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It's been a while since I updated my progress on the 701, so I figured I'd use this thread that I started back in October to continue the saga. After having the engine spec'd at the machine shop, I had the cylinder honed, valves ground, and crankshaft journal polished. All of this was covered in the thead "How good is a K161?" After 51 years of use, virtually no wear. I installed a new set of rings, replaced the governor stub shaft, installed a new set of valve springs, and finally reassembled the engine enough to get a fresh coat of paint on it today. Over the winter, I rebuilt the carburetor and the fuel pump. I guess they will go on next. The rims have been powder coated and the tires will be mounted as soon as I get a coat of tire paint on them.

I was walking through the parking lot of my local Advance Auto Parts store today and I heard someone yelling at me. I looked around and didn't recognize any cars or people that I knew, but a few seconds later, this beautiful silver car pulls silently up beside me. Driving it was a friend of mine whom I had not seen in over a year. Seems that last year his wife died. He took out a reverse mortgage on his house, cashed in the late wife's insurance policy, and sat around moping and feeling sorry for himself. Well this guy always had the latest and greatest tech toys, but none of them were making him feel better, so last Friday, he took delivery of his brand new 2013 Tesla Model S electric car. For only a cool $94,000.00 dollars, he says he's feeling pretty happy. So I got in, buckled up and we hit the road. He stepped on the accelerator and OH MY GOODNESS. My body sunk deep into the back of the seat as this thing went silently from 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds. The dashboard is all digital as you would expect, and in the middle is a touchscreen computer that has everything you could imagine. Anyway, when I have more time, he has promised to let me take if for a test drive. I don't think that I would want to own one, but it was a fun morning. My camera phone was not behaving, so I only got a picture of the inside, and this does not do the car justice. The other picture is a stock photo that I pulled from the net, but that is what the car looks like.

Hello All just a post here to show you all what I've been up to today as I know you lot love pictures, I've been taking loads not to worry. Today I started to clean my old raider 10 up as I have a vintage country show approaching very soon. And I'm not restoring it just yet, I plan on keeping it original for a little while,so I thought I'd just give it a good clean up, so far I've only just taken the engine housing off and given it a good clean and all around the engine, tomorrow I am starting to work on the whole body and hope to have it shining bright by the weekend, Thanks, Charlie.

Looks Great!!! I also started with a 1998 314-8 after 7 tractors I still have it. It always starts with one.... then another , another .... After one year and seven tractors i went to Wheel Horse anonius and was able to sell 5 of them. Still miss them...

I rebuild them for 250. Seems like a bunch of money to repower for 1600 bucks.

I got a few of the herd out over the weekend. It's great to see which one's are going to run and which one's won't! All these started up except for the Dozer, which don't run yet. I swept out part of the garage and picked up all of the trash in my yard from the over the winter litter bugs! I thrashed each one of these around the yard to charge up the batteries and blow out the cob webs! KJ

Thanks Jake , ill have more pictures here tomorrow Charlie.

Update: I had been trying to find a used core aerator with ZERO luck (I'm to cheap to buy a new one... ). My Brother and I were riding around our small town and went down a street, saw a couple of old warn-out looking tillers for sale. Next to them was a plug aerator - but no "for sale" sign on it. We stopped, I asked the guy if he would sell it and after some haggling, brought it home. I tried it out yesterday and what a great job it did. This is a Precision aerator same as sold at Tractor Supply. What I like about it is it is 40ish inches wide vs 48, so it is an easier pull and just about the width of the tractor. I bolted on a 1-7/8 ball hitch and ball (with 1/2 inch shank) to my tractor and gave it a workout. I used my '92 520-H with foot control and it worked great. The reason I use a ball hitch is my yard is not level. It is lumpy, has some areas with slope and is generally rolling in terrain. When I use a "normal" hitch with a pin on the draw bar, sometimes I get some binding as the implement or tractor pitches from one side to the other. The ball hitch solves that problem. I'll try to post some pics later this week. BTW - the aerator at TSC is $250ish, I paid $75 for mine... Thanks! Bill

Problem with sealers they do not differentiate between go and bad holes. They might seal the leak but at the same time they may plug up the tiny little holes in the acceleration valves.... Wipe it off then run it and see where it is leaking from

1958 Wheel Horse Ride-Away Jr. RJ-58, s/n: 101916 Started with essentially just a rolling frame (first image below), and ended up here after !3 calendar months, a lot of parts searching, and a whole bunch of hard-won restore work. First shown at the 2010 Wheel Horse Show in Arendtsville, PA. This machine has been restored to 100% correct mechanical configuration. Shown with the RJ-58 is a fully restored and functional 1960 model CBR-32 - 32" Sickle Bar Mower. Enjoy!

PM sent, Thanks! That is pretty much the condition I have found the couple pairs I've located.

Shafts are generally bullet proof... it's all the rest of the bits like the gears, couplings etc. that are not. Belts provide a safety margin in case something 'locks up' during operation... Wheel Horse belts are a great investment.

This is my early original 1958 RJ 58. This is my favorite tractor. The K90 runs flawless, It sat all winter and just the other day I pushed it out of the garage and she fired on the first pull. I had to take it for a good long cigar ride thru the trails in the woods after that.

1959 RJ. Here she is upon pick up and then after she was cleaned up. I really love riding this one around at the shows. Runs excellent and shifts nice and smooth.

Love the screw angle adjuster

My first reaction is if this is really your attitude, then you're just as well throwing that fertilizer in the trash as putting it on your lawn. If you don't test the soil and find out what levels you have, it's like adding salt to food without tasting it. How do you know what it needs? The point in fertilizing is to balance the elements in your lawn. Otherwise it's wasted effort (except for the exercise of walking the spreader around) In reality though, its not going to hurt your lawn if you just spread it according to the directions on the packaging. If you don't know what your spreader settings are, you can usually find any spreaders old owners manuals on the company's websites.

I'm beginning to have a storage problem but its not out of control yet. I like what you guys are doing with building the racks. The upper sections would also be a good place to store attachments. Just getting a snow blade, extra mowing deck, and trailer off the floor is a real space saver.

Yeah i think i may have caught it honestly its such a nice machine to work on it is just so simplistic. I may have to get a few more :)

I am not going to get on the pro or con bandwagon, but do make sure you have a fuel filter as close to the carb as possible, so it will catch what may or may not be broken loose by the seafoam.

That's the trouble with stacking. Once they are up there you don't want to bother with them. Where's the fun in that?

Here it is guys. Let me know what u think.

Well I have been replacing alot of axle seals. Have been lucky using a 3-jaw puller and have not broken a hub. I figured my luck might run out one of these days. So I thought it was time to make a puller. Went to the local machine shop to get the stuff I needed. Well I ended you just having them make it for me. For the price and me not really having the time. Here is some pics of it. Got to use it yesterday and it worked great. I don't know why I waited so long to get this done. Here are some more pics.