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August 17, 1933 MLB player Lou Gehrig plays his record 1,308th consecutive game.

Haven’t had a Wheel Horse for about 28 years since I gave my 852 to a brother of a coworker to restore and never saw the tractor again. Just purchased a 520xi with 48” deck and single stage snow blower in good condition, 880 hours. Will pick it up Thursday as there is no rain in the forecast (Hoosiers will understand!). Semi retired Reliability Engineer so I over analyze everything. Looking forward to contributing and learning!

Well, I had a few parts hanging around cleaned up and primed so I thought I would brave the mosquitos and paint them using my paint spray gun. I have a little less blood but at least some parts got red.

@Vinylguy comes through again! Thanks, Terry!

At very least clean up the shaft and flywheel bore and apply Loctite bearing and sleeve retainer. give it a shot. You can't spoil a rotten egg!

Welcome! Yeah, that Engineer thing never leaves you, even after you retire.... This sums it up well I'm afraid...

I enjoy growing different kinds of peppers. With the variety of colors, it's kinda like growing colorful flowers that are actually useful. I usually start them from seed in the early part of March. This year I grew mostly sweet peppers. One of my most colorful varieties this year is Chocolate Cherry Candy Stripe Peppers. The flavor of these is very close to green peppers, maybe just a tad bit more bitter. The colors are awesome though. Next ones are called Patio Snacking Peppers. With their yellow, orange, & red colors they have a great appearance. Most of the peppers on these plants point upwards when they grow. We have been picking these off the plant and eating them as they are or maybe dipping them in some ranch dressing first. Soon I will be making Cowboy Candy with these, a sweet & spicy treat. Next up is my Cherry Pepper plants. I may have went over board when I planted these, the plants have been producing like crazy. Most of the peppers on these plants hang down when they grow. . I have been pickling some of these already. I add dill, garlic, & jalapeno. The finished product is awesome as a snack, even better in a Bloody Mary. I did say that I planted mostly sweet peppers, the next pepper is not sweet but it pairs well with sweet. My Habanero's look exceptionally angry this year. These will be used to make Habanero sauce ( Awesome on wings). Habanero Jelly (Sweet with some spice, great on anything that you would put jelly on. Also great on grilled pork). I always keep some Habanero's in the freezer to add to sweet meals like Coconut Curry Shrimp. Now I'm hungry!! Happy harvest everyone.

This weekend's progress. Got hitch built.

These are the only belts I use. About $30 at TSC and they can be returned for full refund.

Needed some bushes removed, have a 520 serviced and ready for sale, figured why not

Grew looking peppers! Here are some of mine for you to enjoy. This year I mainly focused on growing sweet peppers that we can freeze and eat throughout the year. My favorite sweet variety is Jimmy Nardellos. I also grew a few jalepenos for pickling.

Pumpkin patch is in overdrive this year. Sunflowers, not so much. Wabbits worked them over pretty good.

With the right wig you’d be a ringer for Janice Joplin. Can you sing?

Years ago there was a local Ford dealer called Plitt Ford. I was in the market for a new car for my wife so I went and spoke to a salesman. I asked him if I buy a Taurus from this dealership, does that mean my wife is going to have a Plitt Taurus? The guy just looked at me in disbelief and said he has been selling them for years and nobody ever asked him that? 😜😂

I'm having a problem with the photo angle as well. The crankshaft should be tapered and the tail of the key rides above and locates the magnet ring to time the ignition. That magnet ring may be damaged with the failure. It appears that the crank has grooves worn in it and that may not grab the flywheel well. Any debris and high spots on the crank and in the flywheel needs to be removed and then the parts can be lapped together with fine lapping compound. The surfaces need to be completely clean and then only a wipe of rust proofing applied. The flywheel bolt torque is 55 ft. lbs. with a drop of oil on the threads and under the bolt head. What really is needed is replacement of the crankshaft and flywheel, using these parts might very well cause a failure in the future.

I keep this one around as a reminder: Completely embedded until I split it.

Good rainy day to get some much needed crab trap maintenance done while the 312H watches. Then finished the crabs we caught last week.

A bit more progress, hubs done, wheel adapters done and it bolted up in place. Looking good 😍

I have been using this store brand rust paint from Home Hardware here in Canada. I just thin it using varsol until it is approximately the consistency of milk. I think around 10:1 give or take. I used the same brand primer in aerosol cans.

I had the same problem, but my output was running at around 20vdc. I solved the problem by cleaning the area of the aluminum heat sink of the regulator and where it mounted to the frame. I don't know why that worked better than a direct wire to battery ground. However, if neither grounding suggestions work, replace the entire regulator with a known-good one from a donor tractor.

If reliability is your thing you have come to the right place. Wheel Horses are very reliable and we are here to help if a problem comes up.

