Fixing & Selling a Toro 2450 R-Tek Single Stage Snowblower

good morning it's the next day that's right i gotta get rid of some smalls this i think is gonna be super easy boy did i just jinx it uh i recall that this runs i got it from my friend mike see you guys next time on more dollars i think the only thing wrong with this is it's missing the cable that goes from this side to that side so he used these zip ties To pull the thing. That's it. Let's see if it runs. I'm pretty sure it runs, because last time I tried it, it ran. This has been sitting around for years. That hasn't been used. There's something wrong with the recoil starter, because it doesn't, the pawls don't grip onto the thing until, oh, now it is. It's got gas. Oh, don't make me have to do a carburetor clean on this. Starts and runs. There doesn't seem to be much of a difference between choke and run. Usually when it's on choke, that's when you start it in cold weather. Then when you place it to run, the revolutions are supposed to go faster, but it stays exactly the same. As a matter of fact, when you have it on run, it almost like surges up and down slowly. Holy ranananananananana ranananananana Which means that the carburetor is not completely clean. It's clean enough to run. But there's a lack of air intake to mix well with the fuel. So I think I'll take the carburetor off and clean it. I've been working on this bastard for quite a while. Clean the carburetor the best I can. This carburetor, I believe, is a non-OEM one. It's an aftermarket, which means that it doesn't have any adjustments for the pilot jet circuit. So there was evidence of some tar and stuff, but it really wasn't that dirty. Even when I took the main jet out, there was a little corrosion, but not really too bad. So I think something's stuck inside the circuits, which I can't get to because there are no external screws for adjusting the pilot jet circuit. So I think I'm gonna take it off. And it still surges when I start it and I messed with the idle as well as the governor spring and everything and it just will continuously surge. It either throttles way too high or it'll surge no matter what. So I'm going to take this carburetor off and actually throw it in my ultrasonic cleaner. I don't really use this very often so I'll just throw it out in there. It's very easy to remove that carburetor. Anyway, over the time that I don't use it, something evaporated. So I had like a deep purple in there or purple power, whatever it's called. And I just got this Zep from a friend of mine. I'm just going to fill up this Zep. It's supposed to be from concentrate. You're supposed to pour some water in there. We'll let the ultrasonic clean up a little bit. I'll put the carburetor in there for about an hour or so and see if that helps it. If not, I'm just going to leave it. As you can see I've gotten shipments of some snow removing equipment for reviews in the future. This one as well as this huge thing over here. You guys will probably see that one and this one pretty soon on Fridays. Listen, I'm contemplating going to two days a week now instead of three. Usually you see my videos on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. Well, I'm getting older and after I work on things these days I feel sore for a day. And people are saying to me, why do you kill yourself like that doing three videos a week when nobody else does it like that? And I'm like, well, I got a lot of stuff I got to fix. I got a lot of content. So I'm thinking about switching to just Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm still thinking about it. I still got a lot of content. So I don't know how I'm going to fit all that stuff in two days. Anyway, we'll see how that ultrasonic works and if it still surges after we do that. Got the carburetor and the ultrasonic. Let's see it just do its magic. Maybe it'll clean up the circuit or something. This is kind of interesting. So when I took the primer hose off the primer circuit, it's completely jam-packed with crap in it. Will the primer circuit make any difference in the running of it? Anyway, I cleaned it out, and now we're going to ultrasonic it anyway. So this carburetor should be really clean by the time we take it out. Give it like an hour. I'm doing another hour. Okay, two cycles. About an hour and a half. You can see the dirt floating. There it is. It may not look so clean to you but in reality it is much cleaner. I'm gonna use my air compressor and blow out the holes with compressed air just to get the degreaser out of there. There's the pin, the nut, and the bowl. Maybe now this will run well because the primer circuit, at least for the primer bulb, is nice and clear. It was jammed up big time. So this is obviously a little bit more work than I wanted to do for this snowblower but the way it was running maybe I'll get 50 bucks out of it but now if it's running really well maybe I'll get 200 out of it so it's a big difference. Still a very good snowblower though. These things were the workhorses back in the day. They're still decent working snowblowers so I'll put this back. So it's better, much better, but it still surges slowly now. It goes... It's instead of... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I've been adjusting the idle and the governor spring. The best it's going to be. I'm going to put everything back together again. That's it. That's all I'm doing with this one. So I cleaned this carburetor the best I can, even threw it in an ultrasonic cleaner for two hours. A lot of adjustment needed to be made with that governor spring that attaches to the throttle. You can bend the bar forward or back to control the RPMs. Then you can mess with the idle screw. I did every combination to get it to this, where it doesn't surge anymore. I don't think it's running optimally. Could be a lot of things. Where? This thing is probably 30 years old. Wear on the bore, a little bit of compression leak maybe, the rings might be stuck, whatever. But that's about all I want to put into this. I'll probably list this for like $150 and see what happens from that. I'll take as low as $50 bucks. Now, on to the next thing. I've got a ton to do today. Now we'll go work on something else. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. Remember to like, share, and subscribe so I can continue to make you getting ---- done videos. Have a great day. We'll see you guys next time on Mowers and Blowers. Pretty bad one too. Sergeant, you said it was, but now it feels like it's okay. I cleaned it. I cleaned the carburetor. I even put it in the ultrasonic cleaner. I'm going to tell you something about this. You know what? They're great machines. They really are. And also, this is the R-TAC, which is the same thing as the Snow Commander. Do you know what a Snow Commander is? No. That was the bigger one. Oh, really? Yeah, but I'll make this one for you. No. Thank you. Thank you.