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October 4, 2014 I am gearing up for a great show once again! It has been a very busy summer with family vacations, a trip to the big show, and buying my parents place where the show is held. We are looking forward to meeting some new folks, as well as reconnecting with others. We are truly thankful to all of you for making the sacrifice to be with us. We are pretty excited to be able to host our 5th annual meet and greet. I am planning on doing t-shirts once again. More information and a separate thread will be made at a future date regarding this. Please hold off until the thread has been started for putting your orders in. If all goes well we will be out plowing in the fields once again. The bean crop looks to be doing well. More information regarding this will be posted at a later date. Lodging......Warsaw has some nice hotels that are approximately 15 minutes from the show area. You are welcome to camp on site. Please pm me if you are planning on doing so so we can plan accordingly. Food will be available to purchase. Great food at reasonable prices. Swap meet area will be available again. The more you bring, the better the swap meet. Tractors......all brands are welcome. Shiny, rusty, broken, etc are not discriminated against. Raffle.....if you are interested in helping me with this again, I would greatly appreciate it. 100% of the proceeds will be going to help fight against Childhood cANCER. This has always been an amazing part of our show. I am looking forward to hitting the 200+ mark of machines on the property. We CAN do this, I just need your help! More will be added in the future so please be sure to check back and keep an eye on this thread!

Picked this 876 up today. Bought it dirt cheap. The owner was going to scrap it He didn't think no one would wont this old tractor. Came with a snow plow, chains, weights, rear plow and cultivators. When i picked it up it had some issues. It would rev up real fast, hard to keep it at a idle and the hydro static lever control was real sloppy. Some adjusting of the governor and hydro slide plate and its back to normal again. Anybody know what size belts it takes for the mower deck? Mine need replacing. A little degreaser and it cleaned up decent

Back in 2010, I went to the WHCC show and saw that lots of guys had name tags. So I found a vendor that was making name tags, badges and tractor plaques, and I had a nice name tag made. Well sometime between January of this year and the WHCC show I lost it. Hoping that the name tag guy would be there, I went to the show with high hopes of buying a new one. No name tag guy So after a little inquiring, I found that there had been a slight dust-up between the WHCC staff and the vendor, and subsequently he never returned. So my quest to find him ended last week when I did locate him. I think that they are under new management now, and there is a possibilty that they will be at the next show. But in the meantime, I invited him to join RedSquare, and if there is enough interest, he would like to become a vendor. Here is what I got from him. These are plastic, measure 2-1/8" x 3-1/2", have a pin back. What do you think? If you are interested in seeing his complete catalog, here is the link to his web site. http://thebadgefactory.com/

On Thursday we needed to put the best dog ever to sleep. Stout was my loyal companion who stood by my side day and night. Working from home, he and I spent more time together than anyone else and I will miss him dearly. But I am a dog person and feel empty without one. Today we went to the SPCA in Westchester County NY and found a beautiful baby girl Lab. They said she was pure, but looks to me like a mix. Doesn't matter, she's adorable, playful and sweet. We welcomed "Raven" to our home today, and look forward to a long time with her.

Believe me, I would rather tear apart a trans any day, then have to deal with the wife on a bad day. The smell of tranny fluid is awesome compared to not even having a chance.with the wife. I was 21 years old when I said "I do"...at that time, I did not think I would live past 30. Well, I am almost 65 now...which means that I am a survivor...chicken...know when to hide...etc,...all of the above. Transmissions make since...wives do not...but when you can rebuild one for not much money, and the horse lasts another 40 years...she has a tough time arguing with that....it is a win/win. Start a thread Smitty and you know we like pictures.

You're a little behind Steve.... this topic was started nearly a month ago!.. If you're lucky maybe they'll save you a spot though!

Thought I should share some pics of work with the D-180. My father needed a new layer with gravel stones on his yard and took the Horse to the local quarry. This is located about 7,5km away and gives a trip about 15km / 9 miles each turn. He drove 5 turns with no problem…. =) The first turn he took a little too much load and nearly got stuck in the hill with spinning tires… He had about 1350kg / 3000 pounds on the wagon. The other turns he got about 500 pounds less. With the biggest load this carriage weight was about 2800kg / 6200 pounds. Fairly heavy and it went very fast downhill’s…. The hydro couldn’t slow the speed down (from full hydro) because of the weight and mechanic brakes would be nice to have… With not full speed on the hydro before the downhill it worked better and it could hold the force.

Decided to check out this show with Jason and I have to say that ..It was a really nice show! A great variety of several brands of garden tractors with good food available and very friendly people . Might plan on attending this show again next year. Here are a few random pics I took.

