Snow Blower Restoration

This Snapper Snow Blower is close to 40 years old and had sentimental value to my buddy as it was his deceased fathers. It no longer ran and I said I would take a look at it. As a surprised once I had it running I decided to restore it.

New Carburetor bought off Amazon for $15

Degreaser

Red Rustoleum Paint

White Rustoleum Paint

Grease

Wire Brush

Epoxy

Wrenches

Screwdrivers

Remove the old Carburetor and replace with new Carb and gaskets. Bought a new one from Amazon for $15.00. Once the new carb was one and I filled with a little gas and it ran, then it was on to step 2.

The snow blower has seen better days as far as paint goes. The stickers are actually in pretty good shape. I tried to find new ones, they don't exist! So I taped over them and used a razor to cut along the edges.

The wheels needed to be sanded down and painted. The chute had a crack so i used 2 part epoxy to fix that. I used a wire brush and degreaser to clean all the parts and the motor so I would have good paint adhesion.

I used Newspaper to cover parts that needed to be protected from different paint colors.

All the parts that could come off I took off and painted separately.

I painted the white first, then covered the motor to paint all the red.

I put it all back together, greased all the fittings, filled the tires and tested it one more time to make sure it ran and operated well.

This restoration cost $15.00 for the carburetor, $14.00 for the paint and a few dollars for the epoxy. So for under $35 and some elbow grease this snow blower is like new.