2008 Ariens 924DLE - Part 2

Starting my new Ariens for the very first time !!!

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Education

Tags:

• Ariens
• Snowblower
• 2008

[ericspda]

We never really had much luck with our 2007 Ariens 824... Went through two transmissions, a axle, two carbs, two chute gears, lots of bolts rattled loose and off, a few belts, and it would move on its own before we sold it. Was looking at a Honda, but they're over $3k, so we got another cheap Ariens. The Briggs motor is quite a bit smoother and quieter than the Tecumseh, but sounds a little odd under high loads, and still backfires when slowly reducing speed to idle. They're cheap, and it shows

[Coronakid67]

@ericspda  Sorry to hear about your bad luck with your machine - Our machine runs great and kills any snow that mother nature and the local city snowplow has handed us. My question though is if you had back luck with your first snowblower why would you buy another one of the same manufacturer ????

[SuperGozzy]

i like the deluxe & the platinum better than the proffesional if u notice on the auger gear box there's no support bracket on the proffesional id feel better with that support bracket there's a lot of torque right there & the others are a lot cheaper im getting a 30 platinum myself 342 cc's, traction control, heated hand grips,cant wait there saying its gonna be a bad winter this year

[Coronakid67]

@SuperGozzy

Hey man, once you get her make a vid !!! Congrats on your purchase !!!!

[k323r]

no electric start . lol thats crap

[Coronakid67]

I should be LOL'ing you - as you don't know your stuff man. DLE = deluxe and if you watch my first video and 38 seconds in you will see a little red button and at 2:14 of this video you will see the same red button - can u guess what thats for...hmmmm ELECTRIC START - now your educated

Cheers !!!!!!!!!!!

[goBUHuskies]

@SuperGozzy New for 2011 season, Ariens has switched over to a new "top fill" design cast iron gearbox on all their machines now, backing the gearbox with a 5 year warranty. I guess cast iron just proved to be so much better and durable. I bought a leftover 2010 machine this summer, brand new PRO 32 which has the 342cc motor, 32 wide cut x 23.5 high housing, 16" auger and 14" impeller with the larger 16 x 6.5 wheels. It's also got automatic traction control and heated grips too.

[SuperGozzy]

@goBUHuskies tell u what if mine ever breaks ill order a cast one and ill use braces on it to. i was going through 4 feet of snow this year didnt have a problem i put my own heated hand grip on it for 30 bucks

[goBUHuskies]

@SuperGozzy

Ariens uses the cast iron gear case on their PRO models (best models) and it is stronger and more relaible then the aluminum cased models. Because the aluminum is weaker, it requires the extra bracing whereas the cast iron doesn't. Don't you think Ariens engineering knows what they are doing? I have confidence that the cast iron gearbox is much better. I myself will be buying a 32PRO just as soon as they become available from the source I plan to buy from this summer (2011).

[ericspda]

@Coronakid67 The new models are quite a bit different than the one we owned, and looks to be improved. There really isn't much of a choice in the 1k range for snowblowers... The Ariens was the best specs for the price. They're all cheap built slabs of steel with crude engines. And 1/2 of the repairs from the old one were covered under warranty. They had a guy come pick it up, and drop it back off when its done. Nobody else would offer that for us. The old one ALWAYS did start first pull...

[boatbros23]

Nice! It is always rough when started. so just slowly reduce the choke to off after starting

[mikeydvd1]

good luck with yours, i just bought the new 2010 pro 28 with a 15.5 hps 305cc engine. cant wait to use it. runs awesome, very strong sounding engine. Ariens is a very well built machine.