Cable-clutch 117-9145

Although this is a pretty simple repair, I had to perform my repair twice. The first time I failed to route the cable through the cable guide and it broke almost instantly. After reviewing the snowblower drawings more closely, I discovered the \"hidden\" (i say hidden because it is not obvious on the drawing or by visually inspecting th ... Read more e snow blower) cable guide. This time I removed the cable guide, one screw, routed the clutch cable through the guide, and reinstalled the guide. Everything is working fine.

(read all before attempting repair)
1. Remove the access panel, large pulley on the left and power belt. this gives you better access to hold the clutch cable guide so that you can keep the guide\'s locating peg in it\'s hole while screwing in the single phillips screw holding the part in the proper position.
2. The clutch cab ... Read more le should be threaded through and above the handle\'s opening to the body of the machine and fished out at the hole where the clutch cable guide is placed on the inside of the hole and and then the clutch cable should be threaded through the clutch cable guide into the \"in\" and \"out\" holes of the clutch cable guide before the clutch cable guide is attached to the machine with its screw.
3. Attach the clutch cable to the clutch assemblies far right upper hole so that there is no kinking and when the cable is pulled down, the clutch spring action is activated smoothly with no rubbing on any other surfaces with the cable.
4. Attach the other end of the cable to the handle and adjust as per the operator\'s manual.
5. Replace the power belt with it around all the pulleys first (again refer to manual\'s illustration) including the one that was removed and then replace the pulley that was removed using the bolt in the middle of the pulley.
6. Test the clutch handles action to be sure the clutch engages and disengages properly.
7. Replace the access panel.
8. Test with the engine running with the clutch handle forward to be sure the paddles stop and when the clutch handle is held down, the paddles spin.

Biggest problem l had was l just had a complete left knee replacement, l couldn\'t get on my hands and knees, end up putting the snowblower on the work bench, that worked out good !! That probably sound easy but picking up the snowblower feels like my new knee was going to pop out of my leg !! The new cable works great !!
W ... Read more ish the ends of the cable was made out steel, instead pop metal !! Thanks