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Well today is my 20 year anniversary, at the body shop, not sure if it makes me happy or sad?? most body men only stay at one shop 5 years or so and move on, I make pretty good money but it is hard labor for the most part, I've been doing body work for near 30 years now, and it's taking it's toll on my body, I'm only 46 but there are days I feel 90, my hands don't work as good as they did years ago, I've been pushing my kids to get a good education and get good jobs so they don't have to do the hard manual labor, save that for the hobbies and such, heck I've been at this shop longer than any thing else I've ever done.

I guess anyone can add information to Wikipedia; in the evaluation box on there, they ask if you'ld like to contribute and your experience, I submitted some information on RED SQUARE, they evaluated it for a few weeks and then posted it on the Wheel Horse information page. Seemed very easy, don't know how they confirmed it, but it's there now. Glen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_Horse

Hi my name is Mark. I am 44. This year my wife, Becky, will have put up with me for the 25th year. We have four kids, one boy and three girls. Ages are 24, 22, 21, and 19. What were we thinking? Two have graduated from college and the third is a sophomore. I was born and raised in southeastern Michigan just north of Toledo, OH. We have lived in MI, CO, and now SC. I started my working life as a carpenter. In 1999 I had the opportunity to take a position as a General Manager of a components plant(wood roof and floor trusses). I have been doing that since. Hobbies are fishing, hunting and woodworking. The wheel horse bug bite my when I was a freshman in high school. My stepdad had one at our cabin in northern Michigan. I always volunteered to cut the grass whenever we went north. Since I see dogs have been brought into this thread I will share that tomorrow is the one year anniversary of having to put our beloved golden retriever down who had cancer. She was only four years old.

Like the hubs that were on the RJ you snagged at Zagray Farms... The rest of us clowns missed that.

Doctor...I said doctor...Doctor

Bill, the all knowing and powerful DUKE of the Snow Chunker fame advised me to use Mobile One 10w-30 in my 417-A. I took his advise and so far no problems.

Here is a quick post of a mid mount grader I just made. Couldn't justify the $350 for a 50in. so here is what I wanted anyway. A 5ft er. The blade started out as a 40in. I cut it in half a welded wings on each side to get my 60in length. For the lift spot I drilled into the main pivot bolt and threaded the hole to fit the bolt I use to lift it with. Any ? just ask. I'm sure there are plenty of you wanting a blade without the cost. Cost of this project minus welding rod and electricity .... $0. Still need to make a release handle to make it moveable from the seat.

I have used shrink tubing successfully for a year now but I do expect it fail. Also I keep a cotton hand towel sitting at the contract points on the fender pan. Shrink tubing is just not strong enough for that application. Duff's idea sounds the best to me.

Here is a page from the 42 inch blower manual. Happens to be a 2001 79360 but same page was published for a number of years. In the manuals section there several. Belt fits right sized and follows the pulley path on the outer smaller PTO pulley. At 3600RPM the auger spins fast enough for me. Here is a photo this past Saturday blowing the full 20 inch auger bite with the upper deflector wing. Snow was 24 inches. It through the snow 30+ ft. Good enough for me. I have 312-8 and with outer PTO pulleu it give more power to the auger. Sorry it is blurry as it was clipped from a video posted in the Blizzard thread. If you want the belt to align correctly, put it on outer PTO groove per the manual. This also stops the belt from hitting the hood upright front side post wearing on the side paint. If you want the auger to spin faster, reduce size of pulley on the drive shaft. Not sure why that is necessary though since it throws plenty far at full RPM on the outer PTO pulley. Tall chute seems to route the snow in a tighter enclosed chute higher than the short chutes, which are also round and short letting the snow release lower down. Up higher in the chute the snow tends to stay together when released from the top of the chute, thus throwing it farther and in a tighter flow out the top. I know 2 stage do it even farther but unless you need to clear the garage to store the snow in the rear yard, the SS seems to do pretty well at least on the 312.

There is a clear urethane tape about 4" wide that is used on the leading edge of aircraft wings that we used on vehicles to stop stone chipping of the paint. Bet that would work if you can find it. Try body and paint shops. Garry

until I get the muffler done here's some eye candy needs to be welded but here it is I like a little Bing on my tractor kinda makes it stand out in a crowd Brian

