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I think I may start fabricating and selling my super heavy duty wheel horse hub puller! Just to protect those of you who cannot resist using a slide hammer

These things are terribly addictive!

Okay... so several months back I traded Sparky for a C100 8 Speed. It Ran and Drove but had a hub which had slipped in almost to the trans case... it was tight but just was one of those things that annoyed me everytime I saw it. Today I decide to TRY and FIX IT, this was after already asking Sparky if he had tried (Answer was yes....), and after noticing a piece of the hub broken off... so somebody else had tried too. But did I leave it alone----NOPE, CAPTAIN DUMAZZ grabs his tools and torch and is gonna teach this hub a lesson on whose boss. I setup my slide hammer---FOR ALL YOU OUT THERE DON'T USE A SLIDE HAMMER USE A PULLER... THIS WAS MY FATAL MISTAKE. I start heating the hub cherry red and start whacking away... hub moves and I get excited... keep heating and banging away. Then...... and the picture tells the rest. I'm an idiot and am posting this as a public service announcement... now instead of running the tractor with the hub slid in I get to roll it in the corner till I can either swap the trans or pull it apart. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I'm So Smart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tony "docwheelhorse"

Hi All, Just wanted to send a couple photos of the 520-8 tilling the Garden today. Tractor and tiller did a great job, for the exception of the hitch retainer opening and allowing the tiller to come out of the bracket. I may drill and pin it to keep it closed. Well here's the pics. Take care Mike

My girlfriend calls it installation art...I call it Wheel Horse progress...Todays accomplishments...Red this week...maybe Tuesday weather permitting

So Geno, I gotta ask?? What's your "Grand plan"? I thought I saw you post awhile back that you had had one WH for many years and just a few months ago decided to collect. So here we are a few months later and you keep haulin em in....at an incredible rate! Are you gearing up a long winter of restoring? Or are you planning on flipping a few? Maybe start a WH parts yard like Kelly has? Or are you just shooting for a massive herd? I'm just curious what, if any, your WH goal is. Mike.......

Easy to pick with toes when you don't wear socks JimD

Tony, you are looking at this thing all wrong. It is a blessing in disguise. Now you can attack that axle and hub directly...the easy way. Sure, you have to split the trans to put the "C" clip back on the axle, but you can clean out the trans and change the seals and know what you have inside. Piece of cake and a silver lining in that cloud.

Good News. I have company in the basement...lol....

Hello All, short story--I bought a 1984 Bayliner Cierra 25' boat for the Volvo 290 Duoprop outdrive... anything beyond that was gravy. Boat was abandoned 10 years ago after the owner died... it sat uncovered and the hull is shot. Motor was left uncovered and was covered in leaves, dirt, mouse nests and any other terrible "crap" you could dump on an engine... Well I tried to turn the motor over in the boat and it wouldn't budge... figured it was seized and shot, so I pulled it out to strip it for parts and get the boat cleaned out to be crushed. I started looking at the motor and pulled the alternator off---the first surprise was that the alternator was seized and the belt was rusted in the pulleys. So I then tried turning the motor over and it moved, stiff as heck but it moved. Out came the plugs and nothing but rust.... I filled the cylinders with kerosene and turned it over slowly and let it pour out and carry away the rust and crud. The distributor guts where rusted to heck so I through a Mallory electronic unit in.... I also pressure washed the motor out of enthusiasm. The risers are dated August 1998... and after I split them and checked them out they went back on. I added some fuel and some water and heres how it ran... no stuck valves and the carb didn't even act up! Simply amazing how an engine can sit for ten years and get rained on, peed on, filthy and so on and still be OK... I ran it for about an hour and fogged it out. Its going to end up in a 25' sedan cruiser I'm putting together. The way this motor turned out was a stroke of luck.... I haven't seen any other similar situations turn out this good. Heck--I've seen motors rusted completely solid just over the winter after sitting uncovered never to run again.... s430.photobucket.com/user/andoverct/medi...zps8740f6f5.mp4.html Tony

I hope everything is finally fixed. Sometimes it takes a lot of trying but usually perseverance will pay off in the end.

All loaded up and going to look for some junkie ol' yardsales. Saw red beside the shed. How much for the "old mower"? Got the Wheel Horse with rotted deck and snowplow. And a seat. I didn't know what I bought for $80 until I got it home and found a decal in the toolbox. "800Special". Yep.... it's different. Motor turns over ... no spark. All gears work running it off the starter. PTO clutch works. Needs tires and battery. It's covered with patina. Here's the pics .................................

