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Ran fine the last time it caught on fire....

Here's my list with Pics... SHOW

So I went to a tattoo convention and this is what I got what do ya all think! lol

Scored a good cab yesterday on Craig's List! good fabric, one cut in the plastic window, one missing bracket. but not bad for a buck and a half So it wasn't to bad out after work I decided to see how it fit on my 417A blower tractor. Didn't fit at all! The frame was welded together and noticed it was way to short. So I cut the up rights and added 3" to the rear and 5" to the front. Why would some one want it to be shorter? All I could come up with is it didn't fit in there shed. Oh well it is working for me the way it is tell spring when I make a new frame with a glass front window. It has made snow blowing so much nicer!! Can't believe I waited this long to do this. It's know enjoyable to use this tractor in the winter!!! I always hatted to blow snow as I new I was going to be a snow man when I was done, but know after giving it a test drive with the cab on, I was nice and dry, and actually much warmer too.

Make my day. Western MA.

The above for me comes after changing oils and servicing hydros. Also add in there a smiley face with a string trimmer and a smiley face on a Mahindra 4025 with a 6' Bush Hog.

Well I stopped in at the local TSC (only a 1/2 mile away) and found this pedal tractor on clearance. It looked nice, but I new Terry could make it look great! This will be given to my son on February 21st for his birthday. He is going to LOVE it! Here is what it looked like when I bought it....... And after with a little of Terry's magic....... I can't thank him enough for his willingness to help make this present even more special.

well its been a few days, I've been busy.... got a bunch of plated parts back........ so it was time to swap out some of the temporary stuff and start assembling parts. kept painting more black parts and also repainted the hood stand as i wasn't happy with it (to tell the truth here- the hood stand has been painted 4 times now since i started this build) i just wasn't happy with the shade of black and i also had an issue with some old powder that i had in storage for a few years. junk started appearing in some parts, so i ditched the box and started using our production supply at work. some of us guys that do a lot of personal work keep old inventory when its purged. sometimes it bites you using old stuff........ anyway, heres some more pics, its starting to go together slowly and I'm happy how its turning out so far..... steering all together... front tach-a-matic together with painted and plated parts. mid tach-a-matic together.... shifters painted and installed...... with new boot (part #3357) hood stand going on with replated hardware...... front axle and steering from above..... upper hoodstand on to check fit, needs to come off so upper steering shaft can be installed. i got it bolted on as it leaves less parts for me to kick around on the garage floor.....

You don't need to remove the arm to set the adjustment on the governor, just loosen it. Turn the shaft CCW and hold the arm CW and tighten it back up. Completely Remove the throttle cable, start the engine and test as suggested above. If governor pushes back then it should be good. Reconnect the throttle cable but leave the conduit clamp loose. Move throttle lever to full position, Start your engine. You need to lock down the conduit clamp with the engine running at 3600 RPM. Do the fine carb adjustments again to get it running properly, Not to Lean, Not to Rich. Readjust the conduit clamp again if needed so the engine runs at full 3600 RPM when the throttle lever is all the way in the full position. Do you have a Kohler manual?

Unfortunately, they don't care.

At least we & our children are now safe from any of those that were intending to make any future car bombs . Those that will play with fire will get their fingers burned

You'll get very little gain in horsepower by reboring those standard sizes. You'll gain a fraction of cubic capacity , but you'll lose a fraction of compression ratio. Where you will notice a horsepower increase is regaining a good seal in the bore with good rings and tight clearance on the piston. This actually isn't gaining horsepower, its reclaiming horsepower that went away as the engine wore out.

Ok, because you asked, This is a before picture. I was drinking a coke and decided to try the foil method. To my suprise, after about 4 minutes, I had this result: I have to spend some more time on them, but it was cool to see such quick results. I believe I am going to use my mothers mag wheel polish on them to finish them up.

Very cool Scott. My son turns 7 on the 17th of Feb. A few years ago (maybe 4 or 5) I bought him a similar toy tractor as the one you bought and had Terry send me a few custom decals too. It "was" green to start and said John something....lol but after a coat of IR red she looked real good.

I would not try to square it,you would have to take it apart and it's really dry and brittle now. When someone mentions honey do lists I always think of my deceased father in law.He was a machinist and could make anything,his wife always had a list a foot long,but he liked working in the garage .She would get mad and tell him about all the things that needed to be done in the house,you could see him shaking his head ok,ok.After she went back in he would just keep doing what he was doing.When he would go in for something she would say are you going to do this or that, he would shake his head yes and say as soon as im done with this or that. This went on for years,I don't think her list ever got any shorter.It's prob still stuck in her bible where she was praying on it the day she passed.

