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Hello everyone, I have finally joined Red Square after several weeks of reading posts and looking at the awesome pictures everyone posts of their WH’s. I guess you could say I need a place where I can talk to people who have the same “addiction†as me because I can tell you my wife is about ready to make me move out to the garage if I don’t stop talking about WH’s to her. Anyway, I just wanted to post my summer project I just completed two weeks ago. My dad gave me a 1983 Wheel Horse GT-1642 Work Horse back in May. He didn’t have any use for it sitting around his house after he stole the deck off it for his 520 (I owe my dad and my uncle for getting me hooked on Wheel Horses). The tractor was in pretty rough shape so I figured I would give it a go and see how I could do restoring the old beast. I completely stripped it down and got the frame and wheels painted just in time for the big show in Aredntsville. I put the rusty sheet metal back on the frame so I had it to ride around the grounds. The next week I stripped it back down to the wheels and chassis. I sand blasted all the sheet metal down to bare metal so I have a fresh rust free surface to work with. Once all the body prep work was done, I primed it with Rustoleum rust prohibiting primer and then shot it with Rustoleum Smoke Grey oil based enamel. I know the color is a darker than the way they came from South Bend but I liked the color on the tractor. I ordered new decals from Redo Your Horse, which the quality is absolutely amazing!! After some wet sanding and buffing I assembled it back together, stickered it, installed a new seat, and I have been using is to pull my lawn sweep after I mow with the 520. It’s a blast to drive. This is an awesome forum site!!! Thanks for letting me share!!

Got this one from one of my riding ( 4-wheeler ) buddies . He had them laying around in his garage & the $ was right . free . It's ugly but darn comfy ! It was from his old bass boat

More pics hopefully...

This past week I finally got around to getting the new twin together. 45 cube Kohler Command with recast heads, big valves, roller cam, home built intake. RPM's should be in the mid 11,000's. Here are some pics. Hopefully the weather improves tomorrow so I can break it in! Had to cut a few holes in one of my spare hoods to get it to fit. Ran out of time to get it painted. Oh and a video of it idling, audio doesn't do it justice. http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn448/DeereHunterOSS/E82C1D77-6356-45B9-9B50-56C823D0A4C8-9655-00000E3D09FEACFF_zpse9f59e50.mp4

looking forward to the show tomorrow. got the trailer all sorted and loaded up the tractors we are taking. planning on being there around 9 am....... will be the maiden voyage for the new truck and trailer as well........

Welcome to the square. Great looking tractor. Addiction cure is admit it and get more. Well maybe it's no cure but makes one feel good. Marvin

Not really, those are only about $5 or so. Installed two single lamp bulb tail lamps today. Grandsons are waitin' for dust to mow 'd lawn. Didn't find a pig tail under the fender although I didn't remove the assembly. Ran a wire from the light switch. Used solderless connectors and shrink tubing, bolted the lamp housings in place with 10-32 x 3/4" screws using star washers to insure a good ground. All is well. I've had a few lamps fail 'cause the ground wasn't workin'. The star washers dig in a bit IMHO. Light 'em up! I do like NAPA pricing, 4" 12 v 4411-1 head lamps were on sale, less than seven bucks each. GE bulbs, I picked up two just for spares.

With this style setup you usually see 100-125 HP. It should be somewhere in that range, if we got it right.

Wow how many horses do you expect to get out of that monster??

Just a word of caution, Relief Valves are usually factory set for a reason. It can be quite amazing the amount of stored energy a hydraulic system has and once it is released suddenly the results can be deadly. My suggestion would be to plumb in a pressure guage when adjusting the relief valve so that you do not exceed the ratings of the pump and lines. Maximum line pressure is usually printed or molded into the hose and the pump should have a plate that states maximum operating pressure, typically not over 2000 PSI. Take a look at this link for what can happen even to experienced mechanics. Warning if you have a weak stomach do not go here http://www.dennismac.co.uk/hands/hyd/index.html

Nice work. I did a GT 1848 last year myself. It was in similar condition when I got it. Sat outside it's entire life and was more brown than grey.

