How-To Remove A Seized Pulley From A Snowblower, lawnmower, Roto-Tiller, Lawn Tractor etc.

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3 ай бұрын

How-To Remove A Seized Pulley From A Snowblower, lawnmower, Roto-Tiller, Lawn Tractor etc.
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@jamesc9327 3 ай бұрын

A master mechanic at work showing how to remove a frozen pully. Thanks Dony for always sharing your incredible talent on your KZfaq videos. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@colehara 3 ай бұрын

Putting grease on your finger to hold those nuts is a great tip. For really tight spots I use a bit of double sided tape on a Popsicle stick.

@danoliverfreedom 3 ай бұрын

Something I have done for year s as a maintenance mechanic when you need to get a nut in a very limited space is to put a small piece of electrical tape on one side of your combination wrench. Sometimes on one side of the box end of the wrench and sometimes you don't have to room to remove your wrench then I will put the tape on the flat side of the open end of the wrench. The nut sticks to the tape long enough to start your bolt and then you can tighten it and remove the wrench. Your welcome 🙂. Thanks for the tip Donny.

@cma8165 3 ай бұрын

Wow! I was impressed by the way you removed that seized pulley! Thanks for sharing your ideas with us, your subscribers.

@cottydry 3 ай бұрын

Don, you always make PIA repairs look easy!! There are pullers with a pointed lead screws. If you use one and make a small divit in the shaft end they won't dance around.

@andrewsteele7663 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Don, we have no use for a snow blower here in Queensland. But the video will help me other projects. Cheers

@dogsplantscarsneatstuff176 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Don I wish I would have thought of that years ago with my troybilt tiller belt pully. GREAT IDEA!

@carlnelson3893 3 ай бұрын

Good video, it's certainly easier than what I did.... I don't want to talk about it.... now I know!

@donyboy73 3 ай бұрын

I've done it too lol!

@michaelotoole1807 3 ай бұрын

well, you got me curious?

@michaelotoole1807 3 ай бұрын

some heat, a prybar and plenty of f-bombs?

@Paul1958R 3 ай бұрын

Don, Thank you for this. I did the same exact thing to remove the pulley on my 2005 Toro 1128OXE in 2016 so I could replace the impeller bearing (machine had 85 hours on it then). Now has 158. Paul (in MA USA)

@williamalbright8878 3 ай бұрын

I’m going to try this on my deck pulley. Thanks for sharing sir.

@harrygrimley4352 3 ай бұрын

Very nice. Or if you are not in a hurry. Drip some marvel on it, wait a day and try again. Thanks for sharing this with us.

@blackenedmagic888 3 ай бұрын

On the square-head bolts, you can also use a 12-point socket if you don't have an 8-point one.

@nospamheredude5838 3 ай бұрын

I do as well. : ) Commented the same.

@jaygee999 3 ай бұрын

Don, tu es le meilleur !

@bobsbarnworkshop 3 ай бұрын

One of the wheels on my Ariens snowblower is seized on and I had thought of drilling holes to get a puller on. (No worries about air leaks, it has a tube anyways!) So now I’m inspired to go try to get it off!

@martinflanagan2506 3 ай бұрын

Awesome idea , great video I always learn great tricks from your good, short and well done video's.

@nospamheredude5838 3 ай бұрын

Dony, I've also been able to use 12 point sockets on square headed bolts when I didn't have my set of 8 points with me, or needed an odd size that wasn't in my set. Check it out sometime. : ) Excellent tip here on removing that pulley. Thank you once again for another great and helpful video.

@alainleblanc4031 3 ай бұрын

Another awesome video from Don, you are such a professional mechanic. Thank you for sharing your extensive experience and knowledge with us, I learn so much from you.

@randi740 3 ай бұрын

Great Idea!

