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This is what I did,,,with what you have.....and,,,,,mine started with alot less.................I had no idea what a Wheel Horse was..... after 2 years of guessing together a look,,,,i found this sight,,,,,, after some bad guessing,,,,a few good suggestions i wound up with this.. 5 inches longer than my square hoods ...............i give you my,,,,..My 1961 Suburban

Here is what I did to repair the upper steering column bearing on 417A. Was not able to get the steering wheel off, so I cut the shaft, then welded it back together. This did prevent using the plastic cover to the upper column, so I just painted it black. Steering is good and tight now.

So I finally got the deck for my 401 put back together after more than a year of it sitting in my garage in pieces. This came as a box of parts along with the 401 I purchased last year. I blasted the deck, re-built the bearing carriers, found a pair of NOS blades on Evil Bay, found some replacement wheels at Harbor Freight, and used all stainless hardware. My kid says I need to lose the blue wheels. Kind of growing on me though. Other than touching up the paint on one of the shafts it's done. Leaving the side guards in their original clear coated patina. No plans to actually mow with it though.

It was a big hit with the trick-or-treaters last night!

For what ever reason the first thing I thought of was the old movie The dark Night of the Scare Crow, if anyone remembers it.... Nice job... There is a garden landscape place near me that I drive by ever day.. About a week ago as I was driving by a local garden nursery I noticed a few guys working on a tree on step ladders... On the second day as I was driving by I noticed they were still working on that tree, Now, on the third day when they were still at it I just thought to my self, man these guys just flat out suck in whatever they are trying to accomplish... I began to scratch my head a little... Yup you guessed it, a couple of dummies working on that tree but the REAL dummy was drivin a 70 orange Chevy pickup..

11-1-1967 Newman stars in Cool Hand Luke On this day in 1967, Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman as a tough, anti-authoritarian, poker-playing prisoner, debuts in theaters. Newman received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the jail-breaking Luke Jackson, whom the American Film Institute in 2003 named one of the top 50 greatest movie heroes in history. For his role as the chain-gang boss, Dragline, co-star George Jackson collected a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (Voyage of the Damned, The Amityville Horror, The Pope of Greenwich Village), Cool Hand Luke contained the now-famous lines: “What we have here is a failure to communicate” and “I don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus, right here on the dashboard of my car…” At the time of Cool Hand Luke’s debut, Paul Newman was already on the path to becoming one of Hollywood’s greatest leading men. The actor, who was born January 26, 1925, in Cleveland and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and later graduated from Kenyon College. He acted on Broadway in the early 1950s and made his big-screen debut in 1954’s The Silver Chalice. Newman received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as Brick Pollitt in 1958’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, based on the Tennessee Williams play and co-starring Elizabeth Taylor. Newman’s next two Best Actor Oscar nominations came for The Hustler (1961) and Hud (1963)

Beautiful night for trick-or-treating here. Happy Halloween!

Such a nice day today. I put the new tires on the front of the 702. To make it even out, I had a set of 6-12 ags on yellow rims, that I went ahead and put on the back. I hid the yellow rims by putting on wheel weights. The 416-8 and 551 also came out to enjoy the day. Busy day, as I also had to clean up the plow tractor and plow from yesterday's plow day.

Hi guys and girls. I am new here and new to the world of Wheelhorse. Love the site. Tons of information but I am still having some questions. I guess first I need to figure out what I have. I believe it to be a 60 or 61. It did not have original motor on it and I believe a different tranny. The frame was lengthened not sure if reason was motor or tranny or both. Here are some pics. Any and all help is appreciated.

sarge. I put on a genuine toro drive belt. 90 percent of the time I have bought the genuine belt. although I DO have snoblower spares from other manufacturers. I did not want to chance it on the main belt for a few dollar savings. BTW fellas, its running great.... I need a little help here. cant find it in the manual. but I noticed taking the deck off that the lift piston was connected to nothing, when I reached up and found out the attachment point. there is no attachment pin..bolt..clevis and pin.....I put a picture of the 2 attachment points. What exactly attaches them, I am guessing a pin and clevis????? Do any of you fellas know the correct part number? BIG THANKS also, dropping the trans fluid right now I have no idea what this guy has in there,,,,,some home made concoction. this blackhood is really growing on me. Glenn

