An old montgomery wards all metal 2 stroke blower was my favorite when i lived in the woods. It sat on the steps, it always started and i used it to get to my big snow blower.

If they were WELL taken care of they were great little snow throwers. I had a couple of them and they worked great. . .However, they are a pain in the patoot to work on. Anymore, when a customer brings them to me for repair, they are in terrible shape, usually neglected, so I will refuse to work on them. Thanks Arch. . . You're the best!

Back in 1984 I bought two s620c and a ccr2000e, all used. I have rental properties and leave them to use at each house when the snow is less than 6” deep. I have replaced the flappers on all of them and the belly pan on the ccr. Otherwise they just keep on working for more than 40 years. Noisy little suckers but showing them the appropriate love keeps them going. Over 6” of snow will see me trucking my orange and white ariens around.

I have two small snowblowers with the same engine. One i paid 75 bucks for 20 years ago and one I picked up for 5 bucks. I get them both running before the snow flys in Minnesota and rotate using them. If one croaks I still have a backup. I hate the smell but they do fine on my small driveway. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and have a mild winter!

Now that I’ve had a chance to watch the entire video, I’m inclined to take another direction, especially if I got ahold of one with the exact same symptoms. I’d be willing to bet that’s an air leak somewhere - head bolts, crank seals…. Since this was built heavier than today’s and has more power I’d take it completely apart, clean up the P&C and rebuild it. I’d definitely get the intake and exhaust off and do a P/V test to pinpoint the leak. I’ll bet sealing it up would get it up to at least 90 PSI and maybe throwing on a new piston ring would push it over 100. I’m sure this wouldn’t be worth it for most, but I’d take it on as a challenge and just another learning experience, as you mentioned. I’ve got a newer curb find Toro in really good condition but if I found an older one with more power I’d probably hang onto it.

We have one from 76-79 it works great! I only use canned ethanol free mix from home depot. It starts and runs first few pulls every year. Replaced the diaphragm about 3 years ago but other than that it’s worth every penny that my grandpa paid for it

My neighbors son has been using a Toro S200, or S620 he got for free from his sister who inherited it when she bought her house. From what i understand he loves it, and has been frequently restoring the common wear stuff on it. I had a junk S200 in my backyard i gave him to use for parts after he was only after a particular part on it. Better than scrapping it. I just got a Toro Powerlite running which has been sitting in my yard for 2 years, and it works pretty mean for a little thing. If the engines are kept healthy on these old machines more power to the people who keep them running, but i do understand the cost of repairing them professionally could be more than what they are worth. Then again people always spend alot on car repairs.

At 2:10 Arch shows off fancy new editing skills. Neato! 👍

I have a Snapper 3201 single stage 2-cycle. Probably around 40 years old. I love the goofy thing. It just won't quit. I rebuilt the Tecumseh carb and it works better than ever. I'll put some new rubber paddles on soon.

I trash picked one of these and did pretty much the same things you did. Cleaned the carb, cleaned the tank, replaced the fuel line, replaced the diaphragm... It ran pretty well for about 10 minutes and moved a decent amount of snow. Then it died and I couldn't get it started again. It seems like it always runs fine until it warms up. It feels like it's starving for fuel. A leaky seal would make sense.

We don’t even take those in anymore in our shop. And me being mostly blind it takes me longer to do those. Plus, parts are scarce for these around here.

Pressure test the engine case with soap bubbles

Got a 200 & 620 if you want them😋

Hi, great video. Im considering buying one of these, guy selling has kept it looking good, said he just replaced the starter drive gear. Was asking 250 cnd dollars brought it down to 190 , is this too much? Even if in good working condition?

Been a while since we have seen one of these snowblowers. They worked awesome for what they were when they were being used but a bitch to work on. Kinds similar to the new quiet technology engines that require 2 days to remove bolts to access the carb eh?

Can you say 4x4 rc truck.

You were trying to start it engaged and running engaged before it even warmed up. Just saying.