Getting sick of my mongrel snowblower:
Toro 724 probably 20 years old. When I got it home I took the "small block" tecumseh 7 hp motor off and gave it to my FIL. He put it on his rototiller that suffered castatrophic engine damage. Used the tiller carb, pulley, air intake etc. Runs great for him.
I had a similar vintage toro 824 that blew the wheel transmission fairly dramatically, so I yanked the 8 hp "big block" tec motor off that, drilled two new mounting holes (out of 4), and put it to work.
However the finicky carb, nasty starter rope etc has me thinking of throwing in the towel and repowering with, gasp, chonda. Figure it should go easy since they stepped in when tecumseh with belly up. This are also internal politics with the wife; the rest of the blower is in good shape and I can say, see honey, it should start, it's 100% new.
Nice 6.5 hp horizontal shaft on sale at horrible freight, but it has a 3/4" output shaft. My "Big block" has an inch. The dual pulley on the end has a belt for wheel drive and another for the auger. My 1" pulley never needed to come off and fits the belts perfectly, so I figure it's fairly standard. My old 3/4 pulley is points unknown.
So... anyone know where I could get such a pulley? Should I be shopping under tecumseh part numbers or chonda ones? I found a small engine parts website but they want serial numbers off an engine series I don't have in my posession... Or maybe I could sleeve the pulley I have?
Toro 724 probably 20 years old. When I got it home I took the "small block" tecumseh 7 hp motor off and gave it to my FIL. He put it on his rototiller that suffered castatrophic engine damage. Used the tiller carb, pulley, air intake etc. Runs great for him.
I had a similar vintage toro 824 that blew the wheel transmission fairly dramatically, so I yanked the 8 hp "big block" tec motor off that, drilled two new mounting holes (out of 4), and put it to work.
However the finicky carb, nasty starter rope etc has me thinking of throwing in the towel and repowering with, gasp, chonda. Figure it should go easy since they stepped in when tecumseh with belly up. This are also internal politics with the wife; the rest of the blower is in good shape and I can say, see honey, it should start, it's 100% new.
Nice 6.5 hp horizontal shaft on sale at horrible freight, but it has a 3/4" output shaft. My "Big block" has an inch. The dual pulley on the end has a belt for wheel drive and another for the auger. My 1" pulley never needed to come off and fits the belts perfectly, so I figure it's fairly standard. My old 3/4 pulley is points unknown.
So... anyone know where I could get such a pulley? Should I be shopping under tecumseh part numbers or chonda ones? I found a small engine parts website but they want serial numbers off an engine series I don't have in my posession... Or maybe I could sleeve the pulley I have?
