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I got home from work early today , it was glorious September sunshine so I wheeled out the two ponds to do a little dusting around before I put them back in the stable to cozy up for the winter. While they we out I thought it was a good time for a photo shoot.

Was going to do an around the neighbor hood video but it's over 100 on the Tarmac! Had to settle for a few poses.

Karl I am 100% in agreement. After prior Comments made earlier today MJ was wanting to quit the forum and the whole ball of whacks. I at that point wasn't going to post this Graphic that I created 3 days ago but now that things have straightened out I will post it. This is how I truly feel about our hobby and who it has touched in our world from sea to shining sea. This will be available in a T shirt and also in a Multi Color LED back lighted display that will have a remote control. This is the best I can do on Short notice but you prolly can get the direction I am heading with This. Thanks Duke & MJ

In 2005 my oldest son got his first wheel horse. Below is a photo of him that day. Now cycle starts again with his son getting his own tractor. Those smiles look very similar.

Hi all, Biddenden Tractorfest was once again a great show and unlike last years there was no rain Woo Hoo Here's the first 3 of my Tractorfest video's, there will be a few more once I have edited them.. Enjoy

Why not just ask your questions here? While Bill is well known for being the face (and voice) of the Wheel Horse Collectors Club, he is but one man with one man's knowledge and experience. There are many, many people here who have been far more active lately and are always up on the newest discoveries and observations. In this hobby, a lot of what we have to go on is undocumented, we have to rely on what people have seen and researched. Post up your questions. If the answers are out there, the membership here is happy to help you or direct you to someone who can. That's the best part about the fourm... the vast knowledge and experience of people willing to share.

Been messing with some of my 953 parts the last couple of evenings. Here's where I'm at so far..... Nowhere close to perfect...but I like it! I'm definitely going to order some new lenses from Glen soon! These are in bad shape!

Well some of you know that KenB is big into vintage boats and outboard motor collecting and restoring. He got me hooked... Here are two of my boats before and after pics. I want to thank Terry for all his help in making the decals. He made a set of reggie lettering and Crestliner side decal that is being shipped now for the aluminum boat. I love the horses but as Ken says it is a nice change to have another hobby.

Richie, I'll bet Jerry is looking down and sharing all this with you now.

Hey I'm impressed that a couple of Michigan fans could spell Ohio State right Good luck with your new endeavor

Sometimes the insulator is stuck to the back of the module when you pull the module off and you may not see it. I believe the insulator is on there to dissipate heat build-up in the module and not to stop current. I couldn't say why one would not be on those and the module may not last long without one. I have replaced several modules and I always make sure it has a good insulator before I reassemble the timing cover. Cheap insurance! Pinning this is a very good idea since there are many owners who have never dealt with these engines. Onan's have an undeserved reputation for being unreliable and mysterious. That is far from the truth and if you own one you definitely need the service manual in your hands. These engines brought Wheel Horse from the 1950's into the 1980's in terms of power and reliability.

Love the old pics ,,takes ya right back .

Those are some really slick items, it's so cool to be able to do that. On a side note: I removed some posts from this topic. I'm not sure what the objective of the post was, but to keep this on-track they've all been removed.

Got my W.H. Push mower out today taking it to the big Mansfield,Ohio show this weekend (Sept 6&7) featuring Wheel Horse...

Heat it up with a torch and then touch it with wax. The wax will melt into the threads and "lubricate" it so you can turn it out. I recently welded a nut to a broken stud and then did the wax trick. Used a 3/8" drive ratchet and backed the sucker right out!