In VA - sounds like we are about to get pounded tomorrow. Picking up a spare belt for the snow thrower on the way to the house this evening.... :)

For a few days, I would go into the garage (two tractors, one mini-van, one leaf blower) and I would get a very slight wiff of gas. I was blaming it on the leaf blower because it normally is never kept in the garage, but I brought it up from the shed to blow some snow dustings off the steps. This past weekend I was in the garage again, and got that slight gas smell. I told myself to put the leaf blower back in the shed. I went to pick it up, and realized that the smell was coming from one of the tractors. I pulled off a side cover, and here was the fuel filter wet with gas, and a drop hanging from the fuel line. It turned out that the plastic filter had developed a stress crack. Lesson here, if you smell gas you need to investigate the source sooner than later. Once I took the side panel off the tractor the garage really started to stink. I put the tractor outside and went to get a new filter. I'm glad I found the leak while it was still very small, otherwise the outcome had the potential to be real bad.

I keep them all. I dont eat them tho. I give them to my grandparents. Hes getting to old to get them himself so I fill his freezer for him. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using Tapatalk

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bring it, it's so damn cold out, it's the only thing that gets me outside they are talking 8-12 for us on Thursday

Start at the fuel tank, drain it, remove the fitting and look at the filter screen that should be on the fitting, it's not uncommon for them to be either damaged or removed and the fitting full of trash, clean or replace the fitting and filter and then replace the fuel line from the tank to the engine. if the tank screen is missing you can install an inline fuel filter then check the fuel pump, if it's bad either a new mechanical or electric pump would be in order.

hey wheel-in nut more snow coming our way,

Van, it looks like if you swing up and hit Michigan south to north and then thru Canada to New York and back down to home you will get all the snow moving time you could possibly want. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it!

Thanks Steve. I thought it looked a little "watered down". Will be draining the trans tonight and hopefully filling with diesel tomorrow. I tried your suggest with holding one side will turning the other with no different result. Hoping that the diesel will break down the rust. Pictures to follow. Thanks Chris

I auctautly cam across this site by accident just looking for other wheel horses around and this forum came up and I have to say all my hours I have spent on this forum have been worth it Thank you all for making this section what it is James

Bob , i was thinking a far lot worse about those sort of people but this really isnt the right place to air my views on this matter . but you are dead right , they dont care .

Gonna put the tiller on the 195. Just so I'm doing something other than snow blowing. I'll wait till it gets into the 30's though Should be March the way it going

Your case does look rough, but does it leak around any of the places where there look to be cracks? Do a little cleaning at the rough places to determine if they are cracks or just a crappy mold job. the leak at the shifter is fine any other leaks, not so good. Keep us updated.

James, the name of the rust remover you asked me about is EVAPO-RUST. You can buy it at Advance Auto. Its Bio Degradeable and you can reuse it. It will take off all the rust on your wheel covers and leave them nice and shiney.

By then Roscoe, I'm sure lil' Porkchop will be able to teach me how to be a first class snow mover. And at the same time we can tag team all the cats in the neighborhood like a Tom and Jerry Cartoon (wheel horse with snow blower chasing cat smiley face)

For me there are two cars, the first being an absolutely mint 78 Z-28. I bought it from the original owner who never drove it in the winter. Just a real strong 350 with a 4 speed under the hood. My wife would drive this car just as often as I did. This picture was taken 22 yrs ago. I wound up trading this car for my dream car, a 69 SS Chevelle. In the beginning she had a 650 hp 383 on nitrous. After I had my fun with that my father in law and myself built a real nice big block for it. At that time I pulled the automatic and put back in the original M-22 4-speed. I drove this Chevelle all the time as long as it wasn't raining. My wife drove it quite a bit as well. I'd often hear her fire it up early in the morning so she could claim it for the day! I really miss both of them...You can't replace all the good memories I had in these two rides..

Lots of other Kohler engine will fit, you have a AS style block with the small oil pan, but by removing the engine cradle and blocks you can install a S style big oil pan block, and will be a direct fit with the right oil pan, you can also install a 12, 14 or 16 hp they all have the same basic design, and will interchange, one thing to look for is crank size WH on the bigger Kohlers use a 1 1/8" crank, but the most common is a 1" and you can use that by using a pulley and PTO sleeve from a 8 hp engine, you tractor is savable I'm sure there is a engine out there for you.

Whoa..slow down Ed... you gotta pace yourself buddy.

Definitely want to see that as it progresses......

Hydro and Craig, don't forget the photos of the episodes...

