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Well my boy, Zach, has been asking for a plow for his tractor for some time now. He has been clearing snow with me ever since he was 10 months old. He isn't old enough to be turned loose on his own yet, but he will be ready. I need to pick up a few more new bolts and it will be ready. The blade was purchased from Gene Simpson for a good deal. It then was disassembled and taken over to our powder coater. Now the finishing touches are being done and then under the tree it goes for Christmas morning. Can't wait to see his reaction!

or the much more rare "perpetual motion" magnetic powered model 100M.

Seems kinda kooky looking... like something the Grinch would use to steal Christmas presents.

No I didn't give my little boy his snow plow yet. Instead I treated myself to a Christmas present. . Though this one needs a little TLC, I thought it would be another good conversation piece for the collection. From my understanding these were promotional tools for the dealers if they wanted to purchase one. They did not originally come with an engine but many had an engine dropped in them so they could be sold. This one has an engine that needs some wiring help. Hoping to touch up the paint in a few places and just have fun with it. It is about time to reorganize the barn once again!!!

Got in a little taxidermy work while watching the paint dry on the Commando 8 parts. Got my buck ready for the cape but that probably won't get mounted till Feb. Made a little "bunny" paper weight from Owens doe foot. I'll surprise him with this on his 12th birthday in Jan.

Red Square: I am working on developing a replacement for the circuit boards in the 300, 400, 500 series tractors. To do that I need help from you guys in a couple ways. I am trying to figure out how many styles there were and what they looked like (that's where the pictures come in) I know what they DO from the schematics posted but I need to know physical layout for sizing and placement of LED's and connectors. For this I need help from anyone that has a dead or dismantled circuit board laying around. If you are willing to ship one off to me I will be giving you a discounted rate at buying an equivalent number of replacements. My timeline is approximately 6 months depending on how much help I get.

That is some hot paint job on it.

You may also want to consider contacting Glenn Petit for a possible colaboration on a formed silicone 'gasket' or 'collar' to seal out liquid intrusion at the point the PCB mates with the molex connector.

I will send some measurements for the 418 and 416 (appear to be identical). I will also post how to modify non blinking oil low lights to make them blink on low oil detection. If you are able to get a snapshot of the wiring connector layout for a 300 series PCB, that would help to advance the cause.

People who are good at solving problems (Dr's, Mechanics) will easily solve this, others who just get a bigger hammer or park their tractor behind the garage, can't: Can you meet this challenge? I've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time I've seen it with numbers. Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you. 7H15 M3554G3 53RV35 7O PR0V3 H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5! 1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5! 1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG 17 WA5 H4RD BU7 N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3 Y0UR M1ND 1S R34D1NG 17 4U70M471C4LLY W17H 0U7 3V3N 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17, B3 PROUD! 0NLY C3R741N P30PL3 C4N R3AD 7H15. PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F U C4N R34D 7H15. To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting! If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too. Can you raed this? Olny 35 people out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it. FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT.

I'm definitely with you guys after watching that video. This tractor turned that slow since I got it, even when it would start. Not saying I didn't have other issues, which should now be fixed, but this thing definitely needs to turn faster. I'm really leaning towards the starter and not towards too much compression. