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with a little custom twist... how 'bout them snazzy bullet taillights, huh? Yep, my 653 got an upgrade today.

Stopped by the show for the day yesterday. Saw a few friends and some nice tractors. Bob (rmaynard) listening to the purr of a perfectly tuned Tecumseh Jimt and wife Karen and Mrs. Zeek (Sue) Jim's puller Jo, Brian (buckrancher) & Bob crusinblue48' s nice puller that he bought from Big Jake and da cheesegrater in the rear Me & Cheesegrater . . . Buckranchers BEAUtiful 57 Bolens Some other interesting pieces. Everyone like's a nice clean Beaver . . .

Anyone who has followed my posts regarding my "new" 1985 312-8 Wheel Horse, knows that there has been several relatively minor problems I have addressed with the tractor since purchased. Headlight bezels, cable routing, missing knobs, blades, hood hinge refurb., taillight installation, etc., etc. I have moved progressively and methodically through them all, and have continually improved both the appearance, and the operation of my tractor. But this problem has me absolutely at a loss as to how to correct. I first noticed the problem right after I got the tractor and mowed for the first time. It was noted again last evening when I mowed. It occurs whether it is hot or cold out, daylight or dark. The problem is that I can only get about half way through a beer while driving the tractor before it goes flat. The vibration and bouncing of the tractor just destroys the fizz. Anyone else have this problem? What did you do about it?

Have the misses hold your beer & with each lap , take a sip & kiss the holder .

KT-175 Series One.

its funny,every tractor I have is my favorite when im driving it

Yes, we will be at the big show next month with this '55 RJ35 and really hoping to bring my dad's '62 as well if I can get time to finish it. So, here are some pics from The Little Guys Show in Mt. Wolf, PA yesterday...

Never have that problem here. Moonshine does not go flat.

A friend of mine has solved this long time problem!! He installed a post in his yard that he sets his beer on and stops at the post for a drink every lap! His only problem is he has more laps then drinks from 1 Can of beer. So He added two more posts in different spots and he has 3 cans in cozies to last all his pit stops cutting 2 acres with no flat beer!

That's why I like my Onan's, they have a 48% increased beer carbonation retention rate compared to a 16 horse Kohler. 59% greater than a Briggs and can't measure against the Techies.... I think it also has to do with can or bottle (let's not go there again), but a can will likely lose more fizz than the bottle and you run a higher risk of thermal loss due to the propertied of the can. It is important therefore to keep a koozie on the bottle , Unfortunately, the koozie doesn't keep the top of the bottle protected, and many place little umbrella's over. HEAT = Loss of carbonation. Ask our UK friends with their "cellar temperature" I'll bet they can't even get 2 laps down before POW flat! And of course, as mentioned you are likely consuming at a slower rate than recommended. There's a chart around here some where with the proper ratio's with respect to time and temperature.

I can see it now. Drink faster and consume a sixer. Then complain because the "Lines aren't straight!"

Drink more and often. 6 pack seems to be in your future before your finished cutting grass. Set a goal man!!!!!

Stays cold throughout the mow! Magnetic and foam lined! Even if its not a beer!

Sweet! Thanks for the pics. All the guys at Portland got a wet a$$, literally a good soaking. Saturday was the best day for us also

4th order harmonically damped peltier based cooler with current controlled switch mode power source

Easy solution, get one of those hat holder thingies with the straw. You mount it to your head, hands free then sip and mow as you go!

Great pics Steve! did you tie the plow down to the trailer?????

Thank you all for the rapid response to my questions. I'm seriously considering letting my '92 520 go. It does have a Kwikway loader, although I never found anything that quick about actually dismounting it. I went ahead and bought a a second Toro, a '96 Wheelhorse 264[something] with a mower deck, to take care of the grass cutting. Pristine?... meh... I probably wouldn't go that far, but it will start right up and is always ready to rock'n roll. It definitely could use some to TLC like a can of paste wax and a bottle of ArmorAll. But it has been stored inside every winter for the 10 years I've had it. I have a bunch of other gear to go with the '92. There's a set of rear yard wheels and tires that have never been mounted, a weight bucket for the rear end, together with 200+ pounds of 10 pound steel bricks. It has its own mower deck that is probably a 40" or 42". I bought the deck used and then discovered how difficult it was going to be to get the loader off and on every time I wanted to mow the lawn. There's a set of chains, and a small plow blade that I never figured out where was supposed to attach. I also have a nice four-wheel, articulated front-end cart. It was made to be towed behind an ATV to get your meat out of the woods. All four tires on that need new tubes [maybe just stems], but the trailer itself hasn't been used probably more than eight or 10 hours. The treads are nearly pristine. I want to unload everything, together with the 264 mower. I am aging out and I need to re-grade to something like a decent, brand-new John Deere yard tractor with something like a 48 inch deck. All I really need to do anymore is take care of a couple of acres of yard and meadow mowing. Once a year I'll tow an old bedspring with a few cinderblocks tied on top up and down the driveway to level out the spring and winter damage. That's about all these days. You give me a reasonable hope that I could indeed unload the package of both tractors and the gear for somewhere around that $2500 level that I need/want, even if I have to sell the tractors separately and also separately sell the trailer. [and thank you rexman, Maine it is indeed the home of high taxes and higher costs, but I'll be selling these cash on the barrelhead.... Might or might not mention it to the governor]

