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I had a Kohler #30 carb for my own C160-8 Cinnamon Horse on the bench today. This one's been soaking in the lacquer thinner for several weeks along with quite a few sessions in the ultrasonic cleaner. Here's a couple "before" pics. I use a combination of the above soak & ultrasonic cleaner intermixed with wire brushing by hand and machine. VERY.... CAREFUL.... USAGE.... of the machine spun brush. I also use a small pick and/or screwdriver and/or whatever's to hand for cleaning the grit and muck from orifices and corners. After the greatest part of the grime is gone I use a series of drills in the Dremel tool to bore a 1/8" hole in the welch plug on the side. Pop that out with whatever levering tool is close and works. More cleaning. More scraping. More brushing. Repeat. Repeat. Intermix as needed. Be sure to get in the area behind the welch plug and clean carefully. Also clean the tiny holes the feed fuel to the main bore. I use a tiny drill bit. Carefully. All the small pieces also need de-grubbing and anti tarnish treatment. I use a 3-48 tap to clean the threads of all 4 holes from the throttle and choke shafts. Once the body is clean.. I start reassembly. Here's the complete exploded parts assortment sans the 3/8" welch plug I forgot to set there. Welch plug hole shown empty. Plug setting in but not driven/flattened. Post flatten. I use the bit that's on the carb to indent the plug. Anything roundish and 1/4" or so diameter can be used. The larger bar in my hand is the "hammer/ hammah". Procedure for driving in the upper throttle shaft bore repair washer is similar. One of two in place. Both set in. Here's a closeup. You can see the two washers stacked and stuffed. Now I move to installing the throttle and choke shafts and blades. I use Blue Loctite. Brand name only. Four new screws. These are usually 3-48. Just the tiniest little dab of Loctite on each screw. Get the screws in place loosely then verify proper movement and placement of the blades. Each blade will usually need a little coaxing to set just right. Once that's satisfactory, tighten the screws. Now I install the 3 exterior screws. 1. Idle speed control. Small silver colored one. I always start high and adjust the RPM down later. 2. Upper RPM mixture. Coincidentally that's also the uppermost positioned screw. 3. Low RPM or idle air mixture screw. Be sure to set the above screws to the factory settings before starting the engine. The fuel inlet seat is threaded in next. I have a special nut driver I've modified by grinding down the circumference so it fits in the limited space. Drop the needle in and slide the float pin through. Check the adjustment. I set floats for these carbs about parallel with the body. Install the bowl gasket, then the fuel baffle. Center the bowl. Install the gasket and bowl retaining nut. Snug that up well but use caution to not overtighten particularly on original aluminum bowls. I most often replace the bowl with a Briggs and Stratton steel bowl. The older aluminum bowls are almost always crushed and deformed around the bolt hole. A few more pictures as completed.

Last night I was plowing snow with my C-145. 25 degrees out, was dressed warm, had my heated gloves on and a smile on my face. Life was pretty good !! Then all of a sudden the engine stalled just like I had turned off the key. . Pushed the old girl in the shop for some diagnostics. Found that I had no spark. Multi meter showed that I was getting "+" power to the coil but no "-". Down side - points were not making a good contact. Up side - No need to buy a new solid state coil, or a new CDI box. Nor did I have to wait for said parts to arrive or wait till morning to take a drive to get new parts. Instead a quick cleaning of the points with some 1200 grit sand paper and I was back in business. $0 repair and only 15min down time.

First and foremost I have to thank @Handy Don and @Bill D And say it was great to see Don & meet Bill. The BBT and I took a nice road trip this weekend. Saturday was spent mostly on the road with two primary stops. One was to pick up all the stuff. The other was to visit my mom and help her out with some chores. Here's a few pics of what we got...

Old technology is the best if you have a person with an old soul around to make it work.

Today in Lower Bavaria

A couple of weeks ago I mounted up my newly acquired NOS @stevebo 48” plow on my C-175 ( For display purposes only!) I was ready to put it away for the winter, but decided I should take a few pictures first. My next little project is to switch over the other plow from the 418-8 to the 418-C. I figured I’d give plowing a try with the extra speed of the C. I plowed a little bit last year with the 8-speed but found it and the electric lift a bit slow for my liking. Here’s a few pics for you folks!

Possibly this is a plethora of pictures...

