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Wheel the police escort did not take place but I was the lucky one nominated to lead the caravan. The building was already loaded up on the trailer when I arrived and the guys were just strapping her down for the adventure. Once everything was secure the journey to its new home was underway...... Once we arrived to the school the guys didn't waste any time as the wind chill made it feel like 5 degrees out. The nice thing is that there were blocks for support already in place from the previous building that was removed. They drove up one of their backhoes to help maneuver the building in to place. The building had to be pulled past an existing concrete ramp and then pulled back to it. It isn't a perfect match as far as height is concerned but we will address that in the future. Here it is being maneuvered....... It is now officially home. The heater needs to be wired up and electric needs to be run to the building. We are almost back in business. Updates will be increasing again as progress on the building and tractor will continue. Stay tuned everyone!

The reed goes to the outside and the drain-back hole goes on the bottom: Think of the reed as a check valve..... Crankcase vapor needs expelled, but outside air can't be allowed to enter or the crankcase will become pressurized. The excess pressure will cause the oil to be pushed past the rings and/or up through the valve guides where it is burned. It can also cause crankshaft oil seals to leak and possibly blow out. Each time the piston rises in the bore, the reed should close and vacuum is created within the crankcase. As the piston travels downward, the reed opens and some of the the air displaced by the piston is expelled. The vacuum cycle caused by the movement of the piston is what "powers" a pulse-type fuel pump.

Nice tractor! As I have said a thousand times on this forum you cannot date a RJ on just one attribute... you have to take the tractor as a whole... just because it possibly has silver front wheel doesn't make it a sure thing 1955 model.

I've gotten beer on a couple of occasions.......and honestly if my fingers were not always so cold....I'd have made a yeungling beer slushie to have why I plow. I guess that why I really need a hydro! And just have to throw in a comment since we have a little talk of football going around........here we go....guess who's going to the Super Bowl next year...black and gold baby? Steelers! AND IS it just me. ......or does anyone else think that using your horse to blow the neighbors trash into a circular target ring would make a great Olympics sport..........you could do single stage, 2 stage, men's and woman's competitions! Closest to the center wins....difficulty points being awarded for paper vs plastic.

Its been 6 months I've been dealing with this guy and he finally decided to sell his little RJ35 .He's one of thoses tough guys that don't like to sell anything. The worst part about this tractor its been sitting outside wasting away. So finally we came up with a price and the tractor came home with me. Cool little tractor i like the cast iron steering wheel.This is nice addition to my collection.

Interesting. Thanks for explaining that Terry. The picture you have above is exactly the one I saw out of the "service" manual.

I had never heard of or seen a Wheel Horse until about 1985 or 1986. Pop was retiring and got it in his head he wanted a riding mower to use instead of push mowing. I went with him to look at a rider he thought he might buy which turned out to be a 1968 Lawn Ranger. I was immediately taken with the style and design of the little tractor that was setting out taking the weather behind the sellers house. The guy wanted something like $100-150 for the machine. I recall pop saying what if the engine is shot to me since it did not run. I told him so what, what if the engine was shot either rebuild it or buy a new Tecumseh to replace the one that was there. My logic was the tires looked good, the thing looked like it was built like a tank, I really could not see how there was anything seriously wrong with the machine. Pop bought it, repainted it IH red and I think Allis Chalmers cream, all with a brush. In spite of that it came out looking great. He did put a new Tecumseh engine on it, new belts, new choke and throttle cables, a new high backed seat for his bad back and it was good to go. Pop used it a few years then later turned it over to me when I needed to mow 3 acres a week which I did with the Lawn Ranger for a couple of summers. The LR started my affliction and I have since added three more WH tractors since then. Of course I still have the Lawn Ranger too

In this 1963 brochure, they appear to be Linen Beige.

Thanks guys! What a fun day it has been. Headed back over to do some things and dropped off a storage cabinet and some other misc items. The kids are going to be floored when they return to school and see it. We just need to get electric run to the building and we will be ready to rock and roll. I honestly thought about getting a sign for the outside but decided against it so we are not advertising what is inside of it. So instead I purchased a decal from Terry and mounted it on some foam board to be able to hang it in the barn. Here are a couple of pics from the inside.

