pattipinar

I AM TRYING TO GET A BENT SHEAR PIN OUT OF MY SNOWBLOWER. IT WAS PUT IN BACKWARDS. AN EASY WAY OF REMOVING IT?

931guru

Yes, go to your Porsche Dealer and ask them for the Snowblower Sheer Pin Straightener Tool. I'm sure that they will be happy to oblige.

Jay Wellwood

USE A CUTTING TORCH TO REMOVE THE AREA WHERE THE PIN IS INSTALLED

Scott at Team Harco

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS:
1) A BFH
2) THE BLUE WRENCH

YOU'RE WELCOME.

LET US KNOW HOW IT WORKS OUT.

screamin94Z

CUT BENT PIN. REMOVE IN TWO PIECES. REPLACE WITH UN-BENT VERSION.

bkrantz

i would run the snowblower backwards and shove snow into the blower chute. (note my all lower case to average out too many caps on this page.)

makes me think about posting a 944 tech question on some ariens forum.

Otto Mechanic

To be perfectly honest, I just run the blower until the shear pin fails, then I replace it. It's just a shear pin, if it breaks, it's because it's supposed to? It's a designed in weak link.

My blower was a Schulte, 9 feet wide, attached to a John Deere 4630 (60 hp engine) so you'll have to take that advice with a grain of salt

But the real question that keeps me awake at night is whether my wife might bite off my head and lay eggs in my rotting carcass.

These are the questions that truly bother me.

Tiger03447

Otto is right....shear pins are soft and are made to break. See if you can use a punch and hammer to drift it out of the hole in the shaft. Failing that, you may have to heat the shaft to make things expand enough to release. Try punching it out some more while it's hot. If all this fails, you'll have to drill it out. This may require an oversize shear pin if you go too large on the redrilling gig. OTOH, I presume that Otto married my ex-wife... I played dead..LOL!

Kurt R

I've replaced my shear pins with 1/4 bolts made of the finest chinesium. They still break before other stuff, but they're a whole lot cheaper than John Deere shear pins.

What truly troubles me is I'm staring at an ad for Performance 383 stroker from Tri-Star. Spencer said I shouldn't put that in a 944, and Scott said I should just get a Corvette, so why the ad? I know it's targeted at me, "they" won't let me wear my tinfoil hat at work, it interferes with the paper one.

Otto Mechanic

I did not suggest you buy a Corvette, rather, I suggested you buy a 928, preferably a late model manual GTS. That should satisfy your neo-adolescent desire for raw power; at least it did for me

Baring that, you might consider an '85 S3 with Ken's chip set and Greg's fuel line enhancements, but that of course is another story...