You can set your watch by it. Put the snow plow or blower on then wait. And wait. and wait some more. Finally get some snow. Not a lot but like 3-4 inches. So I have to take my coonhound Bella for her walk that she demands every morning. I decide by the amount of snow on the ground I will plow the driveway when we get back. Besides it's a good idea to clean the carbunkles out of the tractor once in a while. The excitement builds as I crank over the K321 on the 953. It has sat since late Oct. when I put the plow on. It put puts to life! let it warm up. Put my plowing coat on and merrily head out to make a few passes. Mostly for where my wife parks and the sidewalk so she doesn't have to plod thru the snow and to keep the potential for ice build up down. Make a few passes and all of a sudden I notice the plow won't go down all the way. In fact if I hold the lever in the down position, it starts to go up! I'm like What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a goin on here? Did one of those @WHX?? or @elcamino/wheelhorse put a hex on this tractor? So back into the shop I go. The left arm is all the way down but the chain is tight??? One in a million shot. Didn't get a pic but the pin on the hydraulic cylinder can move in and out and it moved enough to catch a link midway on the chain. The chain got wedged on the pin pretty good. Took a lot of prying to get it off. I added a spacer to the opposite side of the pin to keep it from getting close to that chain. The worst that ever happened was when I was snow blowing with Marvin the C145 I had. The T bar for the mower deck was still on and the nut for the bolt that held the bar to the lift chain backed off. I was going along and that bar caught a side walk crack and lifted the whole rear of the tractor off the ground! Had to drag the jack thru the snow to get that one remedied!

There has been a hole in my heart and life since my beloved pooch Bryant died suddenly last Sept. My wife talked me into adopting another dog to keep our coonhound Bella company. So last week we went to the shelter and met a dog with the same pink nose that Bryant had. Faith is about a year old and has a lot to learn but she's off to a good start already.

Like I said @Rp.wh is most times useless but does has a knack for finding tractors... I recently acquired three of them ... all 702s. They been POed and molested heavy but most nothing that can't be reversed with a little elbow grease and a bucket of paint and a brush. A sneak preview of all three. Why do they always look better in pictures?!?!? 702 # 1 Yeah she seen better times but mostly there. Not exactly a roller ... frozen water and transmissions don't play together well but a hour in the shop and was draining. Water and oil were still separated so that's good thing. Gotta like the steering wheel! Nice ... A for effort I guess From the we've see it all files ... @Ed Kennell you still got your front tiller ? I think this guy was setting up for it. Joking aside guy has gotta wonder what he may have been trying to turn in 1968 . Is it my eyes or the pic but does that block look blue?? Didn't notice 'till now but find out tomorrow for sure. A sno blower perhaps??? Actually this is some kind of pull switch just hanging out! The good news ... The shoes look really good fronts look to be orginal Generals widely used in the day and hard to find now. Rears don't appear to be cracked or bulging out anywhere. They'll get aired up abit tomorrow to see. The rubber should be able to be saved. Like any good show and to keep you guys in suspense ... to be continued ... Stay tuned for for tomorrow's episode featuring 702 # 2 !

Today would have been @JimD,s 75th birthday, he was taken from us much too soon. Jim served as a moderator on Red Square and always shared his sense of humor. for several years Jim would find unusual photos and post them with the title "Caption this" to bring out the humorous side of others. You are missed Jim.

1977 C-120 Bought from the original owner. Didn't look like this when I got it. Cleaned it up a bit. Nice solid tractor.

I'm never one to believe the TV weather people since they are wrong 90% of the time, but it never hurts to use the old Boy Scout motto and "be prepared". With the first major snow in two years predicted for my area, I have the 416-H with snow plow parked in front of the garage door, and the walk-behind snow blower along side. I topped off the fuel tanks, checked the hydro fluid level, and put the battery maintainer on. Went to the gas station and filled my cans with E-free gas. Since I don't have a permanent back-up generator, I pulled out the portable 5500/8500 watt generator, made sure it would start on the first pull, gassed it up and did an oil change. Hook-up wire is ready to plug into my whole house plug that I wired two years ago and never used yet. Both 4-wheel drive vehicles are gassed and ready. The 275 gallon heating oil tank is a little under 1/2 full, and so is the 250 gallon propane tank. Two cases of toilet paper are on the shelf, an extra gallon of milk is in the fridge. Plenty of coffee and food is in the pantry. I've done everything that I know to keep the snow away, but just in case... I think I'm ready.