@SylvanLakeWH nice! My buddy Matt showed up the other night for some euchre wearing his, and I had one of mine on!

Mrs Sylvan helped me put the door back on the deer blind and clear out brush from the shooting alleys in preparation for early doe September 12-13... door blew off in a windstorm over the winter. @Pullstart I wore my best t-shirt... Ready for the season!!!

Since the flywheel has obviously been spun on the crankshaft you should also take a good look inside the flywheel bore.

The best paint I've found is Rust-oleum Satin Black, you can't tell it from the Factory finish. This tractor has all OEM paint but the front black I had to redo because of several large scratches.

Some old pics i found of the “hay maker”. I don’t normally mow wet grass, but when it rains for days and the forecast doesn’t look any different…

That flywheel had definitely spun before and probably because someone put a little woodruff key in there. I don't see that as being the end of that shaft though. Just put the proper key in it and it will hold. I'm no Onan expert and barely know them but most every other engine uses a taper fit lock instead of relying solely on a key to hold them in place for a reason. That's a straight shaft fit so the long key is definitely required

Washed the furnace filter, did a couple loads of laundry, mowed the lawn with Morgan, after putting new anti scalp rollers on, picked up a pile of sticks & acorns my wife had raked up, carried a bunch of stuff out to the new A Liner camper, and pumped the accumulated rain water out of the pedal boat and washed it. Oh, walked the dog and took a short swim in the lake. Waiting for foil dinners to cook now.

Here is the key you need:

I installed new rear anti scalp rollers on my 42" SD deck. No bushings needed in the new rollers, as they have a 1/2" bore. Rounded edges on the rollers too - should cut down on the axial load on the snap rings that retain them. No, I didn't have my phone with me so no pictures. Y'all are just going to have to believe me!

and now we know the rest of the story!

I just did this a few weeks ago on my 161 thinking it might help when I installed the FEL. I used a 60 grit flapper wheel on an angle grinder to take the top off the axle. Washers and bearing were only 1/8" and it was surprisingly easy to take that off.

Likely just a spare as I have a dedicated mowing 520H (with a 16 Onan on it), my 520HC is the snow plow tractor, and another 520H is set up for the two stage blower. I have 10 tractors now with most of them restored (my wife thinks I'm crazy).

Is the spark at the correct time?

Wait till you get to be my age... oh wait... Actually a friend's property. His blind (one of seven) that he graciously lets me use... I have no problem maintaining it and trimming for him... I'm very fortunate! But I have suggested indoor plumbing, electric, heat, small refrigerator, but for some reason those haven't materialized yet...

There may be something in the manuals

I put that type PTO on my 1055 but had to remove the handle due to interference with the angle adjustment for the snow plow.

Pulled up a couple more loads of firewood.

So for actual context... a friend of Trina's has invited us to a Hippie themed party in a few weeks. These glasses are a small part of my costume... or daily wear??!!??

Major changes coming in the engine compartment as well... over the next few months. Yesterday I started sorting out the needed wires from the future usage. Before - ish. ALL of these wires and vacuum lines will be removed. There's one yellow and one black wire that'll be moved to going across the back of the firewall so they are NOT laying across the engine. Same wires, different view. Also, this Air pump and all it's related hoses, pipes, sensors and wires are coming out. This evaporation canister and air cleaner inlet were already dysfunctional so they're being removed. This distributor is being changed to a GM HEI style. The coil in thebred circle will also be removed. The fuel pump is just outside the red circle. I'm not sure if I'll leave that or swap to an electric pump yet. It works OK but they have a high failure rate.

Happy Birthday Jim Stay a simple man! Trust me, when you have an hour and 10 to watch and listen to the whole thing you won't be disappointed. The guitar battle in "T for Texas" is epic and Billy Powell lights it up on the piano.

I pulled the trail camera and found I have a Piebald in the area. Plenty of deer showing up every night and day. Just a couple of the 300+ pictures on the camera. See the piebald at the lower right corner. No horns yet, but I'm guessing this may be a pretty old dominate buck.

We had our Special Kids help stock trout on Thursday. Sorry I forgot my camera so no pics. We only had 500 fish and I normally put 15-20 fish in a bucket to carry from the train to the creek. But these 15 kids were so excited to carry and dump these fish in the creek, I soon realized I had to stretch out the process. So I started putting 4-5 fish in each bucket. What a good feeling to see the smiles on these SPECIAL KIDS faces as they raced back to the train to get another bucket of fish. It was a special day.

Is that bamboo or Japanese knotweed? Either will go crazy invasive... My kid planted bamboo in our yard 10 years ago - was gonna make $$$ selling it. Yeh nope... it's totally contained by concrete. Grows like mad... it is very cool stuff... but make sure it's contained!!!