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If I want a large rock all I need do is buy a plant in that size pot and ask my wife where it should be planted. Guaranteed there will be a rock about the size of that pot.

1960 550 and 61 551. First time these 2 have been run in awhile but both fired right up. I had forgotten how much easier these are to mount and dismount than the horses with running boards.

Some pics of the redo project. Pics of the chrome split front rims had help from @ebinmaine Upper dash console has not had replacement decal as of yet. On the list.

Most of what I have figured out about Sunstrands came from Dave. RIP my friend.

Spent the day at the Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine show. Always good to find an example of my favorite WH 1054. Not a good show for parts but if you're into steam it is a must go.

Both tractors could use a face lift on the leather seats and steering wheels from prior abuse. I do have a few leads on small local shops that I need to connect with too see if they would be interested in a Winter project. Any how I have been storing a very nice clean 1988 - 89 high back 520 original seat that is in mint condition and decided to install it on my recent second 420. Sure is comfortable and doesn't look too bad in my opinion.

Hello to all. New to the Wheel Horse world and very happy to have found this group. My specialty has always been carburation and electronics so I'm guessing this may be somewhat simpler on the vintage Wheel Horse tractors. With that said, I have enough experience to know we don't always know what we think we know. I'm aware of the sometimes daunting task in acquiring parts et al for vintage machines. It is my sincere hope you fine folks may offer suggestions and contacts to help this new guy along. Thanks to all of you in advance. Looking forward to this new adventure in the vintage Wheel Horse world.

It holds the belt guard for the two stage snowblower.

Dave helped me 2 years ago with a Wheel a Matic leak with emails and pics. RIP Dave

The whole eastern half of the state is that way Paul. My house in Northumberland had all sorts of rocks growing out of the ground, and this place, when they dug the footer for the garage, we hauled out a few loads of stone just like the ones you dug up.

This applies to so many things anymore, not just springs. I get people all the time with high-miles vehicles asking why I want to just put a whole transmission in instead of rebuilding it. on you +175K vehicle, by the time I'm done going through the transmission there is almost nothing that won't get replaced, so you buy all the same parts, pay me an extra 10 to 20 hours labor (depending on the model), at $170/hr, and at the end of it only the parts I replaced get a 12 month/12K mile warranty. Or you pay $300 more and the whole unit gets 3-year/unlimited miles warranty and you get the vehicle back a week sooner because I don't waste three days on measuring for selective shims that the parts manager won't keep in stock. Replacing a whole loaded strut costs less than disassembling the old one to replace just the shock or spring, and it's a lot safer for the tech. A lot of engines you can't even buy the parts to rebuild anymore because the misfire monitor software has gotten so sensitive that minor variations in the cylinder bore or head deck can make the computer believe there is a misfire when there isn't.

September 5, 1976 Jim Henson's "The Muppet Show" premieres on television with Mia Farrow as the guest star.

RIP Dave. Sorry to hear this. Dave was one of the most knowledgeable guys when it came to rebuilding Sundstrand transmissions. His posts will be missed.

I've mentioned elsewhere on the site that I've been messing around with a few chainsaws this year. This Echo CS490 is the only one I've bought new. I believe that was 2017. This year I decided to do a couple upgrades on it. A muffler modification or "mod" is basically when you remove the restrictions of the stock exhaust by either modifying the existing muffler or replacing it with an aftermarket option. On this particular saw there's a good addition in HP and torque if one removes the internal screen and restrictor pipe. I did that a couple months ago and was instantly impressed. As part of that process you have to richen the mixture. For that reason I removed the carb adjustment limiter cover caps. The next thing is to increase intake capacity. This kit is 3D printed by a company called A2D. (See the sticker.) It's a super simple completely bolt on kit. The biggest benefit is MUCH better air filtration. A side benefit is a little better breathing. Before. Original air filter. Original air filter base. Parts removed down to the carb. The original air filter and base on the right. Replacement base, filter, and top holder on the left. The new air filter is actually a stock replacement filter for a different Echo model. The kit maker recommends a thin layer of grease between the new base and carb, and on both sides of the new air filter. Note the large black surround piece. That stabilizes the filter base and raises the stock lid for space to install the new filter. It also allows a huge improvement in breathing capability by allowing air flow from the sides. There's a solid piece available for very cold weather operation. New filter in place. All cinched up. The kit even comes with a rub on decal to identify the modifications. I took the saw out to the side forest for a few minutes. Power level seems a tad higher. Definitely runs nice and smooth and has a very quick throttle response. I was unable to run it long because that saw needs a new bar. That's been ordered.

I didn't do any actual work on any of the tractors today, but the 1076 got to stretch it's legs today. I finally got time this morning to teach my daughter the controls, and then let her just run it around the yard to her heart's content. She came back to me for more fuel twice, and got yelled at for towing the neighbor girl on a skateboard once.