We got about 5" of pretty dense snow from this mornings storm. So I decided to video the 312H with foot pedal motion control. The video is 7 minutes long, so get comfortable. It took 7 minutes to clear one of the 5 paved driveways about an hour total for all fiveand another 30 minutes to clear the stone road. You can see the speed and ease of raising and lowering the plow and constant changing of direction. This would probably take an hour with a gear drive and manual lift. The stone road cleared in 30 minutes. Sorry, 5" snow wasn't enough to justify firing up the Ber Vac Deuce.

Picked up a 520-8 today, no motor, needs a lot of love. But should be a fun project. Not a fan of the Onan so it won’t be getting one of those. I do have a nice running Mag 10 and some fat AG’s that will eventually end up on it. When the weather is more favorable here I’ll get into it and start a thread in the projects section. But for now it can wait.

Received my fender pan back from the body shop this week. This pan had a bit of a journey from the Big Show in PA to CT and then to Maine. Credit goes to @Sparky for the selection, who knows how many he picked through, but this pan was in very nice condition. I think it's been here for 3 years and finally got to have it stripped and painted. It was painted with single stage and clear coated. The one that is on the 420 now will be transferred to the 418-A to give that one a bit of an upgrade. Thanks again Mike

My 1971 Bronco, and my FILs 1972 Charger.

Finally got some seat time on Ole' Rusty. Note the "down pressure" on the blade.

I started my first week in 2025 by falling into a N.O.S brand new 315-8 60th anniversary. (Last year made ) Today picking up parts to another local dealer 15 minutes from work I walk in for parts and come out with nos Xi series 36” Tiller - 48” deck - grader —300/400/500 grader . Pure luck right in my own backyard. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the XI stuff as I’m not a Xi collector ….

This toy needs its own post. I know there is a post in non tractor related about remembering our #1 favorite cars from our past. When I was 17, I traded my 74' Ford station wagon in on a 1974 Jeep J-10 1/2 ton pickup. It was green with a white Leer aluminum topper with big AMC logos on the sides of the topper. I was 17 so naturally, that was the dumbest thing any human could have put on a truck. So it was gone. We painted over the logos and put it on my uncles 68 chevy truck( he was old, so obviously he needed a topper). Now, I thought My Jeep was cool. I put white spoke wheels on with 31" tires. I then cut 2 holes in the front of the box for the exhaust stacks behind the cab. The truck was as plain as you could get. 360 AMC engine. 4spd. Tranny. AM radio and a sliding rear window. Vinyl seat, vinyl floor mat. NO power steering or brakes. Brakes were drum type front and rear. It was a bare bones 1/2 ton work truck. We used it on the farm like a tractor. I missed that truck after it rotted away. Fast forward to now. My Brother sent me a text message to in his words. "Walk down memory lane". He is 3 1/2 hours north of me. And, right down the road from him is a Jeep Pickup for sale. After seeing the picture? I had to call the owner. It was a Green 1976 Jeep J-20 3/4 ton. With a White Leer topper with the AMC logos on it. I am now the second owner. It was the sellers Dads truck that he bought brand new in 1976. It only left the farm when necessary. It has 46,000 original miles. The difference from my original truck. It it a 3/4 ton and has power brakes. But? Still no power steering. Here is a picture 🤠

The first episode of “The Flintstones” television cartoon aired sixty-five years ago today. Fred Flintstone’s catchphrase, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" was a spontaneous inspiration that came from Alan Reed, the actor who provided Fred's voice. Reportedly the phrase came from his mother, who used to say, "A little dab'll do ya," probably borrowed from a Brylcreem commercial. Though the script called for a simple 'Yahoo!' Reed improvised and the rest is history.

84 C145. When I got it: New transmission and redid it in a month to this:

Alexa, where the hell does this piece go?

Wishing each of you and your families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope it is a memorable time for you all, and may you be blessed!

Nicely done man! I'd have been out there doing a sage smudge and creating new words for a few minutes....

Long time lurker (and learner), first time poster. So I picked up my first Wheelhorse 520-HC about a year ago after seeing it online for a reasonable price. Knowing nothing about them, when I searched and saw this forum, I thought they must be a good machine if there is an entire sub culture. Like all things, the journey was a rocky start. Stripped down the carbie and gave it a good clean. Then left the keys in the ignition in the ON position and cooked the new batttery. Had to replace all the tyres since they looked like the originals, and then the fuel was all gunked up. Oh and of course the starter motor was clicky! But finally after a year of chipping away at it, its finally starting on the first crank, every time. So I'm pretty pleased with that. But today will be replace and rejuvenate the seat and assembly. Also start scratching back the old seat pan and give it a lick of paint. Might actually get around to using it in 2025!