Here is some more pics of my custom Army Wheel Horse tractor, Model # 762. Formerly the very first 702 ever made, I added a 6 Speed High/Low tranny, hence the 762. It has alot of custom made parts on it and rare WH parts as well. Some of the features are custom front bumper with attachamatic brackets, 100 year old barn wood push pads, HL5 head lights, dual 953 tail lights, dual rear hitches, 1045 front tires and monster rear tires, NOS 701 dual belt set up and NOS 701 belt guard, Army oil can with leather strap and custom battery hold down bracket that holds the oil can, 2 grenades just in case, widened drive belt guard, new style brake band and pulley set up, step down foot rests and the Army paint and decals. I used a copper fuel line and a few brass nuts and bolts. Custom Fuse Ignitor (NOS WH Cigar Lighter) and head light switch box. A ton of work went into this tractor to make it look original. I forgot how hard it is to restore a garden tractor, especially when we started to assemble all of the parts on the tractor! It is a matter of trial and error for sure. Put a part on and take it back off. If you get parts installed in the wrong order of assembly, you have to take them back off to install some other part! It all came together late in the evening one day before the Sugar Creek Tractor Show. It was received very well at the show and made quite an impression on those who saw it. A very special thanks to my buddy Larry Packrat Eads for all of his help with fabrication and assembly! He knows his stuff for sure! I still have some paint touch up to do on it and some US Army Numbers to put on the sides of the hood. But for the most part it is finally DONE! It took more than 5 years to finish this top secret machine and now the cat, or Horse is out of the bag!

At least I think it's fixed! Long story. I bought my 704 at the show 4 yrs. ago. It barely ran enough to get it to the trailer. Got it home and had to put points and cleaned out the carb to get it to run. Ran decent but then it quit.No fuel. Had 1/2 tank of gas. Had to repair fuel pump. Now it runs pretty good but a bit erratic. Take of carb and install throttle shaft bushing. Runs great for a while but gets real erratic again. I think it's fuel and go through it again but find out the mag ground wire is worn thru and rubbing on steering shaft. Fix that. All is well. Take it to a show 2 years ago. Starts running like crap again. I have to pull the hood to richen the mixture. A week goes by and now it wants the mixture setting back to where it was. I figured maybe a little bit of bad gas. Go to the WHCC show last year. Get 2 laps into the cruise and guess what? It wants a carb adjustment again. I 'lose" 6 laps in the pits removing the hood and adjusting it. (By the way it was so loud I couldn't hear my engine to adjust it good! ) Of course it needs it set back again later. Now this summer I'm using the tractor to pull the sweeper. It act's up again and I decide to figure out what's going on. I determine it's a fuel problem. Carb is clean,screws are tight and carbs don't go in and out of adjustment by them selves so I rule that out. Tank is venting ok. Could be the pump again and I'm ready to pull it but I think IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING STUPID!!!! it is I replaced the leaking fuel sediment bowl long ago. It put in an elbow,a shutoff and a filter in it's place. It hit me THE FILTER! I installed one of those clear plastic inline paper filters. I have used them for years. Every time I installed one I would have to leave the outlet side unhooked and purge out the air to get fuel to flow before connecting it. I wonder if it's getting air locked. I remove it it is not plugged but I install one of those little red B&S filters in it's place. Burned thru a gallon of gas and the problem is gone. Used to take about 15 min for the problem to show but it's been about 2 hrs. of run time. Should I put the hood back on?

Here is a few looks of my one and only horse. I received this tractor along with a house I'm living in and it has cut a lot of grass over the years. It never had much red paint since I've known it and it had gotten to using a fair amount of oil. Last winter, I overhauled the Tecumseh HH160 engine, but didn't do anything with the rest of the tractor. This winter I decided to give it a complete refresh. Since joining REDSQUARE, I've discovered that this is a somewhat rare, love-it-or-hate-it, tractor with the ovh Tecumseh. Just my personal preference (don't flame me for this), but I kinda like this thing. Impressive power and great fuel economy, and you never have to adjust points. I started off with some new Deestone rubber. 23x10.50 in the rear and 4.00x8 tri rib in the front. Thanks to Matt (Bowtiebutler956) for pictures of his tractor and tires. It makes a perfect match on the original rims. Finally in March, I got the time to begin the teardown. No picts of the actual work, but it was hours of cleaning, sanding, priming, painting, etc. A shout out to Terry (Vinylguy) for working up a decal set. A few things were different on my early 160, but he replicated everything perfectly. Definitely a class act. A shout out to Dave Meyer (chev0545) for the absolutely mint '73 48 in. deck. It still has some original paint on the bottom. I didn't paint it, the paint is original. My old deck was very thin and warped and growing a few holes. There are a few other mods and upgrades as well, but we'll see if y'all can pick them out. More picts on that later.