To do list Sand down and paint bodywork put on new stickers from meadowfield (mark) http://www.wheelhorseforum.com/user/3321-meadowfield/ as he is the owner of www.restorationdecals.co.uk Paint rocker cover Drain oil and replace filter with new K&N filter replace oil with sae-30 Fit newly arrived gauges on new aluminium dashboard (still ned to buy oil temp) For kill switch (because I like them) Drive and drive and drive If you want to see my pics either go to my euro thread (hi I'm James from England ). Or go to my profile http://www.wheelhorseforum.com/user/12410-jparkes43/

complete KT17 series II overhaul, change hydro oil and filter.

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or better still, run a new ground wire from the lamp house to the tractor frame and be through with erractic headlight issues.

Checked another one off the list. New valance boards and mini blinds for the Grandsons bedroom. About three more shut-in snow storms, and the "DO" list will be completed.

What Chas said.

C-125 hydro with blower and plow attachments also a small (free) toro snowblower with extricating start! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

To Do list: •put mower on 455 John Deere (necessary evil can't beat 60 in mower on 3 acres) •put mower on wheel horse D-160 (smaller jobs 48" deck) remove snow blade •take snow blower of work horse •restore work horse •finish onan for the work horse •get back in the grove of farming •change oil in all equipment and re grease periodically •finish restoration late fall That's about it besides mowing.

Looking through old photo albums this morning and found these. In 1982, I picked this up from a local farmer who just wanted it out of his shed. I got it free, mice and all. This might of been the first time my wife just shook her head when she saw what I drug home, something she's done several times since then. lol The cub was the first garden tractor that I had. Didn't need an engine hoist for this, after the engine was put together we just picked it up and put it in. The water pump drives off of the back of the generator. Regal Red If I remember correctly, the wheel track on this was about 4 feet wide. I remember sitting behind the steering wheel and sticking my hand out the passenger door window.

I came across these photos this morning and it reminded me that my brother and I have to get our father to complete this project he started . We had one of the 1054 Wheel Horse tractors with the drawbar hitch on it that he made (he made three of them for our 1054 tractors) with a chain attached to it. Dad than began heating up a garage door spring in the gas furnace he uses in the blacksmith shop. He then attached the spring to his heavy steel work bench outside and the 1054 tractor. Luckily for David and me the propane tanks ran out of propane before the garage spring got hot enough to do what dad said he did once before -extend the spring out 20 feet by the Wheel Horse pulling the hot steel garage spring out from the work bench! Something we still have to do!

I have both and I guess it depends what you want to do. My 18 Auto was designated an "Estate Tractor" when they came out in 1973. In 1970 when the Ponds decided to break into this market, they wanted more horsepower than the GT 14 which stood for Garden Tractor 14 Horsepower and was the big boy on the block back then, a true 3 point hitch with separate controls for the mid hitch and rear 3 point. The D is a big tractor, made to do big work, and do it very comfortably. I would say its the predecessor to todays sub compact utility tractors. Saying that….its hulking size and power makes it best suited to wide open spaces. Hence why the 60 inch deck was mounted out back and the snowblower and tiller was huge compared to the C series implements at a the time. My D will push snow like a freight train….much more snow and much farther than my C series every will. Im hoping to get a tiller for the back this spring as I'm putting in a decent size garden here at the farm and it would make life much easier for me…and hey who DOESNT want to buy a new attachment…lol. So for mowing around the house and flower beds I would say is better suited for a C series, nice open ares are covered better with a D and a 60 inch deck. I liked the idea of a 60 so much I put one UNDER my 18 auto so I get the best of both worlds..maneuverability of a belly mower around the house and beds, with the coverage of the 60 inch deck in the wide open spaces here.

Local councils dont care what their local people want & how they live as long as they get revenue they will just keep on building & building & building never mind the destruction that it causes , A lot of Hard working farmers in Somerset Have lost everything due to these floods , thousands of cattle , sheep have drowned along with peoples homes , just because they want to build more houses , make me really angry . And to add isult to injury our local council have just granted plannong permission to build 30.000 more houses on brown field land so that it can accomodate more people to build Hinkley point nuclear power station . Getting angry , i need to stop now

Sorry if my post went a little to the political side it was not intended to. I have friends who actually had kids in the school at the time of the shooting and I still feel the way I do. These rifles were around and available when I was a kid in the 70's and these types of incidents were almost un-heard of. The internet, media, economy, healthcare, illegal immigrations and a host of other issues have caused these problems. These are the real problems that the government should be concentrating on! Just my $.02

Duke, Do you know the username of the ebay seller you got your lights from... the original link in this thread is long since expired...

i set the bracket up for the C series tractors the holes are already drilled in the frame i looked a the suburban 400 and an RJ and this setup will not work without drilling holes here it is on a C141