I picked up a used snow blower for cheap from my fiances neighbor who was in no way exacting when it came to repairs..... At some point in the past the mount for the shoot control arm broke and the gentleman "fixed it" by electrical taping a hook bolt to the arm and letting the arm hang loose in the loop. I found this to be completely unsatisfactory and I couldn't tighten a nut to the hook because it was bent.
So I went rummaging in the parts bins to see what I could find to sleeve the bolt so I could at least tighten a nut on the last few good threads. Thankfully earlier in the summer I had not thrown away what was left of my serpentine belt pulley.
The center of the pulley fit perfectly around the hook bolt but it was still too short. Knowing that this fit I found a 2nd spare pulley that I had and found that it was a perfect fit
The last step was to put a rubber "ring" into the hook so that the arm would spin around smoothly. Since then the arm has spun as it's supposed to without flopping around like a flag in the wind.
I've used other random nuts and washers on other projects as well but does anyone else have use Benz parts where they don't belong?
