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John...I have given this a lot of thought. There are no doughnuts for second place, they are in the basement. Since I can't lose the IOWA game this week, I have had to look at other alternatives. Here is a picture of the guy that ended up in the basement last year (he knows who he is)...he looks happy and content.

New to the herd 551 original

I have been a member for a few years and have enjoyed reading other posts and info. I had a GT-14 given to me last week which is my first Wheel Horse (a brand not common here in northern MN). The GT is a 1970 model 1-7451 serial # 630763 with a 48" deck and a 30" snowblower. Also, all the tires say Wheel Horse on them. The GT has been in the woods for 5-8 yrs. But after changing oil & putting in a battery, got spark and with a shot of ether it fired. Now I am cleaning carb. & gas tank. Pictures are on arrival at my shop. I think it will be a Winter project with many questions to follow.

Yes, thank you, just created an account for this WH site. Really great site from what i have been looking at and reading to answer some questions, My brother got the tractor in the late 80's Started to restore it, and never finished, so it has been sitting arounfd for a very long time until last year. This 400 was a year long build,. Sometimes progress was minor and even slow, to leaps forwards in progress. Parts list, 3-5 hp Industial series briggs engines( picked briggs, for fit, easy to get parts, and easily modifyable, these engines are drag raced, so i have the option to go very radical) Troy Built pony tiller electric start system, 3-plumbling chrome fittings for the exaust, 3 chrome air cleaners, 3 thecumseh H50 carbs, 1 fuel pump operated from the crankcase pressure, 1- triple snowmobile trottle sysem, 1 john deere belt gaurd/ elevator sheet metal, 8 pulleys, 3 idol pulleys, made the battary box and used a motorcyle battary for the small space i had left under the seat that was not taken up by the gas tank/ seat bracket, and belt gaurd , made and mounted the steering system on top the middle engines's L head offset the steering shaft. Deck lever(shortend to fit under air cleaner and remade bracket), reworked clutch/brake pedal, wider tires for the back, 5" ones for the front. and many more hours with metal brackets, intakes manifolds , air cleaner mounts. overall i just got it running and driving late spring of this year, I still have to finish it, just not now, maybe next year,, but painting, will not be an option, i kept it as gotten condition and i wanted a Ratrod themed tractor, lot of work just to get it to this point, a lot of EBAY parts since my brother lost a decent amount of the parts he took off

Project is now over Remember the bottom front of the hood ? lots of cracks, holes and rust. I love the end result ! Here is the revived horse... it works like a new one. Many thanks for the help and support

Wife decided she wanted a bigger garden but not too big. Slapped on the loaded Silvertowns and weights and hook ed up the 8" WH/Brinly plow.

A friend stopped by, found in a barn, new in a box a couple of items. He thought I might be interested, Wow! Of course I love gifts! A deck discharge chute, doesn't fit my 48" SD's but, I'll put it away for someone. Have a mule drive for the newly picked up Work Horse but, the newer drive looks good. I needed it too, of course I love gifts.

Picked this one up a couple weeks ago at mentone from Brrly. Finally got it complete and running today. First tore it apart and power washed everything. Went through the drive system, and had to change some gaskets on the engine, and rebuild the carb. Runs pretty good now. In pretty decent original shape. Plan to leave this one as is, just straighten out the hood a little more and possibly some new decals.Still needs a few little things here and there, but is ready to take to Scotts Meet and greet this weekend.

So, here we are, on the floor at last. Tomorrow I will start finishing the engine. I need too paint the muffler and put the tins on. I also must try to paint the hood grill black if the weather holds. I really want to get that done so I can let it harden before I put it on the tractor. I was tempted to put the seat pan on to see what it looked like but I decided to wait for the grill and the rest of the dash panels and put the decals on everything at one time. Yesterday I bought two more sets of decals from Terry. He really does a great job on them. I really have to get some tires for this thing. These are the ones that came with it and they go flat almost as soon as I fill them

I found them at Allied Electronics. Looks like an exact replacement. Order a couple of extras and five switch caps. The caps seem to fall of as I have two without them. I checked the Dell City catalog but could not find any in there. These are Eaton switches same as the one that was on the tractor. I also ordered a supply of molex pins today on EBay. Have some connectors I want to refresh with new pins before I button up this project.

