Jon Spencer

I have almost the exact same problem, except that my discharge chute doesn't go past straight forward.  It makes it rather difficult to avoid shooting snow out on the street or on the neighbor's driveway or ....  My model is the ST224P (with "power steering") which makes no difference.  This seems to me to be a manufacturing problem.  My thrower was delivered December 12, 2015, 2 days before 8" of snow, so I find this very frustrating, almost as frustrating as not having any directions in the "manual" on how to adjust it or pretty much anything else. (But it does start up immediately and otherwise runs well.)