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Was sending some stuff to Lars a couple weeks ago, so I got a hold of Terry Dennis because he had some stuff to send Lars. After receiving Terrys stuff I sent to Lars. I had Steve, And Jim D along with Larz and MJ and we all watched him open a couple things I shipped.

I feel your pain I've been building my wheel horses inside my mud room/laundry room my wife loves it when I push a tractor through the kitchen to get one in there

Like most people living in neighborhoods where work space is limited, and half of a two car garage is about all the space you have. It's difficult when you have to move stuff around to get the wife's car undercover when it's about to storm (hail). I am having a 12ft by16ft work shop built behind my house, per our deed restrictions 200 sq. ft is as big as I can go. Going to have a Wheel Horse theme shop. At least I won't have move stuff around to bring in a car. Can't wait.

Well I sold my 1970 Charger 12 the other day to pay for this doodlebug. I got $700 out of it with a nicely rebuilt mower deck, so I gave my wife $100 and $100 to my buddy who helped me work on the Charger to get it ready to sell. I got the doodlebug for $500 so I think it is worth more than that. I got it home today and sprayed some of it with PB Blaster to start loosening up the stuck parts. I got some good front tires for it with the deal and they are cool looking old school tires that are hard to find in that odd size, like 20X6.50. The rims are the old split rim design and it may be hard to get a tire company to swap them for me. Not too many people want to work on stuff that old and dangerous. I usually list on this site what prices I buy and sell stuff for to give helpful info to other members. I will try to post more pics tomorrow if possible. This beast just moved to the front of the wrenching line. I will have to study up on some Ford Model T and AA info.

This has been my problem since 2009 when I started taking the Wheel Horse addiction seriously. My wife has given me her side of the garage from December to April every year since. This year I promised her that it would not happen. So far so good. So I am cleaning my side today, trying to figure what to do with a 5 ft. wide table saw, a jointer/planer, and a thickness planer. None of which I use anymore but can't bear to part with.

we can get those kid temporary tatoos that wear off in a few days. Get our guns all inked up for the big show. Glenn

I had a beat up snow cab that was unuseable anymore, so I cut the WH logos out of the sides and framed one. Bought the frame from Hobby Lobby for $25 with glass. The cut the canvas to fit and vuala. I have a second piece of canvas if anyone wants it. Throw me $5 and pay the s/h and I'll ship it to you. PM me if you want it.

Today I was able to spend some time getting the gutter straps installed and one downspout along with the edge stiffener. Not sure if you can see it in the pic but the right side has it installed. It is basically a piece of angle at the bottom that gets pop riveted to the panel to stiffen it. I need to do the left side and install the downspout. Last thing I need to do is to install snow rail system once I get them....

I've been working out of an 8 x 8 shed for the past two years! Yeesh! Hopefully we'll be moving next month. Found a place with a 10 x 12 outbuilding and one and a half car garage! The Mrs has been saying the same thing about putting the car in there. I said if we do, I'm going to rattle can it regal red with linen beige wheels....and I wasn't joking! :-P

Ditto...what Koen said.

That is awesome! The only alternative would be sell the wife to slave traders for full use of the garage A man can never have enough garage space!

Dennis, That is excellent information. Short of doing exactly what you suggested, I replaced the cam plate, cam, spring washers and friction washers. After doing so, and before connecting the linkage, I propped it up with wheels off the ground, started the engine, and moved the cam plate by hand. It smoothly transitioned from forward to neutral to reverse, etc.. Then I reconnected the motion control linkage, and made my adjustment for neutral by positioning the cam. I then tried the same thing that I did before with wheel off the ground, but this time using the motion control lever. It too worked smoothly, even though I had a little bit pf play. I tightened the spring washer nut just enough to keep the lever from moving on it's own. Now we go to the actual test drive. Moving forward, the tractor goes from slow to fast smoothly, but when the lever is pulled back to slow it down again, that is when it's like I have put on the brakes. Going in reverse it works just fine until I move the lever toward neutral. The front wheels actually lift off the ground. As I said, there is a little play in the linkage and a bit of play in the bushings of the asy_cam_control so new nyliners are going in there and the lever. Linkage parts are coming from McMaster tomorrow, and nyliner bushings are coming from Jack's Small Engine tomorrow or Wednesday. Nothing more is being done until then, Other than that, I figured out what the actual problem was with the starter. One of the wires came loose and was intermittently make and breaking contact with it's connector.

As long as it involves world domination I'm in.

i'm in for that too, maybe something different, minister of misshaps maybe?

Me! Haha! :-P

That's ok but you have to deduct for any Teckys!

I'm away from my computer for a day and look what happens!!

I just completed schematics in DipTrace last week for the 2nd gen 418 and the 1st gen 416 pcb's. I can post the schematics here and see if they are readable. The pcb design violates nearly every sensible rule known to sound EE principles. No voltage regulation, running TTL chips directly from 12 vdc, placing + and ground leads next to one another in a "molex meets manure" outdoor environment, no base current limiting on low hfe lamp driver transistors - the parade goes on....... I will look forward to your critique on the design.