I m proud to can tell you that I am now "Technicien en mécanique générale"(French)!!!! Gooogle translater says Technician inGeneral Mechanical !? Now I m on a professional university called BTS. I have now technical English and it is a big advantage when you daily surf on Redsquare!!!seals, gears an stuff like that. Jeff

That's a crazy lookin' tiller you got with it.

Had our last pull for the year. Started at 11am Sat and last hook down the track at 7:40pm Sunday started at 10am with last hook at 6:10 pm. 152 hooks on Sat and 162 on Sunday, Had to strap flash lights on hoods Sat night or else you couldn't see where you were going, Tiring weekend but a load of fun we had pullers from 4 states for this one. Longest run 368ft @ 26mph for a 4cyl modified. Some of the pullers didn't get most of them battery went dead in the camera

Well, 1 step closer, to being ready...... Took the deck off and put the snow blower on... Took it over to my neighbor’s house so we could prep it before real cold weather hits. Set the height on the skids, readjusted the chain. Lubed chain. If anyone remembers my dilemma from last year with the belt being torn up. A little earlier in the year I was able to find a broken weld on the inside bearing housing. It is welded, but still seems to want to wobble a bit. Not much, but just enough that it has me wondering...... Anyway, also trued the main pulley 1 more time, to make sure the "on and off" angle of the belt was evenly split. Once all that was done, I dropped the blower again, pressure washed the deck before I put it back on. Hit all the zerts on the tractor and mower and re-attached the deck....BTW, maybe just me, but after 2 years I have finally found a simple way to re-attach the deck..... Call me just a little slow...... My issue had always been the front attachment bar. I would try and get that attached first.... I would always have issues getting it just right and then tripping the lever to release the clamps to hold it in place.... Then I would attach the lift arms.... Well, dummy me, got the idea to attach the lift arms first, then raise the lift arms, and what do you think happens when you raise the lift arms? It also raises the front bar that fits nice and neat, right into the front attachment.... Genius idea ROB! Takes all of 30 seconds to complete these steps now where it use to take me anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes……

If you are getting no flow of gas from the glass bowl when you disconnect the inlet tube from the pump, another pump probably isn't going to help. You need to find out why the gas is not flowing out of the tank by gravity

Maybe the trash man will take the Craftsman.

Paint the deck yellow, sell it to the Deere guy's and you'd have a free D 250

I imagine... somewhere out there is a trash man... who is very upset with you right now.

I would think that would be the best you could get for the snow.

Good ole 1067

I put 16-6.50-8' Firestones on my 417-8 with forward swept axle with gear reduction. it steers so easy now it ain't even funny.. I have the receipt for 160 bucks..

Hmm...have you checked the gas cap to be sure that the vent is open?

That tractor has been around for a while. Very cool indeed. I always thought it would have a bit more appeal though with era correct motors - Kohlers or Clintons.

As usual, I will be putting a B-100 with a 48" blade into service this winter.

The C-161 has snow duty this year

This has been my go to tractor for the past 7 years. She's being retired or sold not sure which yet. [emoji2]

If it snows here this winter I will be once again using my 312-8... No big rear tires on it this year though ..

Nick, i think del city, mouser electronics or one of them had the exact switch. not sure right now, sorry not much help, but with looking they are out there, and cheap too from what i remember. get the number off it if you can, saves a bunch of searching. let me know if you need me to look at the number on one of mine.... hey, haven't seen any pics for a while??????

Well, if I can find a 1955... maybe !

Sam. What a story. And what a great first horse. I am sure you will find another. Best of luck. Welcome to red square and keep us spoon fed with pictures. Glenn

Bob...a cinnamon stick in there for about 1 to 2 weeks...no longer then that (it will over power)...but is worth it's weight in gold. Especially, if you add some pears with those apples.

