BEFORE YOU INSTALL AN IMPELLER KIT ON A SNOWBLOWER, WATCH THIS!

possibly the very best way to improve your throwing distance with just about any two-stage snowblower is by adding an impeller kit one of the most overlooked benefits of adding an impeller kit is the snowblower's ability to plow through piles of heavy wet packed snow without bogging down in a previous video we threw that heavy wet gutter snow 30 feet this is the number one mod to make your snowblower truly unstoppable and we're putting an impeller kit on this 51 year old snowblower right now stick around hey guys and gals welcome back to garage gear i'm jb giving you the best tips and tricks to survive life in and out of the garage and remember if you're feeling the vibe and you want to be part of the tribe subscribe sure you could spray with some kind of cooking spray or put a ceramic coating on it or even hit it with some kind of silicone to prevent snow from sticking but at the end of the day let's be honest that stuff's gone after a few passes nothing and i mean absolutely nothing compares to installing an impeller kit an impeller kit closes the gap between the impeller blade and the housing in which it sits less gap means less snow getting caught around the outside around the outside around the outside wiping it clean with every single pass all the sprays in the world can't do that and will have to be reapplied that little piece of rubber there once mounted will close off that gap it will also ever so slightly extend this throwing arm improving your throwing distance not to mention by reducing that gap down to 1 16 of an inch your machine will never clog again now i already know that somebody out there is going to say it hey man like you're gonna avoid your warranty well minus the engine this unit is 51 years old i think we're a little past that i have had an impeller kit installed on my snow blower for almost a decade now no issues whatsoever and i've installed these on many other machines throughout the years as well no belt issues no chef bearing issues look it even says here the modified blades after installation will not cause excessive wear on the shaft bearings so increasing your snowblower surface life and once these rubber paddles break in after a use or two of squeegeeing around inside that auger housing you will be good to go let's unplug this spark plug to prevent any unwanted startups in previous impeller kit videos which i'll have linked down below in the description you'll see that i bolted down pieces of rubber to the impeller blades i prefer the bolt method some people out there like to use self-tapping screws that works fine i've heard a lot of good things about that method my only concern is that nothing is holding them down from the other end to each his own you take your pick i prefer the bolt method it's just my thing and now on amazon you can buy an entire impeller kit that comes with these rubber paddles i have four impeller blades so this will work out perfectly you get four metal washer straps with holes four sets of three one inch bolts and lock nuts they also include four self-tapping screws they say the instructions that these are for drilling your pilot holes i have a step bit here this should do the trick for getting our holes done what's really nice about buying it this way is you get even pieces of rubber that are all equally balanced if evenly installed however some trimming may be required because these aren't an exact fit after a couple of quick knife cuts on these quarter inch pieces of rubber life will be good i'm gonna begin by removing this shoot and now our shoot is free look at how much room we have here we have like a six inch workspace this is terrific now you can also see here that as i measure this in order to fit perfectly the paddles will need to be about three and one quarter inch long so now a big key thing here is you want to make sure that all these pieces are cut evenly as close as evenly as possible amongst all four i've had some people over the years tell me that you're going to throw off the balance of the impellers if these are different in size that may be true if they are way off but if you get them as close as possible you got nothing to worry about again ten years of no issues on that machine just saying i'm gonna squish these together as evenly as possible i'm gonna mark my three and a quarter inch line level it off now instead of doing individual knife cuts over and over and over again with a box knife what i'm going to do is use a multi-tool i'm going to slip them into my vise line them up and just run the blade over the top cutting all four at once well it doesn't get any more level than that that was an awesome tool to use for this job those are pretty even if you ask me now what i'm going to do is position this rubber flap exactly where i want it that looks pretty good if you ask me i'm just going to back it up maybe 1 16 of an inch i'm going to mark my holes i'm gonna remove my rubber paddle and get it out of the way now as you try to drill this here what's gonna happen is this impeller is gonna wanna spin so what i did is i stuck a board inside to prevent this whole thing from spinning let's drill them out and good that's a good size hole onto the next one and good to go now i'm just going to vacuum out any metal shavings next we're just going to take our bracket here with our bolts and slide them in i can adjust this up or down because of the big slots on that rubber panel that's nice i'm going to reach behind and get my nuts in place and good now the nuts are on now i just got to crank them down then what i'm gonna do is just snug these down with an extension on my impact driver and a wrench from below check this out i just spun this whole impeller around and you can see with that rubber flap all the metal shards that that thing just scooped up that's pretty cool i'm gonna vacuum those up you can see that that gap isn't very big and this thing only overhangs over the edge of that impeller blade just by a little bit there's your nuts on the bottom we're good to go now i just gotta do that three more times time out i wanted to show you something what you could do is you could get away with just doing two of the four impellers if you have three impellers you must do all three what i'm gonna do is do all four you could get away with just the two on opposite ends that would work fine but in this case we're gonna turn this into a tank we're doing all four [Music] there's number one number two number three and number four the clearance on each of them is less than a sixteenth of an inch these things are really tight to the inside wall of that housing let's get the chute back on and have some fun with this thing spark plug is back on it is now game time let's pop the garage get this thing outside turn it on and break in those paddles that machine is now breaking in panels are rounding out to the inside of the housing i've got some good snow here let's send it [Applause] 44 feet [Applause] there's our farthest dot we're at about 52 feet on minimal belt tension that's insane well how about that that thing ate up every bit of snow in front of it because of that shoot design it kind of barfs out this mist of it all over the driveway not to worry though i got shoot plans in store for that thing and at 52 feet not bad that's several feet farther than what we had earlier all right the sun's a setting but we got some gutter snow here we're gonna throw this this is the heavy wet stuff from the end of the street over 30 feet check it out the farthest bullet of snow from that pad over there all the way to here i measured it 45 feet coming from that end of the driveway holy smokes that's some serious heavy wet snow chucking right there well that machine went through all that snow like a hot knife through butter let's check out inside that impeller housing just a little ring of snow right up here in the front but that's no big deal because what matters is what the impeller kit is grabbing and throwing away taking a look down the chute nothing and just so we're clear here i have not sprayed anything inside this auger housing to truly show how nothing sticks inside that back impeller housing and if you ask me why i still spray everything down prior to using the snow blower even with an impeller kit on there the reason is i don't want snow sticking to the augers up front or the auger housing itself plus it'll prevent any rusting from happening the fun is not over yet there's plenty more fun to be had don't forget to give me one of these if you're interested in picking up some garage gear gear check out my links down below in the description for more cool garage gear videos check out my links right here thanks so much for watching and i'll see you in the garage [Music]

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 12 2022