We have an Ariens snowblower at work that decided to not run. It turns out that the plastic doohickey on the throttle shaft snapped.
So I JB Plastic Welded it back together.
This is obviously pre-glue but it seems to be holding. Problem is it won't idle. I tried a few different configurations with the butterfly and kinda landed where I started. It basically closes all the way and when I picked a way that held it open it got stuck at an idle and was sort of bound up. There is no stopper screw to crack it open off idle and I'm told it used to idle so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with this thing. For the time being it runs fine if you don't idle it all the way down and a new carb is on order, but in the meantime I'm perturbed that I couldn't figure this out on my own. It was torn apart when I got to it, I can say next time I go into one I'll be marking the butterflies before it comes apart but if there's also a rigging procedure I'd like to know what that is too as these small engine carbs are probably mostly similar across the board.
So I JB Plastic Welded it back together.
This is obviously pre-glue but it seems to be holding. Problem is it won't idle. I tried a few different configurations with the butterfly and kinda landed where I started. It basically closes all the way and when I picked a way that held it open it got stuck at an idle and was sort of bound up. There is no stopper screw to crack it open off idle and I'm told it used to idle so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with this thing. For the time being it runs fine if you don't idle it all the way down and a new carb is on order, but in the meantime I'm perturbed that I couldn't figure this out on my own. It was torn apart when I got to it, I can say next time I go into one I'll be marking the butterflies before it comes apart but if there's also a rigging procedure I'd like to know what that is too as these small engine carbs are probably mostly similar across the board.
