggestion.

I don't see how a bent shear will shred a belt. Are you sure;

1. the bent bolt is a shear bolt?
2. by being bent it is causing more work for the belt.

What make/model snowblower is it?

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Another question: Why does he still GET a newspaper?

If you think there might be a paper under snow you should not let that happen and set the hight high. I would not run any machine where I thought I might hit something.

I tend to agree with the other posters, either the paper is taking up too much of the impact or they are not shear pins but bolts which are not desinged to break when too much stress is applied.

When you ran over the brick, did the same thing occur? If so I doubt a brick will absorb much of an impact so then the sheer pins are really bolts.

lol the guy that ran over the brick is not the op.

Mark

Ran over a dog chain with the blower a few years ago and the shear pin on one side broke. Hit a newspaper last year and the machine locked up and the engine killed. Shear pin(s) stayed intact. No damage to the engine either time.

I can't even get them to have the decency to ring the doorbell when they drop a package. I am usually there.

That's the deal we have. He drives by throwing them out of the car window.

I don't think I ever said they were pins??? They are bolts (as I said) with two notches cut and a lock nut on the end. I do keep the auger shaft lubricated with like a Mobil 1 brand grease tube (used in a grease gun.)

poison snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@v42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:

Maybe you should throw the payment at him when he goes by. If he claims he did not get payment, tell him it must have gotten chewed up in the snowblower because it got burried in the snow LIKE THE F*ING NEWSPAPER.

The original Ariens shear bolt is brass...in color anyway. I just bought some aftermarket shear bolts by Oregon and they are the exact same size but not brass. I've always had excellent experience with parts by Oregon. I think my Stihl 025 chainsaw is now like 60% Oregon parts now. Anyway I'll give these a whirl and see what happens. Like the other posters have said maybe with the newspaper it absorbs the initial impact etc.

The bent bolt is a shear bolt. It has two notches in it with a lock nut holding it in place.

This is an Ariens snowblower. I believe it's a 926103 off the top of my head (they have multiple model names and numbers, it's a DLX model.) This one has the hand warmers, the remote lever for the wheel lock, etc. How will a shear bolt shred a belt? The auger has stopped and can't move because of the newspaper but the but the belt is still turning because I have not realized it yet and I am still holding the auger lever down. The belt heats up and starts to smoke (you can see the smoke coming out from the frame.) At that point it's pretty much toast. It only takes a few seconds for it be shot.