A nap or...?

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I was starting to get rather tired.  I wasn't sure I would be able to push on through.  It was after noon though... a bad thing.  Naps, if they are going to be helpful and not destructive have to happen by 11:00.  I have slipped a time or two with my schedule kept in tact as extreme exceptions, but generally that is simply the rule.  Oh, wait, the belt!  For the snow blower.  Hmm, but in my research I had not been able to find a thing on it, at YouTube.  I went back and did another search.  I found something similar for another brand...  I did watch that, and it was somewhat generally helpful.  Then I noticed a heavier repair job on a Troy Bilt, so I clicked and watched.  Alright... that... pretty much covered what I was doing, at least the teardown part of it.  There was nothing about putting the machine back together.

I headed out, tools and gloves and hat and jacket.  The teardown, for the most part, was rather painless.  The only tricky thing was getting the clutch engage cord to part from the gear assembly.  Hmm...  When all else fails, use brute force, replacing what might be necessary on the rare occasions something breaks.  If it's expensive, you just learned something!  Well, nothing broke, so all good.  The rest of the teardown went rather smoothly.  I, mostly, figured out how to get the belt wheel off.  It came off oddly though, and I hate when it does that.  It means... it's going to be picky, and tricky, about going back.  I got the belt on, and... tinkered.  I am pretty sure I got it right.  Maybe not every tiny single last syllable, no, but basically I said em', yeah.  Basically.  Hail to the king, baby?

I put the thing back together fairly well.  The chord was, again, a problem.  I thought about cutting the spring a bit, so as to put it back on a lot easier.  The snips didn't work, the big snips didn't work, so I got the BIG SNIPS.  Those worked.  I did lose a cotter pin, for the end of the funnel direction changing bar, so I will have to get some of those.  The problem is, the belt is not tight enough.  I am sure it is simply a matter of... a few more syllables?  :p  My lower back was killing me though.  No worries, now that I know how to tear it down, and have some idea of a couple of things, it will eventually be put back together correctly.  Not bad for the first... mechanical repair in my life, I think?  I haven't even changed a spark plug, or tire, yet, actually. I am over the notion of a nap though!  And, if my back feels better in an hour or two, with the sun out, I might give it another crack.

Later.