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My greatest fear is .....when I'm gone, Hun Bun sells my WHs for what I told her I paid for them.

Used the Lawn Ranger and snowthrower for about the tenth time this Winter tonight! We had snow coming down about an inch an hour from 4 PM to 8:30 PM. I used the Lawn Ranger which worked better than I ever remember for an hour until I sheared off the pushpin/cotter key holding up the lift rod in the back of the snowthrower. I will probably find the washer that held it in place sometime this Spring or Summer! I used the 1963 Wheel Horse 633 and the BD-4262 snowplow for the last half hour! It worked great but after an hour and a half of fighting Old Man Winter I was ready to get warm again inside! This is the Lawn Ranger after the workout tonight! Photo of the lift rod hanging off to the right of the snowthrower. I will get a new washer and push pin on it in the am!

I don't EVER over pay for any tractors....EVER! My wife believes that my barn is chock full great deals!!!!

We got another 4" of snow last night. Went out this morning and blew the snow off my 1000' private lane I share with other neighbors. Got the lane cleared and started to clear individual drives when my 520h lost power to the rear cylinder. It still ran so I drove it to the shed, took the blower and chains off, and put them on another 520H I have. I pulled out of the shed and noticed the tire chain rubbing on the fender bracket so I backed up into the shed to try to slide wheel hub out a little. As I was backing up, the snowblower dropped to the ground. I looked under the tractor and found my lift lever snapped in two. So I took the blower and chains off this tractor and got out my 418A . Third times a charm. The 418A finished the job. I guess this is a good reason that there is no such thing as having too many Wheel Horses.

Nope. Did I say it was a bad day? No heat in shed ! Hoping it is just a spark plug on the 520H. Have not looked into it yet. Might wait till it's warmer out. Not much of a poster but plan on changing that. Plenty of nice people here!

SYMPATHETIC .... Would that be an oil that was sorry your tranny died ? Sorry leave96...........I couldn't resist .....

$20 in tubes could solve the problem also.

You are not overpaying,if you don't believe me go to Sears and see what 1000.00 buys.

Hello! I joined this forum pretty recently and I'm probably not the typical forum visitor. I build scale models - usually 1/25 cars - and I've been working on an Electro 12 model. BTW, many of the model cars that I build are my favorite car and another South Bend native - Studebakers. I found this site while searching online for reference photos and manuals. It's a great place with a lot of excellent resources. Reminds me a lot of the Studebaker Drivers Club forum where the members have always been very supportive of my model building. Makes me want to have a real Wheel Horse (and a Studebaker). Anyway, this is where it all started: Probably not many people are more interested in the Wheel Horse than they are in the Indy Car but I'm building the tractor and may never build the car. The tractor in the kit appears to be Charger but after looking over this forum for a while I decided to convert it to the Charger's cousin - a 1969 Electro 12. I had already built the engine as it came in the box but I realized it wasn't correct for this tractor. This is what the first build-up looked like: So I stripped the paint off and did a conversion: The next order of business was building a mower deck since the kit didn't have one and what good is a Wheel Horse without it! I downloaded the manual for a 5-1422 (Thank you, Forum!) and started scratchbuilding. This has been a lot of fun! Here are a few shots from the build-up and the finished mower: The paint is Duplicolor Bright Red which is a GM color. I bought some IH Red at Tractor Supply but didn't really like the drying properties of the paint. The GM Red matches it very well and in fact I brushed on a little of the IH color as touch-up paint in a few spots and can't see the difference. Duplicolor is my preferred paint. It dries fast and hard. There's certainly more to come. I hope you enjoy. Most of the other major components are under construction right now and will be ready to post soon.

Watched the 7pm news on WNEP Scranton PA. First one showed a GT-14 ( I think) with an FEL in Williamsport PA clearing snow. I was trying to make a note when they cut to another piece with a 520 (I think quick shot) and a blower clearing snow in Hometown, PA. OK who are the lucky TV stars???

IMO if you find one that you have no intentions of EVER selling then you did not overpay.

Man, that story needs a good sound track to go with it.

Dino, you don't have any snow! Our entire yards are as deep as your bank! I was out to the west in Honor this afternoon and the banks along the road were within a foot of covering the road signs. I was in East Tawas yesterday and took a pic of a doe in an opening in the trees, buried up to her neck munching on small trees. If you look close she is in the center of the pic. The loader came thru the neighborhood today. Bet your Tecky would not throw over those piles!

got home today and these were in the driveway......... hmmmm......

personally what i think you guys are calling fair value is too low, i would pay more if i needed one, knowing what i know about their capability. For what they can do to help maintain your property and for how long they will still last if maintained, they're cheap say you pay 500 for a tractor, plow and deck; how much would you spend in one year on having your driveway plowed and your lawn mowed? when you take that into account is $1000 cheap for something to get these tasks done? to mow my lawn would cost $75-100 per week. (I have about 35,000 ft2 of lawn) just plowing for this storm at my house would be over $100. it's about $40-60 every time they show up this storm would have been a couple of visits mine have paid for themselves many times over if you are collecting them to fix up and drive around at shows then you may consider them expensive. You will put alot into them making them look better than new

Parts lists call for a 3/16" x 1" cotter pin in that location. I found that the hole needs to have the rust removed to get the 3/16" cotter pin in. Not a good application for a quick pin as they quickly get removed. Garry

I'm guilty of paying to much but I try to look at what I'm getting even if the its just a parts mower I try to look at what it would cost to buy the transmission or a steering wheel or a seat it all adds up right and you would be stuff your going to use why not pay 50$ for a mower that don't run but has good trans and other things you would use than ur money ahead

Before I would spend $248 for new rims I would go to another shop and have them mounted. Sounds like all they need is the side walls blown out to catch. Were the side walls crushed in when you got them?