From what you've mentioned today sounds like you may have a wire touching somewhere it shouldn't.

yep they sure are......

Are you gonna get the other half next month?

Hard tellin'...not knowin'... you have to give us a bit more to work with.

How do you pick up the pennies with those short arms?

i got to stop looking at those pics, next thing ill be pulling the 1848 down for some work......

I'm with Steve, just go for it and split the trans. It's a good opportunity to fix/replace any worn bits... You may well find the axle is chewed and needs swapping anyway. Also there's some funky guides to tranny rebuild on here Steve knows all about them :lol:

And now with some gingerbread attached. Terry sure is the Man for these decals! Thanks Terry! They look great.

And that's why I left the hub where it was, with nice tight setscrews. Mike........

I sure could use that snowblower lift flag by the axe!

Rick, I have just been lucky. One thing different this year from last...I have picked the Iowa and Northwestern games so far. Last year these 2 teams killed me. I could easily have another 2 or 3 losses this year just from these guys. Iowa plays Purdue next week...at Purdue. Which Iowa and which Purdue is going to show up? Northwestern plays at Penn St.should be an easy game for Penn St. BTW, I have been finding a few lucky pennies on the ground lately.

The problem with the ethanol fuel is that the alcohol/ethanol is corrosive to the white metal in the carburators and erodes/changes the dimensions of the calibrated passages, bleed holes and jet openings. The racecar people that run ethanol hard anodize as much of their fuel systems as possible and then "pickle" the fuel systems with gasoline as soon as possible before storage to minimize corrosion damage. For my own personal small engines it is worth the extra cost and effort to find and use ethanol free fuel

I guess I showed you guys this week

And with the hood finished up and mounted. I still have to find an upper dash. I got a couple of local contacts last evening and hope something pans out.

I'm never allowed to have any sharp objects in my possession Mike.

I think this 3-speed has 1-1/8" axles also. Garry

good to hear Brian. Stay out of CT !! lol

Picked up the poor Work Horse just before dark. The Horse hasn't been used in eight years, parked in a barn. At the time the little Stallion did not have any mechanical issues. The owner had health problems, a groundskeeping crew took over while the Horse stayed in the barn till I convinced the owner, "Geeze, I've always wanted a Work Horse. Please, please, please ". The Work Horse was purchased new and, so I'm told, only mowing (one acre) turf. The Redbone (as in Leon Redbone) gave it to me, "Just pick it up." My son, grandson and I did. Original destination was scrap yard. Oh No! Not that! The poor Horsey needs a lovin' home! Here's how she looks, we stopped under gas station lights for this picture, for our "love at first sight". . PS. No dial-a-height, might add one during the restore.

You gotta keep couple cans of PB Blaster in stock... PB & go hand in hand.

well, I've made progress but am disappointed it hasn't started or driven... I was optimistic and naive that it would just come together today and work, however a few things have stopped me.... 1. I bought the motor unseen, upon sitting it on the frame and lifting the dipstick there's no end on it. Did it snap and fall in the bottom? 2. The motor overhangs the frame and will need a small mod - I already knew this 3. My throttle and choke cables haven't arrived. 4. The motor has no fuel pump! So I've got the clutch and brake linkages sorted. It went together really nicely with very little modification. Just a new link arm to pull the brake band. On the reverse side I repurposed the clutch idler, but added a Land Rover Discovery cambelt tensioner as a reverse idler. Further downsides, the belt arrived but is too long... my engine pulley really needs to be a taperlock as it's from a briggs and was held on by a bolt.The magnum doesn't have a thread in the drive end. So it's a reasonable shopping list this week: Battery Seat Taperlock bush and pulley Longer belt Fuel bung and tap for tank Fuel pump Starter switch Solenoid

Well, I am ready to go get more horses! I put the 22" factory Escalade Platinum wheels on it. The 22's with the 305-45-22 tires showed the GM rake more than I like so I just ordered a 2" front lift for it. Will do it next week and show pics after it's done. Does it look too much like a pimp mobile now? I'm a WHEEL HORSE PIMP. Oh help me.

Jeesh! Tough crowd! Can't a girl get a break for burning her hand? It's tough to produce a video with one hand! So, here it is. Ed, it probably still wasn't worth getting up early for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plLoCF6tJpw

I don't know if it's supposed to, but I'm positive I can make it come apart!

Isn't there a football game on?