I finally got a chance to check out our pics from Saturday. First I'll return the favor and post one of Josh and Ghostrider since he got some good ones of us. We need to get him a better hat Our first pass of the day was with the C-160. Even with my younger son's 45ish pounds in the seat it pulled the 10" well. He let me have a turn on the way back, although he didn't last long sitting on my lap. After getting a taste of driving by himself, riding with me kind of lost it's appeal. Things went pretty smoothly most of the day, but did get stuck in a traffic jam when a tractor ahead of us ran out of gas. It was OK because it gave us time to check out the white Case and the Panzer. The Cases, this white one and an orange one just like it, seemed be some of the best plowing tractors there. They just hooked up and plowed and didn't seem to struggle for traction when alot of the rest of us did. I thought the Panzer was the most unique tractor there. My favorite pass of the day was with my younger son on the B-100, and older son pulling Grandma and Grandpa on the hayrack so they could watch up-close. A proud moment having both boys doing a good job driving tractors on either side of me. The most nerve-wracking pass of the day... The parade lap. You can see Josh on the side taking video of what wasn't one of our finer moments of the day. It was some of the toughest ground we plowed. At first the tractor hooked up and my son gave it too much speed before I bumped up the throttle and he killed it. Then we couldn't get enough traction with just him in the seat so I had to ride with him. Even though our 10" plow came with the B100 when we got it, we just ran an 8" plow with it on Saturday. While it's furrows weren't as impressive as the 10" plows, it's much easier to use if you just want to have some fun. I didn't get any pictures, but I did make a round with the 854 after the parade lap. You get some funny looks on a little tractor like that among all the bigger plow tractors, but for the most part it kept up just fine in 2nd gear with the 8" plow. I did have to be careful which tractor I followed because some of the furrows were too deep for it. Like I said before, it was a great day for tractors, family and friends. Already looking forward to 2018!

Time for an update! I have gotten to put the tractor to work doing a little hauling after fitting an air cleaner to the engine and mounting a new fuel tank where it is supposed to be. Today I finished mounting a rear tire after sandblasting and painting the wheel. It is coming along bit by bit!

Whatchya talk'n 'bout Willis? @stevasaurus

Ok it's a 10410 7 Also the guy said it would turn over but not fire.... it it was missing the spark plug and the fuel line was shut off. Put a plug in it, opened the line. Fired right up. Very smooth sounding

That was Andre the Giant's suburban...a classic horse. It is not often, that I disagree with Walfish, but that trans looks like a regular 3 speed. It could be a 5007 (1961) or a 5025. It looks to me like the brake drum is on the mushroom gear in the pictures.

Does this tractor seat make my butt look big?? Nice looking 702.

I agree!!I Just something about those front AG's .

Well, sorry this happened to you. CLG253, you have been called to do this. The Universe needs another one of these. The 2.5 hp motor is so awesome

You should leave it running.

I pee every morning at 4:30. Problem is that I don't wake until 5. 😩 Mark

I just did a deal with A-Z Tractor, very nice to deal with and lots of good stuff at good prices.

REDRANGR...Thanks...I owe you one there. I did not know how to spell Uecker...but I was hoping somebody remembered that commercial. Thanks Mate... "Oh...I must be in the front row." One of the best lines ever. go CUBS.

I was going to tell you that it was the "Crawling Dead" but several others took my lead... Your question has been answered better than I was going to! Wish YouTube and the Internet had been around when I was young!

"Ya can't say isn't educational!

Looks like you and Walt have this plow angle lever issue resolved @T-Mo. Here is a pic of the mod I had to do to clear the foot control pedal on my 312H.

See if any of this helps you out Russ....I knew it was in here somewhere! .

Didn't we just go thru this... you musta been sleeping at the switch Russell There was just a good thread a while back about this ...I'll see if I can help you find it!

Clearly safe by a mile!!

Less chance of flipping over backwards too. No wheelies!

We call her Fat Betty....its the wide rear end ya know... CLG

Thanks for the recommendation. Lowell is nice guy! He's sending me the lift flag with non-Hydro spring bracket, the spring and a used lift pole. This way I can use the snow thrower on both the 520H and 312-8 if need be. Not sure if we'll enough snow for that this year but it's good to have all of the parts if I need them.