Will never happen...if they all go in the box with you.

Inevitable. Can't pass up. All of mine were BARGAINS!!!! Marvin

i just picked up this 551. gave it a bath and now to see if i can get it running (been sitting 5 yrs). hopefully it won't be to hard.

Well today I started out with the plow, but it got ugly real quick, so out comes the blower to keep the CUT in the barn! Actually I just wanted to play with the blower. http:// http:// http://

Woke up this morning to 5" of new snow with 1/2" of ice on top. After breakfast I fired up the D and hit three driveways. The snow thrower slowly ate through the heavy snow & ice. The chute clogged twice so I had to slow down some. The fourth driveway was a different story. My D has the power but not the traction. The drive is about 100' long and most of it is uphill. Thye D just will not grab, even with chains and wheel weights. So I had to resort to my Deere with the snow plow. At least it will go UP the drive so I can plow DOWN the drive. Once I broke up the snow with the plow and pushed it as far as I could (which wasn't too far) I was able to chew through the piles and throw that stuff where it belongs. Now, all three of my elderly neighbors can get out if necessary, All in all, it was a good day.

The snow in central pa was a bear today...so wet and sloppy under that thick sheet of ice. my chute clogged 5-6 times but got 5 driveways cleaned up. My 11 year old passed out flyers this fall to do driveways. He's the clean up shovel man for now since he can't lift the blower. He got a call today because the guy who plows the neighbor did not show up and when he does he takes 2 long swipes and leaves the neighbor 1/2 hr. of snow to shovel. He's learning the value of money and what it takes to make it!

Dino the Ranch is just a couple miles north of me, cool place to snowmobile to with the log bar with an open fire in the middle. They used to have a great breakfast buffet on Sunday mornings. You probably drive right by the house if you go through town to get to Garfield to go up to the Ranch. Yeah, they tore out the Brown Bridge Dam reducing the lake to a very large mud pit with tree stumps. In the first stages they screwed up and flooded a lot of homes on the Boardman River. You can get cherries from McMannis again, but I can give you directions to a better place east of Acme behind the casino. Their apples are the best I have ever had. We do the guys fork truck work and let us hunt his property, talk about ALOT of deer!

Nothing to brag about, not as much as some of you guys, but we did get a heavy 10-12 inches last night, on top of 5-6 from a couple days ago. sadly, last nights was wet snow and pretty tough to push with the 310. had to clear the sidewalks with the snowblower, I'll have to keep an eye out for a blower for my horse! and to think over the weekend all the snow pretty much melted away, and in 4 days this much can come back, I don't really mind snow though, so

Roscoe...I know the deer are small up there from eating pine needles. Uncle...you have more snow then me. Nice pictures mate. What a winter...may put some water back in Lake Michigan...hope. I thought Kingsley sounded familiar...that is the back way I take to Ranch Rodolph. (sp) Tubing on the Boardman River. Used to get our wine cherries from McManis Orchards before they went private. We should never have as much snow as you get. I hear they got rid of the dam at the small lake that was there near the bait shop on the way to Traverse City. That was a nice lake. Jack...a lot of Chicago Land looks like Cleveland... Need one of those lamps for the front window.

thanks Tom..... well just got them mounted on the rims, wow, that was the easiest rears I've ever mounted by hand. done a few now so i got it down fairly well, but these were 10 min each....... gotta go and plow with 416 #1 right now so now more work on #3 tonight..........

It's looking great Martin! Thank you for all the information on the transmission, I'm tempted to split mine and check it all over before I paint it. Good luck with the rest of it! Tom

I had to quit using the Lawn Ranger Snowthrower last night as the lift rod was hanging loose and I had to back up into the garage. The problem was as I suspected the lift rod push pin used in the front came off . I needed a good sized washer and new push pin to get everything back in order. An easy fix but I am going to need this working as Round Two of this snowstorm will happen today or Saturday and Sunday. This 47 year old Lawn Ranger and snowthrower does not throw the snow 15 feet but it does the job and I am more and more impressed about how good the Wheel Horse products were back when these were manufactured. You can see the lift rod is loose from the STR -324 snowthrower in this photo. Here is a photo of the lift rod, a washer and a push pin -ready for reattachment!

