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I made a small disc with a 1/16 hole. At low throttle it's manageable. At high throttle it's still too fast. The restrictors I ordered will be 1/32 so it should help. My intuition says that adding 2 restrictors instead of just 1 won't make a difference. Now it doesn't make a difference...

And weld it in place?

I'm.gonna receive the restrictors on dec 16. I'm being impatient and tempted to try something else in the meantime. I saw some people tapping the inside of a fitting, adding a bolt and then drilling a small hole. Would it be a bad idea to just fill the inside of a fitting with a big ugly weld...

I did something similar last year. With a car seat motor from princess auto. It worked great. But then it failed because my wiring got ruined by the salt+snow. So make sure you use good wiring, good connectors, and put some grease (vaseline?) On the connectors.

I'm curious about the advantage of using a hydro top-link for a snowblower. This is my 2nd year using the snow blower. I've had trouble blowing out gravel. Would playing with the angle help? If not, what would be the benefit?

Ok, I just found some 3/8 on amazon. 37$ (27usd) for 2, shipping included. I won't need extra fittings.

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That's 3/8.

Here's the semi-final project It's working. Let's hope it keeps on working all winter. And let's hope we'll actually have a winter.

I appreciate the offer but I'll pass. I just checked for a shipping estimate on usps and it woud be 30$ USD. It would be the same price to get it from amazon

The motor has 2 ORB10 female. My hoses are NPTm 1/4. Do you think they'd have something that wont requirr extra fittings?

Yup. No restrictors there. Only needle valves for 46$ each and they're unidirectional, so I need 2. I can get some on amazon for 22$ each. By the time I get the fittings to bring down from 1/2 to 1/4, it's getting more expensive than the valve mentioned by @DustyRusty from ebay. Cant find...

I'm having a hard time finding restrictors in canada. @DustyRusty , is that needle-valve bidirectional? I could use just one of them?

To my great surprise, it works pretty well with the sprocket. But the speed is too fast. I really need to be gentle with the valve. I'll try to add a 1/8 coupler on there to see what that gives me

I'm always going full throttle. It's a small tractor. I'll experiment and see if I need to restrict. I looked at that Parker needle valve. 70$ with shipping. I'm starting to dislike this hobby. The dealer is probably not making much money with their 900$ kit.

Do you have a link to those restrictors? My hoses are 1/4, it's hard to restrict more than that. I could use 1/8 fittings but I'd like to restrict even more. Then again... The original kit doesn't have anything like that

@TheOldHokie , wouldn't I be better off with the 5cu motor instead of a smaller one? If my calculations are right, with 2.2cu and 8.5GPM (my tractor), I get 892 RPM. With the gear it goes downnto 2.8 round per seconds. The 5cu motor with the same GPM would yield a rpm of 392 wich is much more...

You lost me with "3FV". I have a 2spool valve hooked up on my 3 hoses that the backhoe would use. The sproket works when I rotate manually. Didnt weld it on the hub yet. I know it probably wont work well. So I'm gonna look around for shops that sell gears.

I just got my chute back So now it has teeth all around. I bought a 2.2ci motor. The motor in the original kit (https://www.messicks.com/ku/125567?sectionId=273776&diagramId=927035) is 50cc (3ci?) So my motor is not overkill. The diagram for the kit doesn't show any stoppers and teeth all...

Very true. It is dangerous. But I'm not planning on ever shooting snow in my face :). I'm gonna stop rotating before it happens. FWIW, I'm wearing eye protection because you still get lots of snow in your face even when facing the opposite side. As for the electric motor, the reason I dont like...