FEW MORE PICTURES THIS MORNING. THE TRACTOR HAD A RATS NEST OF WIRING WHEN I GOT IT. THE FIRST OWNER AN A FUSE PANEL 8 INCHES LONG AND HAD A TRAILER HOOK UP AND REAR SPOT LIGHTS. I CLEANED IT UP HERE IS FINSHED PICT OF BEHIND THE DASH. THIS TRACTOR HAD A CIGARETTE LIGHTER. DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF THIS CAME WITH A LIGHTER OR WAS IT INSTALLED LATER? I NOW SOME OLDER ONES CAME WITH CIGARETTE LIGHTERS. ANYWAY I HOOKED IT UP. HERE IS A PICTURE WITH THE ENGINE INSTALLED. WHEN I GOT THE TRACTOR I WAS TOLD THAT IT HAD NO COMPRESSION. I HAD TO TRY IT FOR MY SELF. ONLY THING I FOUND WAS THAT IT HAD NO SPARK. SO I USED THE IDEA OFF OF BRIAN MILLER WEB SITE. I LEARNED ALOT FROM THAT SITE. TRACTOR FIRED RIGHT UP. THE ENGINE HAS SOME VALVE SMACKING NOISES I HOPE THIS IS OK. I REALLY DO NOT WANT TO GET NEW VALVES AT THIS TIME. I DID TAKE THE HEADS OFF TO CHECK FOR CARBON. I STILL CAN SEE THE HONING MARKS IN THE CYLINDER WALLS. I ASSUME THAT IS A GOODTHING. THE REAREND I CUT THE OLD WHEEL HORSE LOGO OFF OLD PLASTIC FENDERS AND I ALSO REUSED THE LIGHTS. LOOKS PRETTY GOOD FOR NOW. THE REAR PART THAT HAS THE LIGHTS AND LOGO ON IT CAME FROM LEGS OFF A TABLE SAW. THE BELT GUARD WAS HOMEMADE THE METAL CAME A 67 MUSTANG QUARTER PANEL. I USE WHAT EVER I CAN TO SAVE MONEY. THE NEXT PART IS GOING TO BE THE HOOD "WHAT A MESS".

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Another day in the shop, or well a few hours I should say. I didn't get Everything accomplished that I'd hoped but ... Still got a bit more done. For the life of me I cannot find my Kohler M18/M20 Engine Manual. Guess I'll have to order another one. I don't know for sure how the plugs go on the end(s) of the cam shaft and It's been a year since I pulled it apart, so I don't remember. I'm also missing the odd bolt here and there. Need to find out how the Linkage goes, and of course figuring out all the tins ... Set everything in place figuring out what I need, and what goes where ... I knew I should've taken better (more) photo's when I pulled it apart. Thankfully everything is in Ziplock baggies. Mostly. I did get both heads on, and even with the heads only a little more than finger tight it has decent compression. I'm quite happy. It turns over as it should without any odd noises. For a first Small Engine rebuild that has had a very very very rough life .... I think It's come out good!

Rough year so far. Let's face it, The Big Ten is in shambles right now. No matter who ya pick, it's wrong. Some of the teams that should be winning are falling apart and some of the teams that were weak the last few seasons are winning now. I guess we've achieved some form of parity in the conference but it's not advancing the B1G to be able to compete with the SEC and other strong conferences. The burning question of the week: What is a Ute?

WH algebra...... PB blaster + carb cleaner + starting fluid + Sea Foam = Happy Horse

old pic but same view but with different occupant Brian

If anyone remembers my last post, I had a song stuck in my head for like ever. The best way to get rid of it? Learn it! but here's something else I've been into lately! So much 70's fusion good-ness!

Craig, that picture of your axle looks like it has a worn area just in front of the seal...that would explain why you may have 2 seals trying to stop the leaks. Is that a 1968 Commando? If so, that is a #5053 transmission with 1" axles. Another seal in there is not going to solve your problem if the picture tells the story. If the axle is bad, both the left and right are the same...wheel Horse # 3904...racinfool40 (Mike) may have one or two if you need them. The seal for the 1" axle is TORO # 100863 or SKF # 9815. Ed...if you have 1" axles, use the numbers that I gave Craig. Your other option is...if you have 1 1/8" axles...Wheel Horse # 100443 or SKF # 11050. Your axle is either 1" or 1 1/8" diameter...that is all there is. Hope that helps you guys...

I wanted a name that Steve would have trouble pronouncing.

Mines somewhere in the middle there lol

This is a picture of a cart/trailer I saw at a show that someone made out of the frame of an old tractor. Neat idea and great job !

My work cart hauling my paint turbine when I stained the fence being pulled by Marvin before his "Makeover" Show cart behind the 704