I have two announcements to make regarding moderators. First, one of our original Moderators, Stephen (Rollerman), is taking some time back in the collector ranks of the forum. Stephen has been a valuable moderator who was always professional and ethical in everything he touched. His guidance through out the years has been an inspiration to me, and his suggestions helped build the forum as it is today. I value his opinion highly and will miss the daily interaction. The door is ALWAYS open for him to return as a moderator here. Stephen, thank you for everything, from the forum to personal I truly value our friendship and all you've done. Onto the second part of the announcement. I am very pleased to announce that Scott (whfan74) will be helping keep the peace. Most, if not all of you know Scott and the amazing things he's done in everything he does. He's often featured in Lawn & Garden Tractor Magazine, is the owner of Wheel Horse Junkies on Facebook, founded a tractor program in the school where he teaches and least us forget hosts an annual event which rivals the best put together shows in the world. I have always appreciated Scott's calm approach to issues and I had the pleasure to meet him at the WHCC show in 2013. When he said "Yes" I was elated. So, Stephen, thank you so much for everything, and Scott, welcome to the Moderator team!

Any idea what year this might be? Needed it like a hole in the head, but for $200 I belive it was a good deal. Needs to be cleaned up, buffed, degreased and waxed, but other than that it is pretty clean. Has the original seat, and shows 1159 hrs when I bought it. The magnum 12 ran fantastic but burns quite a bit of oil. Upon pulling the head, the piston is fairly tight so I am hoping it just needs rings. After decarboning the piston, it doesn't even have any rod rattle. The engine in the pics is a spare, the engine that came on it, looks quite a bit nicer as the tins have good paint unlike my spare. Only took 30 minutes to swap engines. More Pics: More Pics: More Pics:

good pics Zeek great seeing you and Sue again it's been a long winter

I would have liked to see that Power King plowing. I have the same model and that plow is for that tractor. Hope they have a plow day around here again sometime.

i would do the tower (hood stand?) after you get it to a complete rolling frame, something like this.... frame (rolling) with lower steering gear etc.... hood stand, dash and upper steering shaft all wiring, everything behind and around hoostand, choke, throttle cables, battery box, etc all rear stuff, seat pan frame, seat pan, etc engine, finish off electrical, gas lines etc hood, seat and all decals last........ theres probably a lot i missed but most of the parts that are in those general areas would be included at the time you are working on that area.

I'm so glad this was brought up, because I bought a pair of tail lights for my 310, just because, and I always hesitated to put them on, because I knew the holes would show, but now that I've seen this, ill go ahead and do it! Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 using Tapatalk

Picked up 3 D250's, a really nice one, one that needs love and engine work and one for parts. These are actually the first one's I have ever seen and got all 3.

Great solutions! Got to go mow now and try some of them out.... may miss work tomorrow though.

Fabricate mechanical linkage to operate with the PTO lever, and either a smaller glass or a hose that can be used for direct intake.

HAR, HAR, Har.....Leaning toward the guzzling solution.

I knew you had some good ones Steve. that was one of the nicest days at a show and good to catch up and shoot the breeze all day..... that sun really kicked my a** though, I'm hurting today, i was having so much fun i left my Redsquare hat in the truck..... paying for it now.......

Here are the pics I got...great day for a show and it was good to see all you guys again. Tried to get a picture of the snow the day before the show. Mike, Roger, Martin and Terry M. Picked up a few transmissions and a plow.. Some of the guys plowing...that small cat was awesome. That's Jordon on the pink horse...Smokin'Joe 2 tractors back. Martin and Denny Clark Denny, Martin and Rick (jackhammer) Jackhammer...great to meet you sir... Jeff, Joe and Jordon Mike from Aurora had some pictures of an Amigo...took some pictures of his pictures...check this out... These were neat...RUGG...chain drive, B&S engines...never seen these before... Terry Dennis kept busy all day.. Thanks for looking...

Call me Honest Dale

There have been times when I've had to soak the part for days. I use PB Blaster. The most recent was a flywheel on a K91. After a couple of weeks of soaking (I was in no hurry) it finally popped off. In your case, fill the set screw hole up with the penetrate too and just leave it while.

