How To Replace A Drive Friction Disc On An Ariens Snowblower 

Nice video! Pretty impressive that you can work one handed while running the camera with the other. Thanks again

Pictures and videos are worth a thousand words...good job once again Mr. Taryl! Your a good teacher.

Excellent instructions, camera work, tips, damn this guy should have a million $ TV contract

Taryl, thanks for what you do! I found your small engine repair videos while searching for info on how to fix one of my jobs. I was diagnosing my in laws 2011 craftsman GT 6000 with the kohler courage 26 hp that would start then immediately stall. The ignition switch was faulty. Even though you had no videos on my problem, i still watched them for two days and many hours because they were so informative. I will be far more prepared for the next fix thanks to you!

Hi Taryl, Best instructor on these machines ever. Love all your videos. Interesting and very informative. Glad to see how to change out this disc. Cheers from NS Canada

ITS COLDER THAN HELL UP HERE IN CANADA ..... THANX FOR THE HELLO .... KEEP WARM TARYL

Good to have you back Taryl. My Ariens has the gears on the right side, and I remember doing the same thing that you did except I took out the left side bushing. Great video!

Start off real stupid and annoyed me . I almost turned it off but it was actually a great video. Thank you very much. It actually grew on me and I actually found it funny . Thanks, keep up the great work!

GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS BACK ! JUST MOVED TO VISALIA CALIFORNIA ! WILL ORDER A FEW T-SHRITS ! AFTER THE 3rd OF FEB ! IT'S COSTING A LITTLE MORE TO LIVE HERE ! LOL ! BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT RAINING FOR 8 MONTHS OUT OF THE YEAR ! LIKE IT DID IN ASTORIA OR,

.......thanks again T..........I bought the t shirt....and wear it with pride. Keep the great vids coming.

Thank you for the comedy and the expert step by step repair. I’m about to tear my Arieno up!,! Thank you again

HAHA lots of people on the turbo lax down there. Thanks for the mention guys . Great fix Taryl. Cheers !!!

Love it! Only business on planet earth that provides "safe zone" for sticker shock patrons.

Big Canadian Fan here Taryl,,, Great Stuff LOL...!!!!!

Love the education and humor!! Many thanks!!

Chad Morgan, the Aussie country singer could eat an apple through a tennis racquet too. Highly entertaining pantomime guys, keep up the good work.

and there's your dinner, Thanks Taryl, Missed ya and all the other staff.

Great video. My neighbour just through out his ariens snowblower. He said the transmission was gone because it was making a knocking sound and it wont start. I changed the fuel, new plug and now need to replace the drive disc because the rubber broke off and good as new. Runs great now. Thx for your video, and yes I am drinking beer and watching hockey

Welcome back! Great video. I've held my own bowels waiting for your return. Ooops, gotta go now....!

good to have ya back Taryl, thank you for da dinner.

Taryl saved me some more work and headaches! Thanks.

Hello from Canada 🇨🇦

I’m a fan from Canada and I did watch hockey tonight

Glad your back. I sure have missed your videos.

👍Good video, thx T👍 that drive disk is similar to my old Snapper RER. Wish TARYL had a video on it. It’s always giving me issues. Old girl 1980’s. Thx again guys, good stuff👍

thank you for the video very educational..all the way from Michigan

Good to see you Taryl...any more outtakes because you crack me up every time you get tongue tied

nothing like a lil toilet humor thrown in..... HAHA.....

Welcome back Taryl , good to see you back to your wacky self, by the way great video on the friction disc

Good Video Taryl

finally! I've been waiting for a new video... love your stuff man.

from Canada. ...you know your stuff. ... THANKS.

been waiting on your video could watch them all day thanks Taryl keep them coming

Curse you snow!!! I hate snow. Ariens model 420- haha. Time for 420 (a little) before and (hookah) after using that damn thing. Thanks for another awesome, practical, and well done video!

Made in Canada mean it last longer than chinese knockoff ! for sure ! cheers from Canada Taryl!

Excellent .

Great video as always ,hope you and your boys had great holiday glad your back!!

Brilliant video thank you 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

My dinner tonight made my stomach a little queasy after watching this video I actually had to run to the bathroom and download after hearing so much rectal activity going on in your waiting room.

great tips

Lol yep hockey and beer thats what we do. Cheers and i watch every video

How did this one get by me? I started my day off with a really good laugh!

good job...

“No, you better open the lid for this one!” I’m roaring with laughter. Watched it twice.

I didn't notice if you checked the shaft bushing on the opposite machine side of the egged out bushing for wear ....are the bushings the self- lubricating / oil impregnated bronze type?

i like your videos man. i got a '77 Ariens 924 8hp hm80 & 32"

I was wondering why they had a crapper in the middle of the waiting room at the Expert Tire. Geez, ya learn something every day.

Lmao hilarious man, also a great tip with the plastic bag on the gas cap. Just subbed! P.s. Cheers from Ontario Canada!

thanks Taryl ...

Great video Taryl.....The beginning was a little Crappy though.!!!

That's exactly what I was doing when I was watching this video!

you are a crazy awesome dude, nice job Taryl !!!!

Taryl. Your video made me RETURN a $1600 replacement for my Ariens 5524. The old Ariens gear box "fell apart" and I thought there was no hope. The linkage was loose, it appeared to be missing parts, and there were two washers floating around in there, with a big hole where drive shaft stuck out the side, etc. To a lay KNKLHEAD like me, how the heck can that thing go back together? There's no bolts for the washers, how does the fork move the ring, what holds the fork pin end in? So I bought a shiny new Toro. I saw your AWESOME video and my friend said, "you're not such a KNKLHEAD! You can fix stuff! I cannot believe how easy this goes back together, and what a strange way that washers are what hold the fork on the shifter ring. The new bushing, holds/keeps tension on the shift control pin back into the little hole and the washers hold the fork -- all very dependent on the bushing keeping the shaft where all the gizmos stay in place. I promptly took the 24 back out into a snow bank to test 'er out and promised a snow picnic date with it soon. It is so, so much easier to move around that 24 than the 300lb monster I bought, so I returned that for the cash. Don't tell my wife about the picnic date OR the $1600. Stay handsome.

good job Taryl from montreal

G'Day back from Canada eh!