First hi all, glad i found this site had no idea anyone else was interested in these wonderful pieces of equipment. On to the reason I am here. Back in 1971 at the ripe old age of 3 I was allowed to tool around the sidewalks on my Grandfather's wheelhorse, a 1967 Lawn Ranger. Of course he would walk along beside me, ever ready to step on the brake. Later I was allowed to mow and pull the lawnsweeper around behind it. When he took with lung cancer and later passed from it, I went to stay with my Grandma on weekends, and helped her care for the lawn, carry groceries, etc. Later, when we all moved to Arizona, the wheel horse came along (less the snowblower) and began it's duty mowing 5+ acres of awful weeds (later replaced with rye grass), in about 1992 or 1993, I had noticed the little Tecumseh engine was getting noisy. One day it ejected the connecting rod out the rear of the engine. I made the mistake of buying a new mower, and retiring the awesome little tractor out behind the garage. Fast forward to 2 days ago... I found a H60 Tecumseh on ebay, no carb, good compression, came from a rupp go kart. $65 buy now... engine is on it's way! So I ask, should i go for a full resto on this little tractor, or just throw some paint and decals on it? Are rebuild parts still available for the engine? I am thinking maybe throw rings and bearings in it, lap the valves and run the engine? do they even have replacable bearings? I have done engine rebuilds from small block chevys to 3406 caterpillars, but i know very little about small engines. T.I.A. for any insight, Wayne P.S. photos of current condition (well patina'd) to follow

Received the decal set today. Wow are they neat. Even my wife was impressed and she scows at my addiction to these tractors. Thanks again for a job well done.

Thanks Nick I appreciate the kind words.

Thanx for the kind words chaps, here are a few more pics I took, I would love to have one of these pics in this years calendar

Mike, thats beautiful!!! These pics get my vote for calander material You must have the day off too??? No workie for me today.

Simply... AWESOME!

Doc I didn't forget you here is a personalized Coffee Cup I made you earlier today, Just PM a Addy and it is sent to you 100% on my dime. Burrly1 and I didn't forget you either WAHH WAHH WAHH. Look earlier in the thread and you will see I made a Hawkeye decal and posted it on a White Coffee Mug. So Quit your Whining. Jeesh.

And Andrews "all in one" Garden Ranger set-up. All in all a Great show Looking forward to next year!

All due respect to those who run less than full throttle, but every small engine manufacture states in their literature that it is to be operated at full throttle at all times. Many of these engines do not have oil pumps and get lubrication from a splash. The faster the splash the more lubrication. The faster the flywheel turns the more air circulates to cool the engine. When you turn three blades as fast enough to cut grass it takes a lot of horsepower. Remember that the blades have an upward curve which uses energy and causes air resistance.

Well I get to update one of my Dad's threads. For those of you who were not familiar with my Dad, he posted this back in 2010 but never got a chance to enjoy the fruits of his labor. The gentleman that he fixed up the C175 for passed away four months prior to my dad. His wife had been cleaning up around the house and remembered that they had promised dad the tractor if something happened to her husband. She had no idea that dad passed away also. So one and a half years later, she found my dad's phone number and called for him only to find out she was too late. So I ended up calling her to find out if she would sell me the tractor and she said no. She said she would give it to me as she had promised dad. So, today I brought her home. As of right now all I know is it is a C175 auto with the KT17 series one motor and a Sunstrand 90 rear axle assy. Dad had posted it being "rough" so I had plans on using the rear axle setup in my ratitude tractor. When I got there and saw it, those plans changed. It needs some tlc but it is all there. She even has the original paperwork somewhere that she will give me when she finds it. She also has all the pics and emails my dad and her husband sent back and forth during dad's "restoration". Kind of a happy ending, just wish dad was here to share in it. Thanks, Richie

I know, It's not a horse, but I kinda like the MTD...It has some character and it is all there. Craftsman snow blower is cool also. Anyone have any interest or info on their age and value ?

Ok everyone here is the one that I am going with this year and I am ready to start taking orders. These are going to be printed on the back of a red t-shirt. On the front left chest area will have the Wheel Horse logo along with some writing. The prices for the shirts will be as follows: $14 for youth medium-XL, $15 for 2XL, and $16 for 3XL and 4XL. I am willing to ship shirts to those of you that are unable to attend as well for $3.50 for the first shirt and $1 for each additional shirt. If you are wanting to reserve a shirt or have one shipped to you, please reply via private message as it is much easier for me to keep track of the orders. I do accept paypal as long as you are willing to "gift" me the money so I am not hammered on fees. Thanks again everyone for your willingness to support and promote our show! Reminder the show is in Leesburg, IN on October 4th!!!!!