OK, got a 70 commando 8. When trying to plow snow, 3rd gear NOW goes slower than secondand grinds going into gear. Seems like loosing power all together. there is pleanty of 80w90 gear oil in the trans. anyone got an idea what is wrong? see attached pics

When that happens to me the lift rod is laying in the snow and I'm out there kicking around in the snow looking for the spacers off the flag.

Nice!!

Not aware of any animal deaths down there?, but know of the Crop Loss costs. Not over yet either. 2 more pretty heavy storms are due through Thursday and the Weekend. I see the Railway Line and Station are being slowly wrecked in Dawlish. Much of the water supply issues in the South East and West are due to the sheer volume of population here, the Aquifer Storage and Reservoirs are unable to sustain the demand for long. All the water runs out to sea and can't soak into the underground storage quick enough. No space for more Surface Storage. I watched a programme about the Water Companies behaviour with regard to investment the other night. I was shocked to hear that they had paid out as much in share dividends as the had made in profits out of us! I don't have a problem with Water Meters. You should pay for what you use. The issue I have is the High Charge Rate per Cu Metre. It won't get any better as Stormin says. The Towns down here are being joined up due to expansion. It will only get worse The Jet Stream controls our weather in the Northern Hemisphere. we get what it wants to produce, no if's or but's. Ok , we had the wettest winter or month for a hundred years, so what. It is not new, because it was nearly just as wet a hundred years ago!. They were having serious Storms here in 1703 (24th November) !!. Before we started seriously burning coal and a fraction of the current population Just because the Thames has not completely frozen over for a couple of hundred years, it doesn't mean it won't happen again. (it nearly did in the 1940's) The severe weather in the U.S. is coming from the Canadian Arctic, so the only consolation is that the Polar Ice must still be frozen and not melting. Got to take what Mother Nature throws at us.

Impressive!

I use 10W – 30 oil in my transmission. Based on some of the posts here, I will switch to sympathetic. synthetic.

Oh yes! Look there's some open fields. Lets develope them and build houses/super store. Develop to me means improve, not spoil. But of course it's cheaper to build on open land, than derelict urban land.

ya you cant buy any horse up here for 330,and a 16 hp would go for way more,years ago I paid 400 for my c160 with a thrower,i thought I paid too much but havnt even seen more than 1 or 2 since then and for a lot more,but if I had the money I would pay top dollar for 1965,like a 855 just to have it

Hey Steve, Most Track sets are readily available, usually as opened sets. Some rare unopened are still around. Most sizzler and fat track sets are not really very valuable. And most are missing the cars. Even a lot of the Sizzlers that survived have paint issues from the fumes emanating from those little Sizzler batteries. As for the regular HW Track sets, one of the rarest is the Great Getaway that I refered to earlier. Mainly because it has the Paddy wagon with the different roof than what came on the regular Paddy Wagons. In the end, they are still,as they were then..lots of fun.

So he couldnt get the beads to 'push out' against the rim? Am I understanding that right? If so, my next question is, are we talking about an actual tire shop? Have you tried seating them yourself with a ratchet strap? Like this: If I am understanding you correctly, when the tire is not seated, the beads are too far from the rim to seat them..... If that is the case, a wider rim is going to make the tire more difficult to seat, not less!

Hard to tell anything from the pictures, but as I suggested earlier, just make a jumper by taking a piece of 14 or 16 gauge wire and go directly from the (+) terminal of the battery to the (+) terminal of the coil. That's the quickest way to test it. If it starts, then you know that the coil, condenser, points, plug and plug wire are okay. Then you can take a meter and check the rest of the wiring as shown in the diagram to see where the problem is. On the other hand, if it doesn't fire by using the jumper wire, you can safely assume that either the coil, condenser, points, plug or plug wire are bad.

Now I am going way off topic but here are more of my toys: Ford LGT165 with 42" mower deck. Ford LGT 165 with front blade. 2011 DongFeng 30HP diesel 4X4. 1985 Merkur XR4Ti.

I know I've said this before, but you have an awesome eye for detail, and you set the bar high for quality work standards. I'm quite certain that no 8 speed ever left Wheel Horse looking that good! This really is going to be a beautiful machine. Matt

Thanks for posting this video , you could have just saved me & my familys life Thank you

just for those that are wondering what differences there are between the jd 317 front axle and standard wh 416 heres a few pics i took earlier while working out what needed to be changed to use it......

well took a look into the transaxle today,and the shifter forks were out of line,i lined them back up and it shifts fine now, thanks for the help.

Take a look at this picture. When you have the shifter removed, looking down into the transmission, this is what the shifter forks should look like in neutral.

My wife and Red Square member Kthack657 designed that flyer.

There is a plastic insert or bushing that is installed on the steering shaft first before sliding it up through the underside. then its held in place by the locking collar. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to come up with something to do the job. if you slide the plastic insert/bushing over the top after the steering shaft is installed, it will just keep popping up and out. hope this helps.

The C-series steering and fan gears had shim washers with a carter key to hold them in place. The carter key wares and bends letting the gears separate. Clean them up good the bushing may need to be replaced add shim washers and new carter key. This should help if the gears aren't worn too much. Is the bracket holding the gears broken.