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I have just about completed my 854 project and it looks good, in fact my wife stated this morning that she wants her own Wheel horse. She has been very supportive of this project so why not restore one for her. We got hooked on antique engine and tractor shows this year and love it. All I need to do is find a 1965 or earlier that needs a good home. We love this hobby.

Working with fiberglass is over rated... if you can machine a stainless tractor you can mix epoxy and watch it cure... Hell I used a trash bag as a release agent. There is not one hint of filler on this hood, just a coat of primer surfacer, base coat red and unwet sanded or buffed clear.

MY STEERING WHEEL IS GARBAGE The original wheel is made by a company called SHELLER after some searching on the net I found one I could use as a replacement also made by sheller with a slight difference the new one is for a 3/4" tapered spline shaft and the original is for a 3/4" tapered key shaft found this NOS military surplus wheel on E-Bay vintage WW2 looks to be a exact match to the original First thing I did was use a tapered 3/4" pipe tap reamer to remove the splines then I made a small fixture and tapered broach guide for a 3/16" broach to cut a new key way the small alum fixture is to hold the wheel at the correct angle so the broach is straight up and down after cutting Brian

After reading Firpo701's thread, I decided to describe my recent experience with modern medical science. I was at the Doc's for the 6 month visit necessary to get my med scrips renewed (you all know the deal) and after listening to my heart, the nurse asked me if I ever been told that I had an irregular heartbeat. Well, as it turns out, I had atrial flutter, where the upper chambers of the heart beat irregularly. I was referred to the cardiologist, who told me he was handing me off to one of the "electricians" on staff. This man was in Maui on vacation, and had to wait a week for him to return. The first cardiologist, a "plumber" was concerned enough to call the Doc on vacation to give him a heads up. After pre admission testing and copays being paid, I found myself in the Levinson Heart Hospital at the Chippenham campus of Chippenham Johnston Willis Hospitals yesterday, being prepped for a esophageal echocardiogam (to check for clots in the atrial chambers) and a cardiac ablation procedure. The cardiologist uses a catheter to make scar tissue so the bad circuit is broken. All was a success, thank God, and I am home resting for a week. The only symptom I had was shortness of breath, and inability to carry a heavy load for long. I blamed it on being old, but by ignoring it, I had set myself up for a blood clot in my heart and a stroke or worse. Now I am wondering if the shock I got from an improper wire connection on a strobe power supply (that almost threw me out of the trunk of a police car) had anything to do with the bad circuit in my heart. As Firpo701 said, DON'T ignore things that don't seem right in your body. They don't always fix themselves!

THIS IS SO CLEVER...JUST THINK, A WHOLE NEW ART FORM !! -----

I just picked this tiller up and it seems to have the wrong engine on it compared to any other pictures I can find. The engine is mounted to a thick aluminum plate which is then mounted to the frame. The way the engine plate is mounted seems professional, possibly original. Engine is a cast iron Techumseh/Lauson 8HP. Any information on what I have here would be greatly appreciated.

Do a search on here. Much has been posted on the subject in the past couple of years. I can give you all the paint numbers for what I use at work, but unless you have access to buying powder from the big suppliers such as PPG or have a contact, the info will be useless. As far as colors go, I use Case IH Red (now called AG RED UD Polyester) for the red, some form of medium gloss black from either case ih (MS45 black UD polyester) or john deere (F9TR) The older off white I use is 'oyster white' which is an RAL 1013. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

BAD BOYS !! BAD BOYS!! Whatca gonna do when they come for you!

What a great score Brian! As for working with fibergalss... there is this idiot I know who made one from scratch for an RJ. I beleive he even has another one in the works...

A few more pics from my overloaded Wheel Horse gallery! 1958 Wheel Horse RJ with a Parker lawn Sweeper 1967 Lawn Ranger, L-157 with Wheel Horse dump cart 1978 C-121 with Wheel Horse Tiller 1963 Wheel Horse 633

I'm new to red square wanted to post my first resto projects 64 1054 and a 68 lawn ranger already got a ton of great info from this forum

Ok guys. Me and the brother just picked it up. The 50 dollar wheel horse. The owner let me have it for 40 dollars. 10 bucks off. At least it was saved from the scrap heap. AND only about 3 miles from my home. Glenn

Ive gotten some decks that looked worse than that and mowed nice and quiet one thing I've learned about these horses you can't judge a book buy its cover

All jacked up... as usual.

...and not a day over 62.

Guys came over today and started to install sliding doors and hardware.

Gerry - you may want to keep an eye on your wife wondering off to far, or for very long! She may get Horse knapped by someone looking for an individual to care for their horses!

Consider this thread Hijacked..

Save me some brownies! Don't let Jim eat all of them, it must have been one heck of a brownie the way those picks look, surprised you didn't eat the whole pan!

Today's word is eight! Please use eight in a sentence. " I watched her eat 2 hot dogs, and then she eight a bag of potato chips!"

One ah,ah,ah Two ah,ah,ah Three ah,ah,ah He is always watching Glenn! Careful what you ask for!!

I would say that Terry's decals are in many ways superior to the originals. But we also do have better materials today then they did back then.

I've got two and neither one of them run.

