Ok this is some real redneck macgyver shyt. It only woks with Budweiser and Coors, no I'm just kidding but seriously it was the first thing to come to mind all I had to do was look at my hand.

So I had bought a project with a hole in the crank case under the fly wheel (no oil or pressure) I cut a piece out of a Budlight can and used some JB weld. Light weight and solid as a flucking rock! I could even go back over it with more and fill in the space to make up the difference for the thickness of the case metal. Sand it down and with some paint you would never even know from the outside (I'm not trying to scam some one)

 

Good job on thinking of doing that.
You saved some big bucks with that idea.
I have repaired in the past several Tecumseh 7hp engines by using JB weld
and a piece of metal.
Holes were caused when that model
(that we refered to as "rod blowers" and not snowblowers)
would blow a connecting rod.
When ordering a replacement rod,
the new one was way more robust than the orriginal.
My boss at the time showed me that trick, worked like a charm.

 

I have repaired several motors the same way, I just happened to have a beer in my hand on this one. Which model may I ask blows rods? I work at a lawn equipment service shop and I have been doing tune ups on snow blowers all winter (this year was BRUTAL I tell you) my boss will get a kick out of it and will probably already know the model when I tell him (he goes from fixing jet engines as a career to snow blowers... I don't understand but he says hes happy)

 

They dont make the 7 hp in vertical anymore,
i suspect is was because they had a high tendancy
to chuck a rod . (not that they would admit to it )
As i mentioned the replacement rod was way more robust than
the orriginal. We showed both to the reps at an update course one year
and they were like cornered politicans when we showed both to them.
Took them a few moments to start talking.
That 7hp model was the most common, took very little abuse like old oil ,
people playing with govenor to get a little more speed out of engine etc.
I have seen a few others but 7 hp was very common a few years back.
Hole was alway behind starter.
Grind around hole, secure a small plate with some screws,
and apply JB weld.
We made alot of customers very happy.
I worked at that shop for over 15 years, saw alot of things come in that would make you laugh.
The owners wife liked to spend the money as fast as he/we could make it, so he has now since sold busness and kicked wife to the curb.
I started out as a car mechanic, and switched to small engines. I learned from one of the best, and he sent me to factory courses
and i loved working in the small engine shop.The mobile part of the business was in my name.
When you get very confident in the shop and need a challenge, go mobile LOL.

 

So just the Tecumseh 7hp vertical motors? I did not know they stopped making them I have worked on hand fulls this winter. My boss also goes to a yearly update class for MTD, TORO, SNAPPER, etc. Sounds liek your shop operated the same as ours, we will go to almost any extent to get the job done even if it's labor intensive my boss dosen't work to make money he works to keep himself moving after retirement he is sitting on enough to support him until he dies so we are able to goof off and take all day to heat and beat (whatever it takes labor will still be the same) so some days he ends up paying me more then he even made on the machine I think it is a active mind thing not about the money. I know what you mean by wacky things coming in, I have had my share of contraptions. My boss does mobile on call runs while I stay at the shop, did you know riding mowers fit in the back of a Dodge caravan with no seats??

 

Maybe its just a Canadian thing where i havent seen a Techumseh 7hp for several years now.
Most of the snowblowers coming to Canada now have Briggs over head valve engines on most name brand stuff.
They got a very good Winter design engine now.
I actually bought a new snowblower (Brute) with an 8hp Briggs 2 years ago,
to replace my very old and worn out 10hp Tecumseh one.
Anything close to Tecumseh i have seen are the Chineese knock off motors on the stuff Walmart has been selling the last 2 years up here.

 

There are not a lot of Chinese motors on machines down here even at Walmart. I have not seen a "new" L-head engine in quite a while. I have never serviced a Brute it must be a Canadian thing. We got an old Ariens 12/36 chassis with a 700R triple cylinder snowmobile engine on it at the shop, thing is dangerous chit.

 

Its actually "Simplicity".
I assume the Brute is a name given to machines that are shipped "North".
There is a guy that built a snowblower up in northeren Ontario that made a snowblower with a V8 engine.
I might have a pic some where.
At some point the site mods might lock this thread for getting a little off topic though LOL

 

I have seen V8 snow-blowers on youtube, there is a nice one in Canada on there. Aghh I can't see why they would bother it but just to be safe..