I finally was able to bring home what I feel is the ultimate garden tractor. Ever since getting my 518xi, I have been searching for a 523Dxi. Passed on a couple, missed a few but finally got a fantastic deal from a JD dealer in VA. I already have had offers to resell at a profit before I brought it home! It is a 1998 523Dxi with 605 hours that has a 52" mower deck, brand new snow cab, snow blade (with spare edge) that has been barely used, a pair of turfs, two pair of filled ags, clevis hitch, disc harrow, and rear grading blade. And a picture of: "Poncho", "Cisco", and now "Paladin."

Great thread...hard to find information on these.

One thing is for sure. If it is a rod and you continue to run it you will find out soon enough. It may even put a window in the block so you can have a look inside.

Could also be a busted rod, or valve problem, who knows.

Nice find and it was saved from the scrap heap! Here's a cool rare Brochure for the Walk Away!

I was curious in what other member's use for oils in there tractors. I want to know what everybody uses for there transmission oil,tractor oil,rear end oil,etc? Even include tractors models and what you put in them to keep them on going. I thought this would be a neat topic...

I also got something in the mail today. I got my decals I ordered from Terry at the show for the gray tractor. Top notch! They look great. Now I have to get movin on that project. In a way I have. I got the motor running that goes on it. Kohler 321

Speaking of decals. I got mine last week from Terry that I ordered at the show. Top notch describes those decals. for sure. Glenn

Finally scored a 36in tiller (87-36TL01) Came with mid mount idler and axle bracket and Belt $100.00

Craigslist is your friend. Use the search function. Plan on a road trip. Make it a weekend getaway. My wife and I have gone from North Carolina to Canada to pick up Wheel Horse stuff. Not a single regret.

Saw this at a local show this weekend it has the RJ35 channel frame with unidrive tranny,I was told or read it somewhere that W.H. made a conversion kit,thought it was a pretty cool tractor....

Just use anything that is 30w for your air cooled small engine (Straight 30, 5w30, 10w30, etc. on sale or whatever) Even if you get the off brand - store brand it's still light years a head of the old oil technologies that were available when these tractors were new (most people don't seem to realize that). The key is to just change your oil often. Brand is of no major importance today in my opinion. I have old farm equipment and machines that gets used often. I have preferences for each piece of equipment, but it comes down to just basically greasing everything and changing your oil often.

Smitty, Steve can guide you through it with his expertise. I can't say I was afraid of tearing into mine but more like a bit intimidated. Posts here and Skyping with Steve got me through it just fine and it was actually fun.......except for a few moments . You could even do it one side at a time and not pull any innards out. But be careful not to get any old gasket material inside. Just get the bushings and a pair of gaskets and have at it. Jake Kuhn has great gaskets. Your biggest fear could be getting the hubs off but you've already had them off. Of course, once you get the side plates off you probably should check the bearings and the like. Once you see the inside I'm betting your fears will disappear. But you already know that fearing the wife started when you said "I do". (Me every evening at 5:30 when the wife gets home and tells me what I did wrong that day)

I was just dreaming knew that was the only way just don't want to pull it all apart. Its the only thing I'm scared of besides my Wife.

Yea, I know. Can I possibly go any slower on this project? Actually, I’m pretty happy with the progress. My problem is that I have too many other projects as well. Gotta keep the Mrs. happy. I bolted up the frame to the transmission this morning. I’m leaving painted parts alone for at least a week to minimize damaging the paint so that’s another excuse for the slow progress. I’ve got several parts ready to mount like the pedals, lift arm, rear hitch, etc. The drag link was welded to the steering sector and it was a bear trying to save it. The weld was tearing up bits. I torched the weld and got it to lose some of its temper and finally got it drilled and tapped. The old drag link was history so I made a new one. I cleaned up the hood stand enough to start working on it. The ‘ears’ are messed up (mainly the left) and I ground the bird poop weld off to break loose the bottom flange. I wanted the frame to this point so I can trial fit the hood to make sure I position the ears properly when I patch her up.

Thanks for coming Terry! I was glad you were able to make it. This is a pretty small show that is really in it's early stages, but is growing fast. They said the Friday turnout was at least double the prior year and Saturday was even bigger. I had a great time. Here's a few of my pictures... Panorama of show Strunk Chipmunk Hiller Yardhand [ A view down one of the many rows Colt, Case and Ingersoll had a very large showing... A few Gravely's... love that wood handled Model D! A few of you have seen this collection before.... another collector from Minnesota. Nice little Bantam with Honda repower. There were several Bantams at this show.. I think I saw four or five... a good showing for a fairly rare tractor! There were quite a few of all the Jacobsen-made brands there. Minneapolis-Moline... White Town & Country and Oliver There were also quite a showing of Allis Chalmers tractors. Including theses customs..... a 36V electric And this beefy looking machine. This guy also reproduces the Ganon Earthcavator on the rear of the machine. He had several of them on display. And of course... what multi-branded show wouldn't be complete without a big collection of JD? I didn't mind him being there.... see that little gray bin on the ground by the tent? it was a good portion of a Suburban 5010 trans that found its way home with me! Several paperweights, but enough good spare parts to be worthwhile. All in all a good time at the show... already looking forward to making this a regular addition to my summer calendar. Having not been there I didn't promote it much beforehand... but now, having been there, and seeing/hearing how much it's growing... hopefully we can get the word out more next year and get a larger Wheel Horse showing!