@littlepaddy7444 3 ай бұрын

Good plan Don. Saves a lot of work. Thanks

@symbiont0156 3 ай бұрын

That grease on the finger trick is fantastic! I may have to do that the next time I see my girlfriend...😂

@jamiebuckley1769 3 ай бұрын

wow donny boy very exelent fix im pretty handy myself being at 45 years in the welding trade and 25 years as a hobby machinist but you are a pretty smart cookie and i always learn an alternitive way of doing things from you. thanks 4 another helpfull video thumbs up.

@tomg721 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip Don.

@stephenmacvicar4652 3 ай бұрын

Now that's smart thanks don

@Southernshaker 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Donny, i learn something every video.

@gordbaker896 3 ай бұрын

Nicely Done Dony.

@raymondsadowski6080 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Another great tip!

@yodasbff3395 3 ай бұрын

Excellent idea, thanks for sharing your videos. 👍

@jpshowpro8408 3 ай бұрын

Loving this series of fixes Don! Really fantastic, and well done as always:)

@rk22cc 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Donny

@mrclaus859 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Dony

@danielrapoza8468 3 ай бұрын

Don, Great tip. Thank you for sharing... Dan. 😊

@FreedomRock44 3 ай бұрын

Good one DONY!!!

@liljoeii6091 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the tip and thank you for the video

@kencurtis228 3 ай бұрын

TY for Sharing

@chriswagner6310 3 ай бұрын

Good afternoon bro

@danielrobert7181 3 ай бұрын

L'astuce de la graisse pour "coller" l'écrou au doigt est géniale. Merci Donald !

@donyboy73 3 ай бұрын

Oui certainement!

@Odawg3709 3 ай бұрын

Great trick!

@billsmith1770 3 ай бұрын

great idea , thanks .

@BobE.Dancho 3 ай бұрын

Good job.

@percyfaith11 3 ай бұрын

Another good idea is to use a ball joint removal tool to drive the pulley hub off from underneath. The tool is shaped like a ramped fork.

@tomcal25 3 ай бұрын

It's called a "Pickle Fork"

@percyfaith11 3 ай бұрын

@@tomcal25 Never heard that but it is a good description.

@richardlewis4288 3 ай бұрын

That was nifty! I bent a pulley a while back pulling on perimeter. This would’ve done the trick. Thanks!

@anthonyelectric6045 3 ай бұрын

Great tip Don when you don’t have any torches available. Better I think

@beanolatte2682 3 ай бұрын

Nice!!

@37yearsofanythingisenough39 3 ай бұрын

Donny I wish you would get in the habit of telling your viewers to remember to apply anti seize at the end of each video you make that involves shafts and threaded fasteners when reassembling even if you do not show it on screen. I still run into people that do not know such a product exists and we know that would help them out immensely. Your videos are top shelf as always.

@michaelotoole1807 3 ай бұрын

I've had to remove my auger pulley several times in 20 plus years for maintenance and always used plenty of anti seize but i always end up having to use a puller when i have to remove it. mabye the snug fit pushes most of the anti seize off the pully when i reassemble.

@Zzrdemon6633 3 ай бұрын

You should know to do that without someone telling you every time,

@budthomason8890 3 ай бұрын

Hey Dony boy73-- If you put a piece of rubber hose over the drill bit where there is enough sticking out at the bits end to make it through the metal. It won't suck it self through. It also keeps the bit cooler.

@ceejay9663 3 ай бұрын

Why have I NEVER seen you used penetrating oil first in a case like this? All your ideas are terrific, but trying the simplest way first has always been my preference.

@Pete.Ty1 3 ай бұрын

👍👍👍.Thanks

@QuaabQueb 3 ай бұрын

Some times you can get them off using a pneumatic hammer and prying up, similar to getting off a flywheel. Have to be careful when prying/pulling because the pulley can bend if it's really seized on there. In which case there is no substitute for the torch!