Wheel Horse is the featured garden tractor but all makes are welcome. Sunday they appointed me to be in charge of the garden tractors. You can ask me your questions and I will do my best to answer and help you. You can start bring tractors in on Thursday before the show and camping is available.

Looking good!

I got them at the New York Pageant of Steam. 2 tire vendors are there every year. Millers and someone else. I check with the other guy first and he had 1 set for $75.00. I went to Miller's truck and the guy said his were $65.00 a set but the boys at the shop forgot to load them so he had none! So I got them from the first guy. I could have resold them about 10 times in the 3 days I was there.

As much as I like loaders, that thing looks scarey to me. I would have to "Re engineer" the whole thing.

It's kinda cool but I wouldn't have much use for it. Of course that doesn't mean I wouldn't buy it! Just shoot me now.

Lookin' good Hollywood.

Interesting and very important thread. I had an MRI on my cervical spine recently and the tech asked me what I did for work, and hobbies. She asked if I had ever worked in any trade where grinding, welding or any type of metal work had taken place. It seems that when having an MRI, if you ever got a piece of ferrous metal in your eye, and it wasn't removed, the MRI machine would remove it for you, possibly further damaging the eye in the process. I told her that I use a grinder, welder, and wire wheel in my hobby, but don't remember getting any debris in my eyes. I said that if I came out of the MRI with holes in my eyelids, that would prove that I was wrong.

We will be bringing stuff for the raffle, The "MAX NUNN/ St Baldrichs childhood cancer tractor will be there also.

Hey Wayne and You're gonna love this place, there's more help than you know what to do with here. I think we need a new word too, addiction is an understatement around here.

also ran my splitter for 20 years fast idle

My two favorite things this time of year,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, SUNBURN & SNOWBLOWERS. Hard to beleive I had the kids at the jersey shore boardwalk 2 days ago,,,,,, Glenn

Yeah, what RMC said!

Its been about 3 years since we've done this level of service to one of our machines but we have one scheduled for this work in late October. Somewhere I have some 35mm photos of the first one we did many years ago. If I can locate them, I'll try to post them. Last I recall, the bill for a comprehensive service including pulling and cleaning the engine was over $600. This also included all fluids, filters, tune-up and blades, deck cleaning and leveling I think. This very first "super service" was prompted by higher than usual temp gauge readings. The concealed parts of the engine were chucked full of debris. The service tech. had never seen anything like it before and he asked that I come see it before the clean-up started. In that I had just bought this used machine, I photographed everything while it was apart and sent a friendly note and photos to the seller. This resulted in a voluntary $200 "rebate" from the previous owner. It helped salve my initial disappointment.

this will probably be 1 of my indoor winter projects,hopefully i will have it done for car show season next year i will try and post before pictures tommorow,i know .... no pics = it aint real,lol

OK so the cooler day has not got here yet but I could not wait any longer. Yes the 312 runs! To get it running was pretty much a no-brainer actually. First to lube up the inside I poured an once of MMO down the spark plug hole and turned the engine by hand about ten times. Then I took the bowl off the carb and sprayed it with brake cleaner. The bowl had zero rust in it so scrubbing the inside of the carb bowl was not necessary. Next thing was to connect up a battery and a remote starter switch. Then applied a couple of shots of spray carb cleaner, hit the remote starter switch and the M12 came to life. No knocking, and the only smoke was from burning off the MMO. The next thing was to blow out the fuel tank with compressed air and install a new fuel filter and put the carb bowl back on. Poured some gas in the tank, hit the remote starter and Yippee! the M12 runs on gasoline. Then out with the old oil and in with the new. Phase three was what to do about the wiring where the PO before the PO I bought the 312 from had cut up the harness and basically did a good job of showing the entire world he (or she) knew less than nothing about control circuits. So after calling Don Varos for some charging system consultation (BIG THANK YOU DON!), it was time to divide and conquor the starting circuit. After about ten minutes I discovered the seat switch was trashed, the brake safety switch was missing, and the factory fuse holders had been replaced with some ancient automotive glass fuse holders from another botched wiring project. It was then time out. After about eight seconds I decided I was not rewiring the space shuttle, so I took the path of least resistance and unplugged the 12v starting circuit wire from the PTO lever and plugged it onto the pos+ terminal of the starter relay. This made it so I could start and stop the M12 using the key switch. On to the charging system. With the engine running, my trusty FLUKE volt meter showed a healthy 13.89 vdc going to the battery. Check. Now to test out the Hydro. With 225lbs of me sitting on the seat, the hydro worked fine uphill or down. The hydro oil was very clean, so to me that was a good sign. I drove it around about 30 more minutes to get the hydro nice and hot. No leaks or slipping. Check. Tomorrow I will give it a good greasing everywhere there are moving parts. Now I have to decide what to do with it. Should I hang the tiller on it and make the 312 my tilling tractor? Well for now I'm happy it runs and drives. I'll decide what to do with it later. Or maybe take it to the Big Show in 2015 and sell it to one of you guys