I think Martin works for a powder coat co. He does some really nice stuff.

Martin is the man for this question. Im pretty sure all of his tractors get powder coated!

I really need to find the aisle you are shopping on!

Surprised that no other damage happened considering the picture. I agree and good call on replacing all of them while it's apart. I'm sure others would help you out,..but everyone up your way is over @ Steve's building a barn.

There is a lot of awesome tractors on here so I'm not sure my black horse will make the cut but I'm going to try. So here's my '87 414-8 In order from beginning until now.

Here is one that I took a while back. I don't own one of the tractors anymore but I think that it is still a neat looking picture

Not sure it's calender worthy but here are a couple of pic that I took over the weekend with my senior in background , the rainbow appeared for just a couple of minutes & may never appear here again. .

My daughters 2000 jeep has 230,000 on it. No smoke but does leak oil. It has a leaking valve cover and hopefully thats the last I have to do to it for a while. I just put a fuel pump in it, radiator, hi flo water pump I had left from mine I never used, and a crank sensor, oh and a new coil pack, ecm, injector o-rings and fuel rail supply pipe, belt, headliner. Lol. Not much left to replace. She went to a friends to stay for a week and was supposed to leave her jeep at home so i could do the valve cover gasket but no..... She left it at her friends in thier barn. Rat decided to chew on her wiring harness at the #4 injector. Wires touched when she got back and drove it home. Shorted the ecm injector driver for that cylinder. Bought one used that was plug and play, HA HA. She has the security key option. Put old ecm back into the jeep and off to the dealer we go. $142 later it was programmed. While it was sitting in the mechanics bay(which was a friend of mine), the coil pack shorted. Off to napa for a coil I could afford. Drives it for a week and dies in school parking lot. Replaced the crank sensor while all her friends watch. 3 days later it starts leaking at the radiator tank seam. New radiator in and 2 days later, stalls at the gas station. I get it going and drive it home. Shuts off twice. Get it going and haul butt down the road and the hood flies up. Bends the bottom edge. But I did find the missing plastic piece for the injector wires i was looking for. It was jammed in the bottom of the hood lip. They are both black so you couldnt see it. Stalls 1/2 mile from the house and wouldnt do nothing. Towed it home with the C-81. Fought it for three days. Found a broken wire going to the coil pack behind the head. And I wonder why I dont get any tractor stuff done?

welcome to RS wow great tractors, my favourite the lawn ranger, might be betting one soon james

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A stubby crank is a short crank or a tapered crank and will not work in this application if it has one

You can do a search for powder coat or powder coating and get a mass of information on it. If you look in the paint recommendations thread in restorations I think the codes for the powder have been posted there.

That motor should bolt to the frame no problem and the has tank would mount up under the dash Here's the gas tank on one of mine

Motor. Your a lucky guy. Was great to read this. Best of luck. Glenn

Here's a set on my C-100 from Glen. Great stuff! Thanks again Glen for making the stuff that is no longer available!

Whoever put that HF "Greyhound" on this tractor saved it from the scrap heap years ago. I'm sure it would have been long gone.

They are....I have a few!

looking at the stuff that is coming out of the oil hole, looks a lot like the oil a mate of mine had in his home made atv, it had a carb that didn't stop overflowing, might want to check that and get it running for now so you can test the trans and deck Koen

Probably Not!!! Are we getting a lil' Fiesty??? Remember you are only one game in front of me now unless you pick the same as me your going Down. Jim, I would guard them donuts with my Life. I don't think Chris has been feeding Dino on a regular basis. I've heard he's looking pretty Hungry these days. We all Know how a hungry Dino can be! Go Hawkeyes!!!

Time for one of these...

this is my barn find, sort-of. my dad bought this 1974 D200 somewhere around 1975 or 1976. not sure when we parked it in the barn, but we know it was in there in oct of 1987 when the house burnt. the front of the barn was open and dad didn't want people to have access to the content with nobody living on the property so we closed the front of the barn in. the poor old D200 sat there for another 19 years until the fall of 2006 when he finally let me dig it out, at one time i offered dad $ 500.00 for it and his response was why one day it will be yours anyways. so i dug it out which was not an easy task in it self. i took it up the road to a friend of mine curvie, even though he was in his 90's got it running again. it had i, believe 397 hrs showing. the mufflers were completely rotted off so i replaced them. never did get the turning brakes working again. me and this tractor have a long history together since dad bought it when i was a teenager. i hope to pass it down to one of my kid or at least somebody in my family. someday i will have to start a thread on it . now it is showing a little over 400 hrs i would have to double check on that might be 410 hrs martin you wanted barn find tractors here's mine eric j

I have been researching this today. I was looking for something very cost effective without using the harder to clean sandpaper type or having to spend time with glue. Talked to Terry and several others as we are getting ready to restore quite a few tractors and attachments in the next few weeks, that should be fun. What I ordered will do 30 tractors. I just bought 2 rolls of this - http://www.tapebrothers.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PRO17-BK6 It will cost $2.54 per tractor delivered, both steps done and it is self stick and waterproof.

they work great,way better than walking behind,heres a pic on my 414

And here I thought the boy geese were chasing the girl geese! Who knew!