Last year I decided to try duals on one of my modified machines. Quickly grew tired of it and went back to singles today. Was going to just remove the outer wheels but didn’t like the look of the single 6x12 either. Had an old pair of 23x8.5’s in the shed that look better in my opinion. She’s a 657 with a Kohler Magnum 8HP pull-start.

1985 417-A

First is a true mutt. So many different models it's hard to remember all the donors. Second used to be a 310-8. All sorts of changes there too.

1988 416-8

A few other years mixed in. The first one is more recent of my 76 but the others were taken late 70's-early 80"s. Some of the 76 before it became a 'B'160 and as it was off Chandlers salesfloor.

So I stopped by an estate sale Friday. Last day of the sale so everything was 50% off their marked price. It was pretty well picked over but I was able to make a few good buys. First I spotted this little pump. Was not sure exactly what it was but it was brand new and cheap. Turns out this little pump is kinda expensive. They run off a 12v car or tractor battery. Mine has a cigarette lighter style plug. Most of the ones I see online have the alligator clips. New they go for about 150-225 . Next item I saw was a bag on the floor of the garage. Picked it up to see if anything was inside. It was empty but I noticed it was a backpack or rucksack and I saw how well it was made. Waterproof material and Heavy-duty leather straps. It seamed well worth the few bucks. Turns out it's a Swiss Army Military Engineer or Mountain Rucksack. Made in the 1980s. Apparently they are very sought after in the hiking , camping, community. Online for 80 - 140 bucks. Next I picked up another old vintage cooler. I have about a dozen vintage cooler. Don't know why I like collecting them but I do. This one is from the 1950s. All aluminum in pretty decent shape for its age. Last was an old school metal lunch box from around the same era. I have several of these as well. All in all everything was less then 20 bucks. I love looking through the stuff everyone else overlooks. Glad I stopped. The photos are as found, before I wiped and cleaned the years of dirt off them. Backpack came out beautiful. In the picture it looks brown or tan but it's a really nice olive green with black leather straps and trim.

Finally a little seat time.

86 417-8 87 418-A 89 312-8 86 420-LSE

Nine priceless gifts showed up Christmas Eve.

My first C-120

Gentlemen, Today I added a 1976 C-160 to my stable Running my 1968 Charger 12 for the past few years has been great, but l am glad to have “upgraded” for both the gain in HP and hydraulic lift! It came with 75lb wheel weights, tire chains and a blade all for a fair price. Seller had a snowblower for it but I negotiated the deal without it. It runs great, besides a couple leaky hydraulic fittings that I assume either need a new O ring or replacement altogether. Anyway, I unloaded and put the ‘76 straight to work plowing the fresh snowfall we got here in Maryland.

Interesting home made for sale near me.

My 1984 C-145 and I’m pretty sure next to it is my 1986 310-8 that I recently sold.

1982 RR-832

Doing some almost mid winter inspection/maint on 654. No oil consumed. Grease all the fittings, etc. Ready for the next snowfall......

Here's a couple

I was given 4 Craftsman snow blades. Three were 42”, and one 48”. Only one had any of the mounting brackets. I had an itch to make a mid-mount grader blade. I started by cutting the 48” blade length ways just above the mounting plate. Then overlapped that piece onto the lower part. Welded it together. That reduced the height from 14” to 9.5”. Then I made a framework to attach to the rear axle. Test fitted to the tractor a few times for functionality before welding solid. Made up a lever to release the pivot lock. It comes out just above the floorboard on the left side. I can easily reach it and pivot the blade with my feet.Got it all painted and reassembled. Drove it outside for a few pictures. (Damn few, its cold out there.) Thought I would share with you all.

1971 Raider 12. 1977 C-120/180 8 speed.

The 70s were the golden years for the Wheel Horse factory in Belgium. Most tractors you see around here are from that era. I have 2, looking for a third 1970 Raider 10 with a color matched magnum 12, the one that started it all for me. And my 1976 C141 currently getting a Lombardini 14hp diesel

Here is my 74 C-100. Not the prettiest but full of character and a fun worker

'76 C-120 work in progress

This is the C121 Automatic "The Ugly Bruce" before the rebuild. And here's a couple partial side shots.