I want to thank you so much for having this video on here. I have a Sno Joe SJ624E and that has the two belts like yours. The set up is the same except on your small belt pully, you have a bolt and after watching, I looked at mine closer and discovered it had a nut but was hard to see it was a nut. I found a socket to fit and was able to remove it and put the new belt on. I have been working on this for a week trying to figure out what I was going to do. Thank You again for your wonderful video!!
Thank you! I have the same Toro Snow Thrower. A friend gave me his 25-30 years ago. It has always did a great job for me. Today, we had 27" and when I was almost done, the motor was going, but not the blades. I took it apart and it was the smaller belt. I walked to Cramer's and bought both belts. I had everything apart, so why not? Didn't take me long to replace both bolts. I vacuumed the opening out and lubricated everything. Works like brand new. I could not have done it without watching your video first. 😊
Thank you for taking the time to make this video for others. I've replaced the larger belt on an older unit a few years ago but wasn't sure how to change the smaller one until I saw this video. Cheers!
Thanks for your video. In addition to the belts, I need to also replace the white plastic pulley. The old belt has worn and burned/melted into the pulley surface & warped it. Question: To remove the white pulley, is the nut reverse thread? Do you simply use a 7/8 socket and on the other side (underneath the protective panel) fasten an Allen wrench to keep the nut from spinning when loosening/removing it?
FYI: 1) Prior to the 'flash' running out it was difficult to read the serial numbers on the belts. Without that light made it MUCH easier to read. 2) Maybe you should've had someone else hold the camera? ;-) When mine stopping throwing snow I thought it might've been a shear-pin. Thanks for clearing that up for us all. The images on their website are hard to make-out the parts.
Any ideas on how to remove the red cover to access the brushes in the motor? It requires the wheels and axle to be removed so the cover can slide out, since the axle supports pass through them. However, it seems the wheels were not designed to be removed after manufacture. I was thinking I might just cut the axle in the middle and put a sleeve to connect them afterwards, but maybe the better way works be to just slot and notch the red cover so it can slide off the supports. I must be missing something though, because it would be ridiculous that the cover can't be removed for the maintenance it requires for the brushes. Especially since they're exposed to the snow through the vents in the cover, promoting corrosion on the brush connectors. When I opened it up, it was packed with snow so around the motor, which can't be a good thing. What am I missing? 🤔 I measured the brushes and they were 7mm x 11mm, length about 20mm. I ordered some generic brushes 7x11x18, which I'll try as replacements when they come in.
I have not tried to remove the cover to access the motor brushes but that is an interesting question. I'll take a look at a little later on this afternoon and get back to youI'll take a look at a little later on this evening and get back to you.
Ok, sorry for the late reply. The axle is secured using push cap nuts. I found a video showing how to remove/replace these. It's a great question you posed as I have to replace the motor as the brush assembly completely broke off shattered and melted. I will do a video today or tomorrow and show how to access. Here is link for the nut removal: ruclips.net/video/1M6p46Qp3XM/видео.html
@@silverstake88 The methods shown are all well and good except Toro has them inside a recess of the plastic wheels, so it defies my cutoff saw or using sufficiently hefty pliers to grab them. It would take a finer approach like drilling or a Dremel tool to get it to release its hold without melting down the plastic wheel. I might try drilling first and then see if a slide hammer might work, but it's pretty tiny and a screw likely wouldn't be able to get in far enough to grab it. Plan B is to slice the plastic cover to slide it sideways past the axle supports rather than straight up off them. I'm thinking that will make for easier maintenance down the line for future brush replacement anyway, rather than fussing with the silly push nut design. If I do remove the wheel, I'll drill a hole in the axle for a cotter pin or even tap some threads on the axle to use a nut, which is how they *should* have done it. For sure I'm not going to put another push nut on it 🙃
I've gone with the cut the axle in half approach, there's absolutely no way to remove the push nuts while they sit in the recess of the wheel. I slotted the push nut with a cutoff wheel, and removed the top entirely, but that doesn't help one bit, as the sides are still corrosion welded to the sides. I've got it off now, and threaded the cut rod ends with a 3/8" die. If I can get a coupler nut I'll use that to reconnect it afterwards, or weld two nuts that I have in hand to make a coupler.
Thanks for your posts. I also wanted to get the wheels and red cover off so that I could take a look at the brushes. I wound up drilling a 1/8 inch hole in one push cap and then I kept increasing the drill bit size until the top of the cap was gone. At that point, I sprayed pb blaster in there and while prying out on it with a screwdriver, I was able to use channel locks to wrestle it off. Not pretty but it worked. My brushes appeared to be good and so did my belts but the machine is not working the way it used to, any ideas??? Also was the brush connection soldered on there? I couldn't tell. Thank you!
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I want to thank you so much for having this video on here. I have a Sno Joe SJ624E and that has the two belts like yours. The set up is the same except on your small belt pully, you have a bolt and after watching, I looked at mine closer and discovered it had a nut but was hard to see it was a nut. I found a socket to fit and was able to remove it and put the new belt on. I have been working on this for a week trying to figure out what I was going to do. Thank You again for your wonderful video!!
