Try to tighten up the nut behind the round knob a little bit to squeeze the packing tighter, due to the age the packing is probably junk and it won’t help. Add a little extra gas line and use a straight shut off.
so I'll have to find a new one because it isn't on the floor anywhere.
I have customers with gravel driveways, and when they bring me their snowblowers for service the things are always beat to hell and loose. What I recommend is lower the skids on the side a good 3/4" so it will lift the scraper off the ground a bit. This helps the machine not pick up so much gravel while still clearing somewhat close to the ground.
X2. Gotta get that scraper blade up off the rocks. I had to raise the scraper on my tractor mounted...it would grab a particular lifted block of concrete in my driveway and bring the tractor to a dead (and violent) stop!
Same here- -i struggled for years in Mid Wisconsin with a wheeled walk behind after my back was broken- steering the walk behind absolutely killed my back doing about 450' of driveway. It was absolute murder when i got to the road where the plow left frozen ridges. I was also a literal jerk if someone drove on my drive before i could blow it off because of the problems that caused. I ended up getting a JD x738 4WD with a 54' two stage blower and though I do not have a cab i do my two drives at home in 1/3 the time. It is so easy I do my 2-3 elderly neighbors drives also. It does not matter how much hard plow ridge the road crew left - my rig eats it up though when bad I may have to step on 4WD peddle and back off and hit it again. My drive would be impossible to use a truck mount plow due to the main drive being a U shape with the U bottom being at a 2 car garage--that makes the throw of 60' necessary to avoid doubling the depth.
