HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!!

[Leslie Judson Jones]

c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7_BloOc5QYc]

 

[Johnny]

Re: NOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

Thanks, Les!

 

[renegade_cowboy]

Re: NOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

Les You are an American Badass.. Between this and the little giant heater videos you input in the industry is priceless. Thank you so much for showing myself and all others what to do when a blower gets stuck. Huge asset..

 

[Leslie Judson Jones]

Re: NOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

i]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1PomcWNLAi]

 

[Desk Jockey]

Re: NOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

That's awesome of you to make the video Les! hey now

Mike needs a page where video's can readily be retrieved, this is one that will be viewed often.

 

[Jay_wat]

Re: NOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

That's awesome of you to make the video Les! hey now

Mike needs a page where video's can readily be retrieved, this is one that will be viewed often.

x2!!

 

[Mike Draper]

Re: NOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

since 1980 that would be 280,512 hours.

 

[Leslie Judson Jones]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnFSVoXMMRMo]

 

[tmdry]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

Thanks Les.

The part that I thought was the pulley is actually that bushing that cracked in half when I removed it, the pulley itself is fine.

Bill

 

[vincent]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

I want those gauges for mine.

Now.

 

[tmdry]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

I want those gauges for mine.

Now.

X2

I've looked online but coundn't figure out where to purchase them.

 

[Zee]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

Nice collection of hats Les! J/K J/K

 

[bob vawter]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

rather than take it apart to smack it with a 2' x2'......
try filling up the blower with warm water and letting it set.........you can usually fill the blower from the waste tank sid very easy...

i had one take 4 or five hours of soaking till it broke loose........
Les is right about that sweet spot.......sticking!

 

[Duane Oxley]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

Great video as always, Les.

In looking at it, I found it interesting to see a different way to un- stick a blower than the way I do it.

What I do differently is loosen all casing bolts, front and back, before trying to turn it. (The lobes have thousandths of an inch clearance with the end plates, too. And if you look at the surface area there- at the plates, it's a lot more than the area between the lobes at any point of rotation. So loosening the plates really widens that space and reduces the "drag" caused by corrosion build- up.) Then I try to "bump" the blower rotation by bumping the key switch on the system engine. If it doesn't budge, then I pull out the pipe wrench. If I have to put so much torque on it that I can feel the shaft begin to "flex", then I remove the blower from the system and take the front (shaft side) plate off of the blower entirely, to look more closely at what I'm dealing with. (It's pretty amazing just how much "stuff" gets caked inside of a blower that has thousands of an inch clearance to move around.) Usually, if I gt in deep enough to take the shaft- side plate off, I go ahead and take the casing off as well, so I can look at the back of the lobes and the gear- side plate. (I've only had to do that mebbie 5 times and virtually always with a blower that had been just "sitting there", collecting dust and corrosion, for a year or more.)

Doing it your way obviously works well and would definitely be the better way to go on a DSL blower.

Thanks for the illustration.

Duane

 

[bob vawter]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

ya an' if ya run clear water THRU the blower every other day...
it will NEVER stick again.........

 

[tmdry]

Re: HOW TO UNSTICK A STUCK TRUCKMOUNT BLOWER FOR BRENT !!!!!

I thought.........

Only.......

Jim Martin.....

Talked w/ the multiple dots like this....

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