@brianbanks3044 3 ай бұрын

Great trick Don....people don't realize all the hardships we have to endure while doing a "simple" job......steel, water and salt are natures welders and these parts that go together so easily in the factory can get almost permanently stuck together after a few months of weather....it's times like those that require thinking outside the box and thus special tools are invented

@ron827 3 ай бұрын

Salaving good used parts for future customers is not that common. Keep up the good work. I liked the "grease on the finger" tip to hold a nut in a blind location. I have also slipped a small neodymium magnet into the finger of a glove to hold a nut but your grease tip is quicker. Thanks.

@wenvalley1825 3 ай бұрын

Do you use Never Seize when you put the pulley back on? Thanks for your videos!

@timvoiss1568 3 ай бұрын

On a side note I had to remove my gearbox per your video and found out my impeller is plastic and the pins that held it were rusted in place 67.00 for a new impeller

@diggindiggenit6540 3 ай бұрын

That's an interesting way to do it, if you do not have room to add the two under nuts I would just use a 5/8 bold thread a nut on it until flush weld two or three tabs on the nut then tack the tabs to the pulley and use an impact to take it off

@Patrick4959 3 ай бұрын

grouse work Donny mate love it and a job well done for sure and i reckon a good cleaning by either white vinegar bath soaking soloution or something like that or even the sandblaster will help cleaned up that pulley as it looks to be a aluminum type of material and then once that,s done she,s ready to be saved and re-used on another or engine or something like that but yeah all good i reckon once they are cleaned up for sure and cheers from Australia 🐨🐑🦘🌴🌏🇦🇺 to your area in Ontario Canada 🍁🇨🇦 and i hope your Winter/Flu season over there is going good too while we are managing our Australian Hot Summers ☀⛱where we are in the states and yep the odd bush fires 🔥have been about but yeah luckily very manageable though and well parts of Australia have been a scorcher from WA (Western Australia) to well VIC (Victoria) NSW (New South Wales) and well parts of QLD (Queensland but yeah luckily the old Air Conditioner does help provide relief to anyone within the areas on the scorcher of a day etc.

@mikehuss8132 3 ай бұрын

I know you said you don't work on Dirtyhandtools snowblower but do you know the part number for a friction drive wheel for a 30 inch ?

@johnw1178 3 ай бұрын

That was an easy one! I hope you ran out and purchased a lottery ticket 😃😃😃😃😃. Great idea and thanks for sharing it. 👍👍👍👍👍

@gregorymacneil2836 3 ай бұрын

Is there any need to balance the pulley after the holes have been drilled? Great video - I am glad that I subscribe to your channel.

@donyboy73 3 ай бұрын

No need to!

@korosys 3 ай бұрын

What drill bits do you use?

@terrythoffman9375 3 ай бұрын

Viking drill bits, the best!

@1pcfred 3 ай бұрын

12 point sockets fit on 4 side hardware for a similar reason that they fit on 6 side hardware. Because 4 divides evenly into 12 too. If you try to use a 6 point socket you're going to have to use a hammer to get it on. Because 4 don't go into 6 evenly. But it does go with a little left over. So just give it a good smack to get past that remainder. Math!

@onemechca 3 ай бұрын

Again...Brilliant Don.. Bloody brilliant way to do that..Thanks for the tip bud.

@nebiertugrul5095 3 ай бұрын

👍🏼

@gjohnston281 3 ай бұрын

👍

@cougar1861 3 ай бұрын

Is pre-treatment of the pulley/shaft joint with a penetrating oil (donyboy73's favorite?) considered unnecessary?

@aussiehardwood6196 3 ай бұрын

Sometimes it requires throwing heat torch, lubricant or melted wax and just about every tool in the shop 😮. But it's a progression through the methods. This time the puller got her done early.

@cougar1861 3 ай бұрын

@@aussiehardwood6196 Thanks.

@chriswagner6310 3 ай бұрын

Hello

@psu7276 2 ай бұрын

Is there any reason why a flywheel puller would not work?