I thought that I would start a thread of this little tractor. Got a trailer hitch so I can pull it out of the container. Got some C-clips to secure the front wheels. Searching for a shift lever and now I'm working on the steering wheel. As it gets cooler, I'll get more done on this project. Gonna be a long term project. Thinking I'll flush the trans with diesel fuel and put Penetrol on the tractor for the patina. Looking at engine options. Liking the idea of a diesel or Predator just to get it going. More progress to come. Thanks for all the information and advice. The PC-7 will need more coats. Dave Dave

Still slowly getting stuff done on 416H. New voltage regulator. Was barely charging @12v & it dropped when my upgraded led lights were turned on. Now its charging properly. I can add some aux lights confidently now.

Every time you start an S/G tractor you polarize it (applying battery voltage to the A terminal polarizes the genny.)

Clean the mounting points of fresh paint, Try running a jumper from the regulator bracket to battery neg and see if it changes anything

Dave always had the answers, pictures and parts to keep us running. Rest easy Sir.

I spent an entire semester in college logic class with a professor who used the muppets in EVERY categorical syllogism... All pigs are pink Miss Piggy is pink Miss Piggy is a pig etc...

Dave was a true gentleman who always went the extra mile to help members solve their problems. He shared so much with us and truly will be missed. RIP Dave.

This has certainly been a bad year for tornados across the country. Two separate EF2's missed our house by about a half mile, one north and one south. We watched one on the phone come straight at us and were pretty much waiting for the impact when it shifted just to the north about a half mile west of us. The houses on both sides of us were hit. Fortunately Starke County is extremely rural and both spent most of the time in the woods and farm fields. Other areas weren't so lucky. NIPSCO had it's largest power outage in their history with something over a quarter million homes out. It took them over 2 weeks to get to the 90% restored point. The complaints ran wild but people just don't understand what it takes. I know the linemen from NIPSCO, I&M, REMC and others did a tremendous job getting things back up. While not as widespread, it reminded me of the 2004 Florida hurricanes with 3 in a row impacted us.

Looking Good! I study these pictures to see what mine is missing. Gotta love those little tractors. Thanks for posting those beauties. Dave

Makes me want some crab cake eggs Benedict!! And a tall Bloody Mary!

When I replaced the diff & axles in my C-120 last winter I did it in a rush to get back to plowing snow. I didn't get a good seal around the case and It's had a slow leak that's gotten worse little by little. The last month or so it picked up a rolling whine (from a bearing I'm guessing) I had a C-160 Auto trans I picked up for $50 to steal the hydro lift off of it. A few weeks ago, I decided to break it down and go through the transaxle proper. Tonight I made the swap. No initial leaks or weird noises from a few test laps in the back yard. Tomorrow, I'll give a full shakedown and see how well the hydro performs and what leaks develop. I'm guessing axle seals at a minimum.

I really debated on getting a genny. Haven't really needed one in 38 years. I went to get ice and was going back and forth about it. When I got the last of the ice the store had I said to my self, ok I'm going to try to get one figuring they were all gone. So after putting oil in it I realize I have no gas!!! I have 3 cans and when 2 get empty I go fill them. I have no idea how this happened so I went and filled 3 cans back at the place I got the ice. I'm filling the cans and I hear my phone go off in the car. I'm thinking my wife is texting me that the power was on. but no it was just hurricane activity on my weather app. I filled that genny to the top. It ran 4 hours. When I went to drain out the gas the fuel level was still in the filler neck!

I faired fairly well, no damage to any of the buildings. Did have a large branch on the roof of the barn, got that down this morning. Other than that had 2 Ash trees come down, one fell on my neighbor's property it was a property line tree. The other tree was in the back yard and I've been cutting that up and burning the small stuff. Just have the main trunk left, and that's about 40 feet long. Power went out about 8:30 Wednesday night, but I have a generator wired into my main panel, got power back 5:30 pm but went out again until 8:30. A pole went down when a huge pine tree fell across Rt 89 blocking the main highway and a walnut tree took out the lines that feed the neighbors and my house. Been so busy didn't get pictures of that. Like @squonk said the lightening was awesome non stop all across the sky, never seen anything like it. Picked up 3 1/2 inches of rain. That EF2 passed 2 miles south of me. As far as I know, thank God, no one was hurt. And hats off to NYSEG, the firemen, DOT, and all those that cleared roads and got the power back on. Seneca County was under a no unnecessary travel restriction and even after that was lifted some roads were still blocked.

Great morning on the Chesapeake Bay with the boys. The blue claws were cooperating. VID_20260903_091532229~2.mp4

@Pullstart @WHX??

Read the sunstrand manual again, figured out how it goes, was reading it with out my glasses .

Welcome to the Forum. My suggestion is to use the search bar (or google with “wheelhorseforum” in your search) to scan some old threads and posts in your areas of interest. That way, you’ll start to get a feel for the place and be able to join right in. (Being a more reticent fellow, I lurked for about eight months before I worked up the gumption to start replying and posting 😉).

