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Old 12-15-2013, 11:05 AM   #1
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snowblower shear pins?

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I have a craftsman 9hp 2 stage blower. I got it from my neighbor last year and another neighbor broke the shear pin. He replaced it with a stainless bolt last year. I removed the bolt and put a shear pin in. My question is do snowblowers typically have 1 or 2 shear pins? There appears to be a place for two of them, 1 has the shear pin, the other looks like a regular bolt. Thanks.

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Old 12-15-2013, 11:28 AM   #2
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Never use a regular bolt. Use what ever shear pin that craftsman recommends for all of the openings along the blade shaft.
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Old 12-15-2013, 11:31 AM   #3
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I would say two shear pins. they are there to protect the machine, if something gets caught you risk snapping a shaft or busting a gearbox which would be much worse to fix. If the holes get too worn you won't be able to keep shear pins in there unfortunately...

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Old 12-15-2013, 11:36 AM   #4
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I have the same snowblower, two shear bolts. One for each Auger. You can get the MTD brand ones at Home depot. Get a bunch and keep a few spare. I just ordered a friction rubber wheel, time to replace mine.. Mine will only go in forward speed 1

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Cool,
It looked like 2 and i have 1 extra so i will be replacing it shortly. Thanks guys.

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Old 12-18-2013, 07:41 AM   #6
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Shear pins are like wood clamps you can not have enough of em
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Old 12-18-2013, 09:56 AM   #7
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shear pins are designed to "shear" off when the load is too great
bolts won't shear off...they wanna bend first. just sayin
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Old 12-18-2013, 08:29 PM   #8
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get extras if you find them. It's kinda like being without that one swimbait everyone else is using that you didn't pack
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Yup. Sheared off my first one with this machine today. I had picked up a dozen and put them in a cloth bag with two 1/2 inch box wrenches and a punch about four years ago. Hung them on a hook in the garage. Never needed them until today when I managed to find a boulder in a snow bank.... Stopped the engine as soon as it locked up in the auger. Damned if I could find that bag..... Got a couple out of my brother's supply.
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