Very nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel for the kids you have wanting to get to work on the C120! Your doing a great job with this tractor club Scot, Cant wait to see the expressions on the kids faces when they can stay warm working on a tractor! Keep up the great work Scot!!

Got the new fuel line and tank hooked up today. cleaned the bowl , strainer, and jets. Put a pint of gas in and gave her a shot of starter fluid and hit the start switch. She fired up and ran rough for about 30 sec. , then smoothed out and purred like a Happy Onan. Plugged some lights in and she lit-em up. The Idle-matic setting even works. In this setting, If there is no load, a solenoid pulls the throttle back to idle speed. When the Gen. sees a load, the solenoid drops out and lets her go back to 3600revs. Bring on the power outages..... we got ONAN.

For those of you that have been following along, today will be known as "D" day for the Harrison Elementary Garden Tractor Club. The new building is set to arrive this afternoon!!!!! The new 12x20 will have it's own police escort up to the new resting place. We will be working on getting it set in place and work will soon commence on the refurbish of the C-120. I will be sure to get some pictures and share this milestone with everyone!

I caught Frank Deford on NPR the other day. He was talking about staying with the teams that you grew up with and keeping your allegiance to them. That is why I am still a Bears fan! Reminds me of my favorite Green Bay joke: " Do you know why Milwaukee doesn't have a professional football team? Answer - Green Bay would want one too."

IF THIS WAS CLOSER I WOULD DONATE A TRACTOR TO HELP OUT. I GAVE A WHEEL HORSE TO A TECH. SCHOOL IN R.I. THIS PROGRAM IS WHAT THE KIDS NEED TODAY.

The title say''s it all really. I hope some of you will find this video handy.

Hi all, I'm a super newb here, as in this is post one. I've looked around this fourm and this seems to be the place for all things Wheel Horse. Here's my question. I need a decent lawn tractor and my old farmer neighbor has this Wheel Horse tractor in his barn ( he bought from the original owner,his neighbor, another old farmer who became too sick to live on his own). Anywho, the tractor looks and runs pretty darn good for an older tractor. It would come with 2 42" decks (rear and side discharge) wheel weights, chains, and a snow plow. Being that I'm a know nothing...is $1000 out of the ball park? Plus I kinda like the old guy and he could use some help with money. Please let me know what you fine folks think. Hi I'm Dave!

I have always wanted a 4WD diesel and I finally splurged and got one. This one was used (2006) with 398 hours. Hope to add a loader soon. Thad

Wheel Horse is rock solid. Plenty of parts around and you are on the best forum around, there's nothing to lose!

I don't really know...well, anything about Wheel Horse tractors, other than my internet study. Is this Wheel Horse a good model? I most certainly will update and thanks for the replies. I could use all the help I can get on this one.

Price isn't crazy for everything included... been maintained, how's it run?

A few years ago I built a test rig which was basically an old chassis with a fuel tank and a bit of wiring, Used it a couple of times and decided it was easier to just bolt the motor back into the tractor it came from, hook up the gas tank and wiring that's already there and set up for that engine and run it on there. I usually start the motor before I bother to hook up the drive belt etc, get it hot, check for leaks etc. If it seems OK, I'll hook up the belts etc. When its cold I'll retorque the head, and take it for a ride. I usually run them a couple of times before I work them too hard.

ok, regarding neighbors, no problems. re chainguard, this is my first year with the wheel horse and single stage short chute snowblower. No problems with the chain guard. I do notice how it loads up with the snow. Speaking of which we are supposed to get more in the morning. Btw, i did break the chain with a stone the size of a softball. Glenn

Best guess is yes a 753

Harrison Elenentary is lucky to have you and they seem to know it! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.

I watched NASCAR in the days of TNN doing the coverage, when the announcers knew what they were talking about and only when there was something to talk about. After the France family went for the big money and took the attitude of " we own it and half the tracks so we will change everything and anything at any time with no regard to what you have already spent for the last mindless change" I pretty much quit watching. The races now are IROC races with spec cars, half the talent and drummed up drama from the announcers. Off my now, .