Here is a list of the O-rings, apparently still available on-line at Milaca: I don't know why they engineered it this way...it just is. 4-58 971018 O RING $3.95 4-59 103184 RING BACKUP $4.61 4-60 971015 O RING $1.12 4-63 971018 O RING $3.95 4-64 103184 RING BACKUP $4.61 4-65 971015 O RING $1.12 4-66 971015 O RING $1.12 4-67 102817 SEAL-MANIFOLD BOLT Call Us

Well there is one thing about it, Yesterday I told MJ YOU JUST WATCH The Ole Dino is gonna get pissed cause I dint post his Team yet! Well sure enuff he didn't Disappoint. So I made him up one special I was thinking this Is Perfect. It will be blasted Tonight!

Sometimes, for seemingly no reason whatsoever, my ol' lady gets hot, too. Sometimes, they just do.

You might not want any Ohio state decals that come out of THAT shop!

Best of luck in this new venture MJ. Nice job setting her up Bob! Well, we're waiting.. Hmm, maybe some Ohio State decals

So the tractor would not start, but I had just run it about 20 minutes before I parked it. The dash lights and gages turn on when I turn the key but it won't turn over (starter not engaging). I got on here and searched for the symptoms, and found a lot of people having issues with the 9 pin connector. Everyone's problems sounded familiar so I started to investigate the condition of my connector and found this: Not sure if this is the culprate, but according to the wiring diagram it looks like the cooked wire goes to the starter. Anyone replaced this connector?

As posted earlier on another post I had same problem..(same red wire)..did not replace the entire connector...with proper tool, I released the "pin" . removed it from the wire and installed a new "male pin" and pushed it back into the plastic body...pin is a stock item at Toro....cost 4 bucks!...the same pin is used on medical equipment and can probably be purchased at any electronic supply business The "female" connector was not damaged but Toro probably stocks it also. Lesson learned...should have looked at the 9 pin connector first, but all the shade tree mechanics convinced me that the starter relay is always the problem....NOT.... (note to self: sell my new relay to the first shade tree mechanic that stops by to see how things are going) I also replaced the black fuse block...found one at ORielly Auto Parts store with a plactic cover that covers the fuses...I moved it up higher and installed it just to the right of the battery....now it is easy to see and fuses stay clean..cost was less than 10 bucks. So for 15 bucks, the problem is solved...but I could have bought another Wheel Horse with the money that I might have spent on labor....lets see, if shop labor rate is 35 bucks/hour X 10 hours.....yep, thats about TWO horses!!! PS...good to see you found the problem....that 520H is one awsome tractor!

I used a paint stripper and it worked well. Don't get it on your skin. Burns like the devil. This is what I started with. Half way there. All gone Finished Painting What I used I several different sizes of putty knives as scrappers. The important thing about using them is to make the surface edge is flat. What I did was use a bastard file and stood the knife straight up and sharpen the edge frequently. You don't want a cutting edge. It should be square and flat. Like this that was the first time I tried anything like this. Like you I used a sander at first but it just did not seem like the best way to do it. I took the entire tractor down to bare metal. You paint this on with a brush and watch it bubble the paint. They you just scrape it off with the putty knife. Of course I did sand down the rust and filled it with Bondo. Nick