Morning all, it's been nice to have a break from the 6X6 for a while, but I'm back on the build now. The Ardingly show hid highlight a couple of problems with the ol girl, one being the throttle cable broke loose.. An easy fix.. The other more serious problem is both transmissions started to loose interest in reversing when they got rather hot! And it was a baking hot weekend the Ardingly weekend.. Oil coolers would work, but the problem is finding a couple of them which will handle the pressure of 700-odd psi that the transmissions create at a cheap enough price! Sooo, best find a way to make the cooling fans more efficient then.. The rear trans fan self destructed quite a while ago and gluing it back together just didn't work.. That got me thinking about making a new fan for it.. A quick bit of metal shaping later just to give me an idea of if it can be done.. Not bad, but maybe a little prone to bending when spinning.. Test fan blade number 2 was much stronger,, if a little more interesting to shape.. A measure of the available fan space showed I could fit a slightly bigger fan than original, so I cut out five new slightly bigger blades.. The scales came out to see how even the weights of the blades were.. All within .4 of a gram of each other!! Rather happy with that. Standard size on the left, you can guess which one the right one is The blades need a final bit of gentle shaping to get the curves 100%-ish smooth, but I think they look good. Today's fun will be making the center part of the fan....Should be fun

Yeh that will be a cool project for sure either way you go! Here is a pic of one my buddy and I built for a 92 year old man who wanted to drive it around at tractor shows. It turned out pretty awesome and fun to drive! It didn't take that much work but some custom fabrication here and there. How's zat Chester! Lol! KJ

More pics. brought the C-160 today due to pending inclement weather. Just started raining when I packed up at 4:00. and then boy did it come down. Never saw so much rain in my life. The 160 wouldn't start to get it off the trailer when I got home it had so much water in it. Dried it out and got it going and water shot out from the shroud. Up and down day selling. I thought I got good karma when I towed an old gentleman back to his campsite when his John Deere died but it wasn't to be. I couldn't even sell a new pair of tubes for 6-12 tires for $5. Oh well on with the pics: Today's line up: My friend Jack oiling down his Electro My friend Terry's grandaughter's Lawn Ranger fresh out of the paint shop This tractor ended up dying! Threshing demo Little tractors made out of sewing machines Corn sheller Pink AC C Pug articulated Contraption made to look like an AC G Cooking with gas!! B & S powered rotisserie. This blew a head gasket mid chicken! Videos: Sorry about the bouncing. Rough ride. First 2 are on Marvin and 3rd on the 160.

I'd print a copy of the response that you got from the turnpike authority, and keep it in the truck for when you get pulled over.

My Onans, everyone of them, when checking the oil, cold before starting them, are ALWAYS way over full, wipe the stick off and recheck, they read correct, must be the oil gets pushed up the tube and the cap seals tight and holds the oil up till the cap/dipstick is removed.

I prefer to call mine refurbished and they are meant to be used not looked at.

All that shows up at my house is a batch of kittens from the neighbors farm cats.

i have restored (my way) my 1057 and for the amount of work and detail i put in, i dont want to work it and deal with cleaning it all up. i still drive it, and it gets dirty and dusty, just dont use it for cutting the lawn, digging in the garden or plowing snow etc. but i built my c125 for working, i cut some cosmetic corners, mainly sheet metal straightness and fit, and not making the paint really nice, even though it looks almost as good as the ones i try to make nice. some of the sheetmetal is pitted with rust and you can see it up close, but it still looks like a nice tractor, and most people who see it still think its too nice to use. but i enjoy using this one, and plan on using it a bunch more as time goes on. i dont clean it other than a hose and wipe down every now and again. i will go to the c125 for seat time over any of the others i have rebuilt........ from now on if a tractor gets torn down for a rebuild im leaning toward making it only just nice enough to still use it. 1057.... c125.....

If my 175 looked that good, I don't think I would work it either! This is mine which I've been 'tending to' since '92. Just keeping up with maintenance and out of the rain. I've thought about restoring, but she don't look too bad as-is all original.

Onan definitely has a sound of it's own. I like to think when I drag out the 520H with the Onan (and chrome hub caps), the neighbors assume I've got a day job and ain't on welfare. Sorta like driving a BMW in a low rent neighborhood... However, when when I use the 314-8, with the 14hp kohler magnum, there's no doubt someone is mowing because that sucker is LOUD!!! :)

...off the hook? You decide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeMIhxVEpM&feature=youtu.be

My new rear skins came in yesterday so my TORO dealer mounted em up (two old tires off the rims and two new ones on for $25, thought that was a good price). My plan is to not have to use chains for plowing so I went with an aggresive tread 23x10.5x12 tire mounted on wide 8.5" rims off a GT1848. Heres the pics I know you guys gotta have! I took plenty . Mike...........

When we get snow I just wait for tomorrow and it will melt. However, last year we got about 12" and it took a little longer. :banghead: