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Originally Posted by darkminion_17
Are you sure it is a qa42a? There are no plugs on my 2.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure its a QA42A. The name plate is worn beyond being legible so I cant say for sure. Its mounted on my wide frame 1450, and the thrower housing is more square than the round sided CW series throwers.
The QA snowthrower manual makes mention of either a sealed gear box or one with an oil level plug. It seems from my research that the gear box with the oil level plug is less common, as I only see photos of stamped steel cover plate gearboxes online. These are the grease filled sealed units I believe, vs my unit that is meant to have gear oil in it. My understanding was that stamped steel cover plates were on the sealed grease filled boxes, and the cast plates with drain plug were on the gear oil filled boxes. I have the latter, but my cover plate has 2 plugs, so I'm curious which fill port is the correct gear oil level.
Page 16 in the manual linked below.
http://ccmanuals.info/pdf/QA%2036A%2...s%20Manual.pdf
Here's some more photos of my snow thrower as well. Its a 4 paddle thrower, so I do believe its a qa42a.