I think the reason why you have so many Canadian followers is, they find you a lot more handsome than the average American.

You should put up some videos on how to change the blades on a chipper

Great video. Helped me a lot with washer locations and bearing cap setup. Keep up the great work. Also love the teeth🤪

the acting i see a academy award

Ariens had a mini riding mower with that style of drive. it was small, about half the size of a regular riding mower.

It looks like the driven disk for my little forest gump 28" snapper rider. Next time add desert too. thnx, so hungry!

Is there a bushing in the opposite end of the shaft and do you apply a little grease to the inside of the new bushing where the shaft goes thru it? Thanks and your videos rule. Best repair guy ever..

Great video...funny too!! Hey the friction disc shaft is rusted in. Any tips on getting it to feed through. I've tried PB blaster, heat etc. HELP!!

Get it into possession, lube it on up, n skin 'er back! Thanks for the videos, cheers!!

hi from Quebec

if the bearing on the right was bad is it possible the bearing on the left was worn also?

How about a video on electric clutch repair and trouble shooting

I have noticed that Americans say Carriage bolt, Aussies [Me] say coach bolt. Now that is a fun fact right there ! Brian? .

Hey taryl, love the videos my ariends has the locking drive wheels maybe refer on another snow blower vid

Taryl is that a Dewalt 3/8 in. impact wrench you use? Very versatile. Great video thanks!

Can you please do a video on changing out a worm gear on a Jacobsen imperial 26, that one of the only video your missing

Greetings from Canada. Do you think storing the blower on blocks to take the weight off the bushings would prolong the bushing life? My 8 hp BobCat weighs just over 300 lbs.

Taryl luv the videos keep them coming. By the way I'm looking for a portable generator for the house in case of power outage what's the best?

i do snow removel in canada its nov no snow but deer hunting this winter and snow removal in between

have you made a video on replacing the disc plate the friction disc runs on?

lol 12:21 hello from ottawa canada!

Any Walker GHS repair video's?

taryl you are a very brave person... because there could of been a Canadian Sasquatch hiding under the cover..:/ and there's your yeti dinner all over the whitish throne

Hey Taryl yes you are right we use the shit out of these with lake effect snow in Hamilton Ontario 30 min from Toronto and 1 hour from Buffalo NY.

taryl dactal your the shit man 👊👍👍👍👍👍

OK, now it's getting Stupid................ I remove the 3 bolts and pin and slide the driven disc off when the shaft is partially removed. Different if you are also changing the Oil-Lite bushing. In that case shift lever to Reverse to get more room for the 4 Carriage bolts. Those bushings can be rotated 180 degrees so good side is at the Top of the unit when it is in operating position. They only wear on one side as Disc pushes shaft upwards. Ditto with the axle bearings although you might have gear teeth jumping.

9:52 = the best sound ever, haha

I cant find the part number for my friction disc. I have an Ariens Sno-Tek model 920402. Can you help with this.

How hard is it to change out that pressure plate itself?

Hello Taryl is it best to get the oem disk and spend the extra cash or are the aftermarkets just as good.

Great video!! My 932041-ST7524E looks just like the inside of yours. I want to replace the friction disk. However the shaft is seized/rusted to the bearing. On the left side..... by the small pinion gear. I can remove the left exterior bearing cap and the right bearing cap.... but I cant get the shaft out of the left bearing so that I can slide the shaft all the way to the right. Suggestions? Can I apply heat to the bearing? Will this ruin the bearing and require replacement? Thanks Bill

When I was a kid my dad had a snapper with the motor on back he had to change that same type of disc before for the transmission i think

Bushing stuck on drive side of axel, so I can’t remove mechanism from machine? Any ideas

My friction plate on my st1332 deere/ ariens is binding and has to be pried back and forth toward or away from the friction wheel will not move with lever..... Have not taken it apart yet don't know if it is shift fork or what.. Might be a spring project...

I wrote to Ariens to ask them if it would do any harm to move the settings of the friction disc so that I would have a third reverse ( I know I would then have only 5 forward ) but the reverse is so slow and I never use that 6 th. They answered that they would not do that because the sno-thro was not made to work that way. What do YOU think please. Thanks for sharing. Love your video. I have a Ariens pro 28 2017.

Do you have or know of a video showing how to remove and replace the friction plate that this friction wheel contacts?

Holy cow now that's funny right there.😅

1st, thank you for all your videos. A question about a similar part for a JUNK weed eater lawn tractor WE261, 960240001 friction drive disk. Weed eater would like you to buy the whole transaxle ass. for about 300.00 +-. Im having a trouble finding the part number for just the friction disk. can you help ?

Hi Taryl, do you know where I could get an old Briggs small flo-jet carburetor with the 4 screws on top for my 1946 Model A Briggs?

Yes By .

Hey Taryl!😀 I had asked you a question in your last video but you must have missed it, I was just wondering is it ok to use fully synthetic oil in Tractor engines? I have a Kohler Command single 14HP in mine and it needs an oil change before next season.. Just wondering if it's ok or not to use fully synthetic??:)

Is this the same for a 1024 ariens

Why not do bushing on other side

12:19 Hello !

Could you machine down those friction plates some, or is the labor cost the same as to order a new one? We like you channel, at times it makes me laugh out loud.