@donyboy73 2 ай бұрын

A flywheel puller similar to what I used will work.

@thepoopsoup 3 ай бұрын

Silver never seize on reassembly

@37yearsofanythingisenough39 3 ай бұрын

ABSOLUTELY

@RG-wy1ol 3 ай бұрын

Don when should I change spark plug on my wood splitter it’s 16 yrs old but still fires up on a dime .

@donyboy73 3 ай бұрын

I would definitely replace it after 16 years!

@37yearsofanythingisenough39 3 ай бұрын

Usually the spark plug on a small engine lasts a couple of generations. I had old Briggs 6B’s (1920’s and 30’s) that were brought into class that still fired correctly when the points were cleaned. If I had to guess the spark plug is probably the most unnecessarily change part on a small engine.

@steveclark.. 3 ай бұрын

I have several different sizes of 3 jaw pullers, can't you get or make one to fit that size of pulley. No messing with nuts, bolts and drilling holes then.

@raddepadde3177 3 ай бұрын

then the pulley will get warped.

@aussiehardwood6196 3 ай бұрын

I'm sure there is a bigger far more suitable 3 jaw with barbed pullers U could fit under the rim of the flywheel and it wouldn't require drilling or spacers. But...sometime U have to make do with watcha got, and he did just that!

@aussiehardwood6196 3 ай бұрын

@donyboy73 3 ай бұрын

It usually warps the pulley!

@37yearsofanythingisenough39 3 ай бұрын

The web of these types of pulleys is thin sheetmetal. Only put a puller on the outside rim of them if you want to bend and destroy them for future use.

@fixit4182 3 ай бұрын

Why would a snowblower need a pulley? Do they break?

@boonecountygenerators3052 3 ай бұрын

You can almost always find a 12-point socket to fit on a square headed plug or set screw. For instance, a 7/16 12-point socket fits perfectly on a 3/8 square oil drain plug. There is little need to buy separate sets of 8-point sockets.

@outboardfixer 3 ай бұрын

If MTD had a trace of a brain they would have rubbed a little NEVER SEIZE on them pulleys.....not even a thought about their customer......

@Zzrdemon6633 3 ай бұрын

A good used one? With 2 new holes in it? Sad to think people will learn from you

@labarbieXCJNGX 3 ай бұрын

Make some new content already. Enough of the snow blower

@37yearsofanythingisenough39 3 ай бұрын

I believe his idea was to show how to remove a large pulley found on a variety of small engine powered products. In this case he happened to have one frozen to a small engine shaft on a snow blower but this procedure could apply to other equipment.

@michaelotoole1807 3 ай бұрын

its winter. donny is getting winter equipment in for repair right now. wont be long for spring and summer equipment to enter his shop.

@nospamheredude5838 3 ай бұрын

'tis the season for snowblower repairs. This applies to pulley removal in general, not just this snowblower. If you come back in the Summertime , you can be a biotch about too many lawnmower repairs, ay.

@sjenka. 3 ай бұрын

Will work on snowblower tires ? How much i have room to drill hole before air space is reached between shaft and tire air space?

@37yearsofanythingisenough39 3 ай бұрын

Most small wheel/tire assemblies have web of flat steel before they flare out to form the chamber for air with the tire. Older walk behind snowblowers had lug nuts in this area before the arrival of a pin through the axle to hold the wheels on. If so stay in that flat area and you should be ok. If somehow you run into a problem with a small tubeless tire remember they make small inner tubes for tubeless tires. You may need a torch if the wheel is seriously rusted to the axle. If so remember you have fuel in the carb and tank. If you are able to remove it remember to apply anti seize to the assembly to save yourself future grief. Hope this helps says the old shop teacher.😅

@sjenka. 3 ай бұрын

@@37yearsofanythingisenough39 thanks bud yea they stuck bad .

@sjenka. 3 ай бұрын

@@37yearsofanythingisenough39 thanks bud yea they stuck bad .