Have a few maple trees I grew from seed in 1 gallon pots sitting in the garden decided to plant some. 35 minutes later I got one hole. Note the rock pile that came from the hole. I always get chuckle when I see your pictures of big gardens you rototilled no stones and the plow day pictures let alone a double bottom plow for a WH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Texas) My yard is a mixture of decomposed which is granite gravel/sand/clay. I'm lucky there are just a few granite bolding balls randomly in it. Some short distance under it is solid red granite. A few houses over - slightly down hill their back yard has a lot of exposed solid granite. This picture is the "backside of Granite Mountain where they have been quarrying granite (from the front side ) since the Texas Capitol was built in 1882. One you get a way from the granite the Texas Hill Country is thin soil with limestone . They have been hauling thousands of truck loads of roughly 3x3x3 chunks down to the coast for several Harbor breakwater projects at Galveston, Matagorda and Corpus Christi. Each semi- truck carries 3-4 chunks. There are several quarries in about a 20 mile area that each have a different shade of rock from light pink to dark red. Back in the 70's and again in the 2010's An oil drill bit manufacture set up a drill rig and tested various experimental drill bits. Rumor has it they went down over 10,000 feet of solid granite and never ran out of it.

I’ve come to learn that there are no “natural” parts of our 0.6 acre property. Most of it was the formal gardens for a large estate that had been heavily landscaped. At one point i tried to dig up a section of lawn for a rasberry patch and found what must have been a low spot in the original surface that had been filled in with stones and covered with 6” of soil. I still don’t know how deep the stones go!

I'm converting the oiling system in my M37's 230 engine to full-flow filtration. Here's what I've done so far: Drilled holes into the output passage from the pump for the IN and OUT ports, and tapped them for 1/4" NPT: Tapped the supply passage from the pump, straight thread 9/16-18. Used three taps, ending with a bottoming tap to form a nice 'shelf' to tighten the plug against: Installed the plug between the IN and OUT ports. It came out perfectly placed between the port threads, so it won't interfere with the flow at all. Secured with Loctite 592. Possible plumbing setup shown below (final setup to be decided after I determine where the remote oil filter will be mounted). I have plenty of clearance everywhere. The closest point will be about 3/8" from the edge of the valve compartment cover after all the fittings are tightened. These fittings are shown loose; they will drop down further when tightened, and I'll be shortening the taller stainless pipe by about 1/8 inch. I was originally going to use 1/4" NPT to AN-6 fittings in the threaded IN and OUT ports, but the NPT to AN-6 fittings I've seen had a smaller inside diameter than 1/4" NPT pipe, so I went with 1/4" stainless pipe going to AN-8 fittings instead of AN-6, so I should have a full 3/8" inside diameter all the way from the block to the filter and back. Here are the plumbing parts for the full-flow setup. I shopped around quite a bit and cobbled these together from multiple sources:

Where as I can did a 48 inch hole for a footing and not hit a single stone.

you can do like the rest of us Wheel Horse owners do most of us has a lot more than one.. Buy another Wheel Horse that fits the hitch and snow blade.

A main breaker interlock is economical way of feeding your panel. I had a generator input receptacle in the garage that I'd plug the genny into feeding that top right switch. Depending on the size of your genny you might need to watch the total load. In a power outage I wasn't worried about the A/C or the dryer so we could run everything else. I just installed a Generac whole house and we've had two outages since and I just grinned as the generator did its thing without me having to lift a finger. The portable is now at our daughters house and I've set her panel up the same way. BTW, if you download the Generac Field Pro App you can access all the settings and adjust what you want. With an inverter you're safe. Of just make sure you get a portable with less than 5% total harmonic distortion. If they don't specify what the THD is, assume it's too high. We had a Powerhouse (Northern Tool) that specified under 5% and we were fine. The manufacturers are getting better about that.

Mike just sent me a pic of Jumbo.

Not sorry Wayne you know the rules ...

Gotta like the Old Mil shirt!

Crazy as it sounds, I’m pretty set on custom headers, and a 6 into 1 collector, and make it sound more European. It’s a challenge, I guess.

According to the NWS official report from the Binghamton office, my house was approximately 1mile from the center track of the EF1 and approximately 4 miles from the EF2. Both tornadoes formed within a couple minutes apart

Glad you guys are doing well, now for the clean up. In 2004 while living in Florida we had a Hurricane with imbedded tornados come through. There was a twelve foot space between the house and my workshop so I parked my truck there for protection. A twister came through and stripped all the leaves from a large banyan tree in the back yard, nearly all of them were deposited into the bed of the truck. Mother nature cleaned up that portion of the debris for me. Unfortunately one neighbor's pool enclosure ended up in my back yard and the majority of the other neighbor's shingles were in my front yard. Neither of their home owners insurance companies would cover cleaning up my yard and since the debris wasn't from my house mine wouldn't pay for removal. The trusty 1055 with landscape rake took care of the shingles and a metal scrapper hauled off the pool enclosure.

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We moved the camper with my 1974 C160-8 Cinnamon Horse.

875 that was about 30 minutes from home