I like the Onan models for a rich deep tone, phenomenal power and smooth running. I'm sure had I bought a 520, that would have been my favorite, but I have a 416-H which is my favorite. I am also partial to the C-160, but Wheel Horse really improved the seat and steering wheel on later models.

One gorgeous worker you've assembled there.

Well, that settles it. the damned holes stay. Thank you gentlemen for settling that issue. Still, I don't like the look, sort of like the open motor mount holes on the K300 engines when mounted to the frames of these tractors. One of those things one needs to accept with a Wheel Horse. Then again, I kinda am beginning to look at it this way: In spite of these design discrepancies, where are you going to find a better built tractor? It sort of adds to the uniqueness of the beast. Goes back to the beginnings of Wheel Horse, they were considered crude, but there was never any question concerning their quality or longevity. Long Live the Fender Holes!

Great attention to detail and way to persevere to the end. That is a machine to be very proud of!

For factory originality... they should be showing.

Went to the Little Guy's Show today and saw it in person. What a great job you did Brian.

Turned out very nice Jack. Im happy for you it runs nice and the wiring worked out ok...... got any pics of your wiring? I'm sure it looks as nice as the rest of the tractor......

A comment of Wheelhorse / Toro OEM belts. In 1973 I bought new from a local Wheelhorse dealer a 1972 Bronco 14 tractor with mower deck. The Bronco 14 is an automatic with full hydraulic lift...thats why I bought it. At the time of purchase, the dealer's mechanic (also name of Dave) told me that the primary and secondary belts and related V pulleys are proprietary and, as such, do not have after-market equivalents. That is to say, the geometry of the V in the pulleys has been designed specifically for and by Wheelhorse engineers. The belt size is between that of a typical A or B industry standard belt, and made specifically to match perfrectly to the faces of the V pulleys made by Wheelhorse. Therefore, as he told me, "when you replace belts, it is necessary to use only the OEM belts". Using after-market belts not specifically designed to match the V geometry of the pulley(s) is usually a futile effort. The after-market belts do not PRECISELY mate to BOTH surfaces of the V shape and, whats more, they are of different thichness and will ride either higher or lower in the "V". This, too, is often detrimental and will lead to the belt roll-over and premature belt failure. To draw more tension on the belt to overcome the roll-over only exacerbates the issue. Three years ago, I had to replace the drive belt in the Bronco 14 (7478 I think). Belt only lasted 40 years..... 'nuff said....

Looking very good! Can't wait to see what the decals make it look like.

She breathed again today after 15 months downtime. I must admit I was apprehensive about firing it up being my first kohler rebuild and complete rewire. But after priming the line to the pump and blowing into the gas tank a couple of times, it started within seconds. Some tweaking on the carb and it is running smooth. The big muffler is off a cub quiet series and comes off if I can get the right one at the show. It was nice for running it the first time though so I could listen for any strange noises but all was OK. One issue now though is no reading on the Amp meter and dummy me forgot to see if it was registering when I brought it home after buying it originally. Tranny sounds fine and all gears are quiet. Decals are ordered from Terry. This will be the Snowblower machine.

Picked up a 500 today.

Build it as high as you can too. Some attachments and accessories can go up high leaving room for tractors down on the floor. I wish mine was much bigger.

There is a few pictures of the tabs in my 500 Specail thread.

I have waited to make my statement on the "Tractor of the Month" feature, so here it is. When the idea first started, I thought it was fun. Then I started to detect a little rumbling about how certain tractors or members always seem to win, or how other members never seem to win. Nothing blatant, but it was there. Then there was the fact that some members only have one tractor, and some members have a tractor for every month. Some only have workers, others have only show tractors, and still others have both. I was asked one time when I came back from the Wheel Horse Collectors Club show if my tractor had won a prize. I said no, there are no prizes. That would defeat the whole purpose of the show, which is supposed to be a gathering of people of like mind and hobby. Many with great talents and others with none. But it's a place where everyone shares one common thing, the love of Wheel Horse. Stories are shared, and friends come together. We look, we admire, we laugh, we joke, and we generally have a great time for two or three days, but we never expect to come home with a prize. Then we can't wait to do it all over again the next year. I think of RedSquare as a sort of mini-Wheel Horse show that goes on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. No prizes needed to keep me interested. I remember a few years back someone suggested a "member of the month" contest. Thank goodness that one died an early death.

Picked up a Raider 12 yesterday (two pic's in my gallery). Did some preliminary "stuff" and added a battery. With the Raider, a Snow Blower 6-1211. Does anyone know where I might find a manual? Opinion of the Raider model? 12 hp Kohler, six speed, runs great! Removed from the Raider, a gorgeous set of "Baby Moons [Wheel Horse]". I always wanted a set, now, on my polishing list but, they came up super with a little help from my dishwasher.