The Buckeye Wheel Horse Collectors Club will be at Scotts meet & greet Sat Oct 4th. If you are interested in joining you can sign up there. You don't have to be from Ohio to join but all meetings & shows will be in Ohio. Dues are $5 a year with a one time $5 initiation fee waived if under 16 so you will need $10 to join or $5 for youth

Derek, I will see you there! Looking forward to it! I am aslo looking forward to making a show or two next year.

You have e spent a lot of time on this tractor with no rewards. You said it was getting spark when it stopped running and then you said it wasn't getting spark. Get yourself a jumper wire. Go out and run the tractor until it stops running. Try to restart it. If it won't restart, place the jumper wire from the positive side of the battery to the positive side of the coil and try to start it. If it starts, replace the ignition switch. Don't clean it and don't fool around with it, just replace it. Make sure you get the proper switch for your tractor. They all look alike but internally they are different. By the way, have you checked the condenser? Is it fastened tightly. How many hours on this machine? Many times simply cleaning dirty, corroded connectors is not enough. they can be corroded inside the pin where they are crimped.

But did you look at every bit of the harness? Both tractor and engine? The engine harness has a real tight spot where it passes under the intake and there is way too many areas on the tractor that could be suspect. How did you test the wiring to say it's good? The fact that you are still having intermittent problems means there is still a problem waiting to be discovered. It's a lot of work to pull both harnesses and go over them in detail, but I feel it's your next step. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There might be a market for the by product.. ...TROUTS DEER BAIT

because you had an issue with wiring shorting before, from insulation on wire worn off, I'm going to suggest you go through absolutely EVERY INCH of the harness. there is a spot up near the upper steering shaft can/will rub on the harness and that would be my first area to look. you need to go through every connection as well, looking for corrosion or broken, missing terminals. i think you are at a stage now where you can't avoid inspecting the whole harness, i would even go so far as pulling parts to make it easier to get to everything, i.e. battery, engine, seat pan, hood stand covers etc.....

I have a Beagle named Digger.

I wonder......deciding what to do with it may be "hard"..... Decisions like this cause me to "wine" a bit.....

Real tractors have lug nuts.

Illinois, Ohio St., Indiana,Wisconsin,Rutgers, Mich St. I picked these sittin on the

The 314 & Raider-10

My 1993 314 with 42 inch five sector snowplow and my 1967 Lawn Ranger with the STR-324 snowthrower are going to be the main team this year. I have rubber tire chains for the 314 which I will put on when it snows! I have used Sno-Jet every season on my snowthrower also! Stuff works great!

Ye olde trusty 701! :-)

oh I have forgot to tell you my points! 31.5 from 35 in the maschine shop,4 from 5 in presentation an 14.5 from 20 in the writing part(devloppment,writing a service manual and the drawings) after all 50/60 points.I m a bit angry because it's not the best Nummer out of my classes ( I m the 3rd the other two had 52)because my USB stick broke down and I can 't redraw all the drawin perfektly in time sou I have lost 4 pointsof 10... Tomorrow I will have a second-chance exam in math(stupid teacher). I hope I will pass and I can go to the Universety. Jeff

Not sure this has anything to do with "old guys" or MTD tractors as much as understanding how electrical systems function and being familiar with efficient troubleshooting procedures. Then sprinkle lightly with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect and viola !!

Well, here is what has worked for me, in the past. Casually take your horse for a stroll, down the street, to his house. Make like you are thinking about purchasing one of those POS's. Put yours along side of his. Ask him all kinds of questions about his vs. yours. Look it over real good, usually about this time, I spring the final question. Do you mind if we test their HP strength? I have never had anyone turn this opportunity down. They are usually so pumped about all the questions and now, "he can really prove to ME" just how much a POS it is. Course he has no idea that just becasue his has 26hp and only weighs in at 480lbslbs. that 26hp LT/POS will be in for the fight of it's life against your's that is nearly double that in weight, but only 14hp. Once you pull him backwards, and probably hear something snap in his transmission, you can just sit their, smile and say whatever comes to your mind at that time....