Not when put in perspective. "Labor intensive" is a common denominator in all apects of this hobby. Labor tends to show itself as the buy in price to become accomplished in the hobby. Ask yourself which one of us hasn't spent inordinate amounts of time, money and labor removing stuck roll pins or wheel hubs, de-rusting (and sometimes re-rusting), and polishing parts on our tractors.I happen to see pursuing an education and developing an understanding of internal workings of the project as one of the more rewarding aspects of the hobby. Plus, I might wager a bet COD will have a smile on his face when he gets his indicator pcb and RR back, both saved fom the landfill. A universal board is a good idea - IF the wiring configuration to the indicator pcb remains constant, pin for pin, across all models. From what I have observed so far, pin for pin compatability across models is a problem. I have seen some models use a switched ground for the parking brake indicator, others use a switched +12 volts.

Yup we finally made one... a Wheel Horse gang... its a Mower Cycle Gang what we call "Sons of WH Malarkey" -Nate

Happy Birthday Craig! The place wouldn't be the same without you...

Seems like the Ponds had the same trouble. Garage just got too small for them. I believe they moved to bigger one a time or two.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUNKY...

holy cow, did not know so many were in the same boat as myself. Guess I'm lucky to be moving into a 12 x 16 shop. I will post photos....

This is my favorite This is a great thread!!!

The cake or the hat? Happy Birthday Lil Brother! May all your Tecky's start easy!

Good deal Motor, gonna show us pics as it happens?

Sounds more like "The Over The Hill Gang".

Big enough?

Looks great !!! when you don't have parts just make them!

OOOOHH...I'll trade you my VP position for that one Glenn.

not any real work on the body to the ranger (engine off and a few other bits, will get a few pics soon), but i have made thees thumb screws at school that would be there from originally to replace some old bolts that where put in there place, i used a bar of mild steel and turned it down on the lathe to 0.25" or 6.35mm and then got a 1/4 BSW (British standard whitworth) die and threaded on the end. then i knurled the thumb side with to passes to create a nice groove then i parted it off and made a second one, there is also a picture of it on the bonnet, and i have to say i really like it. let me know what you think. james

Is there an application for the "minister of mayhem" position? My resume is quite good. Lol Glenn

I wonder if i can still fit into my leathers? Like 3 lbs of baloney in a 1 lb bag. Lol nat,,,,,,,,I like the logo! Glenn

Happy birthday craig,,,,,, emoticon emoticon emoticon emotions sorry,,,dont have any,,,,but happy birthday anyway. GLENN

Probably Craig.with a Tecumseh across the chest!

But I can't let it go..

It's not on my back, I did beat him to that! Lol! Got this one on my forearm back in 2007.

SONS OF WH MALARKEY NEVER SLEEPS :D

kinda threw this logo together...

Make sure you replace the chain. It is a worn and stretched chain that wears the sprocket teeth. A #40 chain is 1/2" pitch - that is the distance center to center between the pins and rollers. As the chain wears that pitch increases to lets say 9/16" (it's not actually that much) so now the rollers have to ride higher on the sprocket teeth where they rest at the 9/16" location and that is a weaker part of the sprocket teeth. Garry

I did manage to put the wheel weights on my 314 -8 for added traction. I may end up putting on the rubber tire chains too before it's all over this winter!

Raider 10 as bought.. After... 312-8 not so much a clunker but it did arrive with faded to pint paint. And odd wheels on the front! As she looks now.... Just without the snow.. or the plow.. I'm not sure this counts.... C-125 tired and battered.. Now errr.... Looks like this

Before..... and after! Duff :thumbs:

The before...as it came off the truck Friday night, and the after... is that Sunday morning, after it's first cutting with the reel in over twenty five years. :text-woo:

I am doing a little research on developing improved circuit boards for these tractors. I will be hitting the books but also lookin for some hands-on time. I know there were several models of circuit boards throughout the years, so I am wondering if anyone has a few not-completely-trashed circuit boards (throughout all ranges of years) that they would be wiling to donate to me to dissect (and I hope I can work with SOI on this) to further my research on a universal, or at least semi-universal replacement circuit board. I will be replacing all grain of wheat bulbs with LED's. Boards will be either potted once burned in (unrepairable, but weather proof) or conformal coated (repairable, but only weather resistant) Also will look into replacing the 3A charging diode with a real rectifier regulator. More to come, as it is very late now.

I would love to find a bare board, the one that came off my 416-8 was damaged beyond reasonable repair.

I have a set of rubber chains and like them. I used them on my 518xi when that was what I used during the winter. They do provide good traction but last year I used wheel weights (actually free weights on an adapter) and two suitcase weights on the back. I may install them on the 523Dxi with the snowthrower this year because the diesel is about 100 pounds heavier in the nose. With all of the snow that we had last year I never had a problem with not putting the chains on, plus I do a driveway of neighbor that is at least a 15 degree slope. When we had the big storm I did use the Ariens walk behind though because I needed to move the snow out of the way. John, I paid $3.11/gal yesterday for Off-Road diesel with the dye. Not too bad considering I always get premium for the gas versions and that was $3.19/gal at the same station.

I know I'm running a little late but here's what I'm going to use this winter for snow removal its a commando 8 with cast inside wheel weights on the back and I have 3 sets of front wheel weights under the seat and a set on the front and I installed a new stainless steel wear bar on the blade this year

Picked the engine back up from the shop. It ended up needing the crank turned as well. Cost me a little more than I was hoping to spend on it, but it will be a really good motor now. Also, ended up finding another NOS carburetor for it. I also had a set of crank bearings I bought at PA I didn't plan on using on this engine, but after all that has been done to it I figured it deserved them. Everything is ready to go together now, hope I can put it together tomorrow if I have time. Got this head out a PA too, it is NOS Also about a week ago I recieved a package from a member here, I can't thank them enough!