If it were me and I decided I wanted another tractor I'd try to determine where that oil is going and if it needed a rebuild. It would be much cheaper to put a good used Kohler on it then to rebuild that Onan. That would also only make sense if the Eaton 700 is still strong.. I had a 518 H that I bought before I knew they had the weaker hydro in them. The hydro worked good at the time but I knew it wouldn't hold up to my preferred style of pushing snow, which could probably be best described as hot n heavy... I like to go in hot and I like to push heavy snow. I'm not the type that enjoys plowing with the storm. I enjoy it most when the tractor has to really work so I typically wait until the storm is over... At the end of the day do what ever makes the most sense for you..

Those AG's make that tractor look like its all work and no play. Nice collection T-Mo

Welcome, looks like a 61 suburban front frame and hood and a unidrive trans off of another early to mid sixties wheel horse.

Needs a half a gallon of ketchup spread around.

16 6.50 8 measured at the middle of the bead.

Three stages of old age.1 you forget to zip up after you pee.2 you forget unzip before you pee.3 you don't worry about the zipper at all. JAinVA

This was on Yahoo as one of those PITA sponsored things to advertise the crap outta you but I cut all the BS out and grabbed the pics to share them. Definitely some interesting concepts! Think my favorite is the "crab tractor". As it turns out, our own @horsefeathers made it on the list and his tractor was in there on a national ad. Here's the link if you want to read about each tractor. http://mentertained.com/31-odd-tractors-you-dont-see-everyday/?version=X2&utm_source=X1Yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo odd tractor pv&utm_medium=odd tractor pv

Thank you all for the warm welcome and knowledge. I guess I just need to make some decisions on what I want to do and get started. I am sure I will picking your brains. I do also have a/original trans that the frame bolts directly to but havent got pics yet. Not sure if its good I am guessing not.

I took a model 79263 snow thrower made for tractor with a vertical shaft engine and converted it to operate when attached a tractor equipped with a horizontal shaft engine. There are 2 or 3 threads I posted while working through this. And since I've learned since I should have just kept updating my first post would have kept all my walk through in one spot for me to reference. But hey I only joined in July And have learned so much in such a short time couldn't see not supporting and I have virtually no limit when posting pictures.

Lowell is definitely good people he sold me the belt tensioner for my snow thrower conversion project and a lift flag. The pole he sold you may even be from same thrower he sold me the tensioner off of.

The 37" width of cut deck has 2 blades. The rest have 3 blades. 1985 05-36XR04 05-37MS05 05-42SB04 05-42XR05 1986 05-36XR05 05-37MS06 05-42SB05 05-42XR06 1987 - 1989 05-36RL01 05-37SL01 Garry

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Your going to make us wait till spring to see them on the tractor????????? Randy

Ed, read this: As you can see, it's missing the angle lever and Walt has been giving me dimensions to have one made.

I've never had any problems with the Wheel Horse/Toro belts.

I figured out a way to really get all the old oil out. First, I elevate the front really high by using a hoist fastened to a eye bolt on the ceiling of the shop. So high that the tractor is hitting the hitch on the ground. Now take an old gasoline can that has a nipple style vent and put a little clear vinyl hose on the vent and suck out the remainder by inserting the hose through the transmission hole and connecting a shop vac to the spout on the gas can. About 4 ounces more of old grunge will come out that is the dirtiest part of the oil and may even contain separated water. Let the tractor back down and add some kerosene or Diesel to the transmission and let it set for an hour or so. Elevate the tractor and repeat the draining and vacuum extraction process. Even more old oil containing solid pieces of grit will empty into the old gas container. I was amazed at how much more junk came out using the vacuum. The clear vinyl hose is really satisfying to use as the ugly fluid is clearly visible. On edit: You might want to remove that battery if you crank that front end really high.....

If this is confession.....I peed my pants when i was 9.............. anonymous ..............

Thanks guys. It's a lot of fun doing these restos. I get such a great feeling of accomplishment when they are done. I really enjoy showing them to people who are interested and can appreciate the time and work that goes into making them great again. When this one is done I'm going to sit in my driveway and stare at for awhile while sipping on a few beers. Hopefully with a good friend.