That model # comes back as a 1970. Originally came with a Tecumseh HH100-115095B engine. The Briggs engine is a 1970. Bringing it back to life depends on how big of a smile you can handle on your childs face.

You won the "Lucky Dog" award today!

A picture (or 2) is worth a thousand words.

Before condemning the transmission prematurely, check that the drive pulley is turning (tight on) the input shaft. Also be sure your hubs are tight on the axles. The 700 eaton is not a bad transmission, just not great for ground engaging equipment. Since it has had a life of mowing only, there is still hope for it.

That's the name tag from the Show.

I think the engines have to be spun close to 600 RPM before the compression release closes......This helped me to buy an engine years ago. As I turned the engine by hand, there wasn't compression, so the guy let me have it at a much lower price! Turned it with the started at ome and it had all kinds of compression!

Yes, they were folded down to make it under the William Natcher Bridge.

We were in Owensboro KY today and while crossing the "Mighty, Muddy Ohio River", we saw a very large cruise type boat coming down river. My wife just read in the paper about the American Queen going from Cincinnatti to St. Louis. So we pull off US231 into Rockport IN, went to the boat-ramp and took the following photos. This is the largest steam riverboat in the USA. It is also billed as a "paddle-wheeler", although I did not see a paddle-wheel on the rear of it.

Looks like it's got some serious smoke stacks on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Queen

Back at ya!

last weekend I found a Pioneer model A engine. According to some info I found in here, and cant find now, this type engine was one of the options on the early Ponds. I have it running now and will have to look for another tractor on 12" wheel to mount it on.

I strongly concur with Craig's post above. There is nothing wrong with making your own lining, and if money is REAL tight, that is the way to go. That said, Bob Maynard is looking to go back into production of these linings since his agreement/contract with Tractor World is over. For my part, I try to purchase most of my parts from the members here on the forum. The benefit of doing such is manifold: 1. The quality is uniformly great. These guys make their products for their own tractors, as well as for sale. 2. None of them are getting rich doing it, but derive a tremendous pleasure in furthering the hobby. A little side cash made is certainly deserved. 3. The prices are very hard to beat. This goes along with number 3., I have never seen any "gouging", or inflated prices. They do try to make a little though, as rightly they should for their efforts. 4. They are forum members, and great people to deal with. NO ONE, have I ever have heard, got screwed by them. I am a 30 plus year toolmaker, and can make about any part on one of these tractors on my own. Outside of sheet metal, there isn't anything that I would find terribly difficult, only time consuming. That said, when it comes to the time when I will need a new lining, if Bob is back into production, I will get it from him. Ain't worth the time and headache to make it myself, and the price is dirt cheap. Hell, I own a complete machine shop, and will still buy it from Bob. My two Lincolns worth.

Finally getting started on some of the walk behind parts!

In a 12 volt DC circuit, you must have (+) positive, and (-) negative. From the (+) terminal of the battery, a wire goes to the (+) terminal of any item that requires 12 volts to operate. Some of those item are connected to switches, others to relay, still others to solenoids. For example, the starter is the biggest user of 12 volts on the tractor. The (+) wire from the battery goes to the starter through the solenoid, and in order to complete the circuit, the (-) terminal of the starter, which happens to be the case, connects to the engine block, which is connected to the frame, which is connected to the (-) terminal of the battery. So think of everything that is metal, that is connected to anything else that is metal, i.e. engine to frame, frame to dash tower, dash tower to dash plate, dash plate to ignition switch, etc. all becomes part of the ground system by virtue of the fact that the engine and frame and anything else that is connected to them are connected directly to the (-) negative terminal of the battery.

Here is a good 1987 312-8 wiring diagram Garry

anybody thats on the fence about going to this one, it is well worth it. 99% of the show is under shady trees, usually its hot and the shade is very welcomed. they also have a large parade of almost anything farm /garden related from the old steam machinery and up everyday. i have only been on the Saturday in the past, but like Denny mentioned, its on the other days as well. lots to see and do. check out the activities here..... http://www.threshingbee.org