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This is from the experience I went through the last couple days. It pertains to a B 100 that I picked up a few weeks ago. It’s been quite the experience with the wiring on this tractor. I was trying to fix someone else’s mistakes. Yesterday was I guess you called a head banger or scratcher. Be cause everything I did did not work. So today I guess you could call it a premonition early in the morning. I decided to use a jumper wire form the solenoid to the wire on the starter from the Solenoid.. Bingo it worked. So Squonk AKA Mike was interested how this came about. So I told him. He said the wire was bad. I thought how a 6ga wire could be bad with no bare spots and the contacts were clean and shiny. So as I changed the wire witch is a 4ga brand new. Bingo I have contact. I have had a few of this model in the past. So I guess you could say don’t assume everything is good just by looks. I am not good with electrical never took the time to learn it.. if you read this and liked it say something or give me a thumbs up. Enjoy all your projects. This is something apparently I didn’t follow when I was doing it.

The cables in the pics looked new but suspect to my eyes. We had an electrical clinic at the Napa when I was working there. Had a nice set up from the Rayloc rep. A battery with nothing in it but 6 D cell flashlight batteries, A 4 ga. cable with only 1 strand connected inside of it. Key switch ,solenoid and starter all on a big board. Pretty cool. We invited all the shops to attend. We had a 12 volt test light , multimeter and jumper wires. One by one we had guys trying to diagnose various bugs we put in a circuit. And still I had to go to garages and find problems that stumped these guys including 2 the very next day! Moral of the story: A 12 volt test light only tells you that electricity is present. Most of them have a 6 or 9 V bulb in it so it will glow with 3 volts. Get a multimeter and learn how to use it. Electrical circuits on a WH are like a road map. Start at the battery and follow the positive side until there is a stopping point like a solenoid. Watch the video's I posted about grounds and solenoids. A multimeter would have found this problem in a minute.

Drove the K- 20 locally for years while I worked on the rest of the truck. Got a lot of comments without the bed. POR on the frame etc. Have fun with it while working on it. GOOD LUCK with it EB.

Are any of you guys going to be able to go see this as it comes through the East for the 1st time?? I've seen it a couple times when it came through Geneva and West Chicago, Ill a couple years ago. It is worth it if you get the chance !! This is worth seeing ...there is only 1. Go on You Tube and check out it going through the Feather River in the Rockies. Out standing for sure!! A schedule...

Yupper dupper. On July 16 it's stopping in Knox. The crossing is 6 miles away. I plan on checking it out.

The hoist under my 91 was made of snow plow parts

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I'll see you all at the show in a couple weeks!!

A few years ago I just missed seeing the Big Boy when we took the Arkansas to Missouri train tour. (It's a one day outing from Missouri to Arkansas, spent a few hours in Springdale, Arkansas then ride back to Missouri.) The Big Boy was scheduled to arrive shortly after we departed. Some folks on our train stayed overnight in Springdale and returned to Missouri the following day. We have also rode the Durango to Silverton steam train in Colorado. Beautiful ride. Last year we rode the Arcade and Attica Railroad in Arcade, New York. Steam (that they just spent a potfull of money on rebuilding the engine) and a nice little ride. I believe the train was owned buy the local townspeople. Super friendly folks. We rode a train when we took a cruise to Alaska. It was a pleasant ride (and a fellow has to find a way to spend his time on daily tourist town stops). A trestle bridge (first photo) in my layout (middle photo) in the basement was inspired by that ride. One of the most memorable rides was in Thailand. We toured the "Bridge over the River Kwai." Wife and I hired a private tour guide and driver. We visited the museum and cemetery, walked across the bridge, ate lunch on a floating open air restaurant on the river then rode a train one-way whereas our driver picked us up. The photo is black and white because my camera took all the pictures on this trip with bluish color. This is part of the railroad along the river. The 4014 will be passing within 2 hour's drive--maybe I can at least watch it pass by. I watched a video of it being rebuilt and it was very interesting.

This one is at a new location this year. Supposed to be bigger show grounds and looking on Google Maps it does appear to be have nice large show grounds The last place was tight! Tough to get in with a truck/trailer and find a spot. The usual suspects will be there: @Docwheelhorse, @wallfish @Retired Wrencher

Some excellent comments above. Thank you everyone. I'm posting a link here mostly for my own reference but obviously you're welcome to peruse it. It's a design for a bed made for a very heavy truck camper. https://www.truckcamperadventure.com/truck-mod-diy-wood-flatbed-deck-for-truck-campers/

Thanks Eric. Never thought of that. Like I said this was never my strong point.

Or how about part of it? I'll explain the whole thing when I see you down there. But yes that's the plan. Or maybe give it to WHCC to raffle off but only 16 yo and under can buy a ticket. @Pullstart has a rear fender for it plus I'm sure he's up for some tinkering on it too

If that what you’re doing, no problem, I’ll donate it to cause. No charge.

Saw it today. Incredible to see it up close.

I was hoping to see it as it ran between Harrisburg (Enola yard) and Scranton (I think), but after reviewing the route there are pretty much no good places where I won't have to camp out for days ahead of time to get a good view.

Supposedly going through the Horseshoe Curve. But I heard the live feed camera is going to be turned off. Haven't gotten confirmation on that yet.

This is how I repaired my tank with a similar issue, still not leaking basically 2 years later.

Sometimes an unlikely solution presents itself…we pulled JackRabbit out of long storage, checked oil, plugs, filters, and put in fresh fuel…it started and ran really well. We mounted a 48” SD deck and have cut the lawn a couple of times with no issues🙃😅😎 other than the engine isn’t charging. I remembered that after I got it running. There is no AC power to the regulator so I’m guessing either the stator is failing or the wires coming off it are. So, I find myself saying to Caleb, hang on to this one too OR… as of right now @Edward Teach (our youngest) wants to buy it from Caleb and restore it…I say “Why not?” Very nice cutting machine and I love the faster ground speed…

The 418-C was built for commercial users like lawn services and such. It has heavier front wheel bearings, longer spindles, no idiot lights and a bight higher speed. Mine is used for snow plowing and leaf blowing. I have mowed with it but that twin cylinder Kohler uses about 1/3 more gas than the 310-8.

Got my wheels back! He aired them up to 19 PSI but I dropped to 12 PSI as per the service manual. Here are the tubes he used. Tires are 15x6-6 and 22x7.5-12

Here is a repair I did to my plastic gas tank on my B100 so this is mainly for the gas tanks in the 73-77 B and C series I believe those are the ones with the gas tank over the battery and the bushing and shutoff on the bottom of the tank. (Edit to add) BEFORE working on the tank throughly wash out the tank, I used soap and water and filled the tank to overflowing several times to make sure any and all fumes are pushed out of the tank. You can kinda of see the crack right on the edge of the hole where the light is. The first thing I did was use a utility knife and cut a V on the bottom of the tank where the crack is. Then you will need a black ziptie and what I used was a soldering iron. If you have a plastic welding iron that might work too if it has a fine enough tip. What I did first before even adding plastic was get the tip of the iron in the bottom of the V to melt together the crack Then you can start adding plastic using the black ziptie keep the iron in the crack being careful but keeping all the plastic melted so it can properly meld together. Eventually you will get something like this what I did have to do is roll the round part of the iron in the hole to smooth it out. Be very careful doing this not to enlarge the hole. I used some petroleum jelly reinstalling the bushing and have had no leaks after several days. You will need to check it for several days to make sure it's not leaking as well.