You're welcome.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for posting purchased items online and literally fixed my snowblower in 15 minutes. Thank you again for taking the time to share
Hey, you're quite welcome!
Thank you! I have the same Toro Snow Thrower. A friend gave me his 25-30 years ago. It has always did a great job for me. Today, we had 27" and when I was almost done, the motor was going, but not the blades. I took it apart and it was the smaller belt. I walked to Cramer's and bought both belts. I had everything apart, so why not?
Didn't take me long to replace both bolts. I vacuumed the opening out and lubricated everything. Works like brand new.
I could not have done it without watching your video first.
😊
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This saved my day my belt came off and showed me how to do it thank you
Awesome! 👍
Thank you for doing this. Very clear explanation
You're welcome!
Excellent clarity. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video for others. I've replaced the larger belt on an older unit a few years ago but wasn't sure how to change the smaller one until I saw this video. Cheers!
Anthony Lee you're welcome! Glad I could help.
Awesome! Couldn't have been explained any better!
Thanks for this, I'll be changing my belts this weekend when the new ones arrive
Thanks for your video. In addition to the belts, I need to also replace the white plastic pulley. The old belt has worn and burned/melted into the pulley surface & warped it. Question: To remove the white pulley, is the nut reverse thread? Do you simply use a 7/8 socket and on the other side (underneath the protective panel) fasten an Allen wrench to keep the nut from spinning when loosening/removing it?
Sorry I didn't catch your question earlier. Regarding the white pulley - I'm not sure. Never attempted to remove it.
Awesome. I’ll be using a 9/16 socket.
FYI: 1) Prior to the 'flash' running out it was difficult to read the serial numbers on the belts. Without that light made it MUCH easier to read. 2) Maybe you should've had someone else hold the camera? ;-)
When mine stopping throwing snow I thought it might've been a shear-pin. Thanks for clearing that up for us all. The images on their website are hard to make-out the parts.
Any ideas on how to remove the red cover to access the brushes in the motor? It requires the wheels and axle to be removed so the cover can slide out, since the axle supports pass through them.
However, it seems the wheels were not designed to be removed after manufacture.
I was thinking I might just cut the axle in the middle and put a sleeve to connect them afterwards, but maybe the better way works be to just slot and notch the red cover so it can slide off the supports.
I must be missing something though, because it would be ridiculous that the cover can't be removed for the maintenance it requires for the brushes.
Especially since they're exposed to the snow through the vents in the cover, promoting corrosion on the brush connectors. When I opened it up, it was packed with snow so around the motor, which can't be a good thing.
What am I missing? 🤔
I measured the brushes and they were 7mm x 11mm, length about 20mm. I ordered some generic brushes 7x11x18, which I'll try as replacements when they come in.
I have not tried to remove the cover to access the motor brushes but that is an interesting question. I'll take a look at a little later on this afternoon and get back to youI'll take a look at a little later on this evening and get back to you.
Ok, sorry for the late reply.
The axle is secured using push cap nuts. I found a video showing how to remove/replace these. It's a great question you posed as I have to replace the motor as the brush assembly completely broke off shattered and melted. I will do a video today or tomorrow and show how to access.
Here is link for the nut removal:
ruclips.net/video/1M6p46Qp3XM/видео.html
@@silverstake88 The methods shown are all well and good except Toro has them inside a recess of the plastic wheels, so it defies my cutoff saw or using sufficiently hefty pliers to grab them.
It would take a finer approach like drilling or a Dremel tool to get it to release its hold without melting down the plastic wheel. I might try drilling first and then see if a slide hammer might work, but it's pretty tiny and a screw likely wouldn't be able to get in far enough to grab it.
Plan B is to slice the plastic cover to slide it sideways past the axle supports rather than straight up off them. I'm thinking that will make for easier maintenance down the line for future brush replacement anyway, rather than fussing with the silly push nut design.
If I do remove the wheel, I'll drill a hole in the axle for a cotter pin or even tap some threads on the axle to use a nut, which is how they *should* have done it.
For sure I'm not going to put another push nut on it 🙃
I've gone with the cut the axle in half approach, there's absolutely no way to remove the push nuts while they sit in the recess of the wheel. I slotted the push nut with a cutoff wheel, and removed the top entirely, but that doesn't help one bit, as the sides are still corrosion welded to the sides.
I've got it off now, and threaded the cut rod ends with a 3/8" die. If I can get a coupler nut I'll use that to reconnect it afterwards, or weld two nuts that I have in hand to make a coupler.
Thanks for your posts. I also wanted to get the wheels and red cover off so that I could take a look at the brushes. I wound up drilling a 1/8 inch hole in one push cap and then I kept increasing the drill bit size until the top of the cap was gone. At that point, I sprayed pb blaster in there and while prying out on it with a screwdriver, I was able to use channel locks to wrestle it off. Not pretty but it worked. My brushes appeared to be good and so did my belts but the machine is not working the way it used to, any ideas??? Also was the brush connection soldered on there? I couldn't tell. Thank you!
Nice, thanks. NO lube on the intermediate pully you removed the bolt/nut/shaft from?
No.