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Kind of behind on this forum for the truck progress. Heres the last 3-4 weeks: Worked a little today. Snapped some pictures of what was going on. Got my D80 rear! Was in the salvage yard with a 9/16 socket and ratchet ready to pull the cover off and then saw it still had the data tag! Saw something along the lines of 3.54 and L-S so I didn't even bother pulling the cover and went up to pay the $275 for it. It is missing a hub, axle shaft, both drums and one backing plate. The passenger side backing plate is bent so I basically have nothing for brake parts. Then, I brought it home and disassembled it to find this: Couldn't turn the nut without a pipe wrench and bar for leverage. End was mushroomed over and cracked in the keyway. This axle looks to have had the outer bearing fail, seize up and then start rotating on the spindle. Friction melted the spindle end and twisted it and the weight of the vehicle warped it so it wasn't straight anymore. It has an upward curve to it. I heated the end and used the nut to collapse the end back together so I could get the nut off. Have decisions to make on the housing but for $275, I got a carrier and gear set, sway bar and a damaged housing which will need repair. It was out of a 1994 3500 gasser. Video on the axle to come! Got this today also. $300 has a loose pinion shaft (up-down,side-side). I'm guessing the pinion shims are gone inside. Needs gears but luckily I have 2 sets of 3.54 R/Ps sitting around with the shims needed. Metric 63" prothane chevy bushing sleeves being drilled to 3/4" What a mess! Tube brush: Worn diff races. The reason the pinion had slop was the front pinion bearing was shot. I could almost pull the cage off! Cleaned up all the forging lines on the housing, knuckles and caliper brackets: Twisted off king pin bolt: Fixed that: Plan to go down tomorrow (Sunday) and finish axle clean up, start a radiator support and work on rear springs. Tuesday, I'll sandblast all the axle parts and hopefully have some paint on the axles Saturday. Went to look at an NV4500 today and committed to buy it. The trans is in good shape and has 120,000 miles. Black! Added a little more of a weld to the pedals: Rear springs painted, bushings installed and mounted! Used some leftover paint on the rat cab: Blasting pile for (hopefully) saturday Rear rotors/hubs with a fresh cut on the rotors Axle shafts I need to rebuild Welds ground a little more on frame: Cab mounts Gutted fuel filler neck: Rear coolant exit plate I bought. Should resolve any possibility of rear freeze plug leaks and will clean up the routing of heater hoses especially with vintage air, quite a bit! Blasted and ground down a little for firewall clearance: Started washing parts off: Little stuff: And, picked up a good VE lower half for my 93 with a shot h/r. It's been getting bad and now has to have the KSB on all the time to even fire on all 6 and won't idle at all now. Rebuilt at work yesterday with gaskets and seals: Cut my front rotors at work today:

Hot rodders have been dimpling combustion chambers for decades for the same effect, nothing new. Companies making factory and aftermarket heads have changed the geometry of the intake and exhaust ports to introduce the swirl effect for the same reason. Want something interesting? Investigate the "homiginozation" effect publicised, tested and proved by Smokey Yunick in the mid 80's and buried by the big three. And yes, Al Gore invented Mother Nature, heating and cooling cycles and solar flares, so he knows what he's talking about. :ychain:

Steve. 37.5 years old from O'Fallon, IL. Originally from Granite City, IL. Lived in Alton, IL; St. Louis, MO; South Bend, IN; and West Lebanon, IN. Geez, do I miss Indiana! I'm a chemical engineer. Went to a fancy-pants college and saw how the other half lives. Somehow, I ended up specializing in composite materials so get to play with glass, carbon fiber, kevlar, polymers, etc. for a defense contractor here in St. Louis. My wife and I have been married for nearly 14 years, although it probably seems like a lot longer than that for her. We have two kiddos; "the boy" who is 8 and my little princess who is 6. My son has Autism, which means our priorites now are a lot different than they were 8 years ago. I did the stay-at-home dad thing for almost 5 years. Now my wife, who is a family practice doctor, does the stay home duties and loves it. With the lousy climate in the medical industry, I doubt she'll ever go back to that profession. My interest in this WH nonsense started in 1987 when dad bought a NEW tractor for the yard. It kind of snowballed from there into a collection spanning from 1946 to 1999. In the last couple of years I haven't had any freetime to do anything with the tractors and have considered dumping the whole pile of them many times. If it wasn't for the great group of people on this forum and in the hobby, I probably would have called it quits already. I also try to get into my woodworking shop as much as possible. And I love to fish. In fact, I find it hard to believe that there are people in this world who DON'T fish. I mean, jeez, they're wasting their lives... Nice topic for a thread! Steve

This info is really helpful, although I think the real culprit is the 10% ethanol in all grades of gas today. So my question is: "if you have a machine (like a generator) that get infrequent use and you shut off the gas supply (before sutting off the engine) and let the fuel bowl empty, does this minimize the problems you have cited (or have no effect at all)?" thx

Neil, you have me intrigued... Who is the GT going to? Mark

Here is basically what I have for the most part. I know a few things are missing (like the governor arm and spark plug wire), but I do have all the stuff in a small parts box. I am looking at my motor tag now (you can see its not on the flywheel cover), and the tag says this: -Model No. - K90 -Serial No. - 236 365 -Specification No. - 7C1A 2739A (not sure what this is, no label above it) -Plug - .025 -Points - .020 -Valve Clearance - .008 -Oil, Pints - 1.5 EDIT: Sorry the motor is so dirty, the reason why its "2-tone" is cause some parts came from a second motor (orange obviously lol). It will look allot better when its repainted. I am still waiting on a gasket overhaul kit and a few other small parts (seals & bearings), then it will get torn down, cleaned up, repainted & rebuilt.