I have been going to update the workhorse kits for a while now so I started with the GT 1642. Will try to finish the other models asap. These tractors are getting popular in the past year.

4" drive pulley...3/4 shaft diameter...

Sounds & Looks like you got all your bases covered for a good O/H

looks like a awesome building scott, needs some signs though. Koen

The Electro 12 has Sundstrand 90-2046 hydro power unit and here is a schematic of it. You need to FIRST...determine the EXACT source of the leak. If it is the trans gasket, 1st to re-torque the bolts holding it together. If it isn't the trans gasket, check the axle seals...they may be leaking. Beyond that, check the pump seals. To split the trans case isn't a simple undertaking, although there are only a few gears inside it. ( It should NOT be necessary to take the differential apart.)

Yes I do unless Bernie Kozar, byner and Mac come back! Lol

@ thehorse...you don't really think that the Steelers are going to get past the Browns next year...do ya??

If you look closely in the center of the picture (click to enlarge) you can see me and the 418 clearing the way to my mother in laws trailer. The horse had cleared all the way and I had come home when it broke. If it had died up there I would have been a very unhappy camper!!

How do you say? Techy challenged.

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Gonna have to hook it to the Ford for a Tug of War!

The 18 is running again…tire chains tomorrow…..finally…..

now there is a man with an attitude ,, it couldn't be the exhaust shallowwatersailor makes 3. All we need now is a place kicker and the four of us could take them

I got a $40 gift card for Applebee's from the neighbor' s across the street for just cleaning the village plow droppings. When she goes to Maine, I get some special pancake mix.Got a bunch of cookies from the couple down the street last year

Wind hit a 100 so far today at the Mt. Wonder what it will hit when the low gets closer. Wow! http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/cam/

Whats up everybody, alot of you guys kind of already know a little bit about this project. There comes a time of when you can do things and finally its has come to life as we know it. It moves, runs fantastic. Kind of like excited if you know what I mean. Anyways I am not computer oriented so if I don't succeed at this I am pretty sure that Bob will get it straightened out. Well here goes.

Gonna need that big ol' Cat if it keeps this up... put down a measured 20" overnight here.

I'm tired of all this snow already, I don't mind the big storm's its all the little one's I'm tired of. I think its Steveasaurus's fault we are getting so much this yr.. He was complaining he had NO snow last yr. Rumor has it that this past fall he was caught in full head dress doing a snow dance with a bottle of Scotch in hand...

I'm 99.7% sure your tractor is a 1963.

Scot, thanks for all the updates. Cant wait for more. Glenn

This should work for you Mr. Moto

Sounds like you need to gather all the wheel horse owners within 100 miles of you with snow blowers to have a ground breaking snow blowing ceremony and make you a nice big open space.

This is too absolutely COOL!!!! I wish I could re-enroll in elementary school (get an advanced degree?). I'm going figure out a way to work a Harrison Elementary Garden Tractor Club decal into the 1/25 scale Electro project.

Well not much of an update to give but here we go........... I can honestly say that we have missed more school the past month than we have been here at school. North Central Indiana is having quite the nasty weather like so many of you are also enjoying. With all of the cancellations we are still hibernating and chomping at the bit to get the ball rolling again. This past Wednesday we planned to meet to work on a special project in the computer lab but unfortunately school was cancelled that day. We are planning to try and meet up this coming Wednesday and see what we can get accomplished. We have caught wind of a very special essay contest involving a B-80 tractor. The kids are going to work on a submission in hopes they can win in order to provide a machine for the club for next school year. The barn is almost complete. I have not had the chance to make it back down to see the progress or lend a hand lately but from what I am hearing the last thing to be done is having the floor painted a shop grey color. The lights are up, the heater is mounted, garage door is installed, siding is all on, insulated and painted walls, electric is all complete.........pretty much all done. Now we have piles and piles of snow where this new building is supposed to be located. We are hoping for a miracle to be able to get this thing up here. Please stay tuned and thanks again for following along on our journey!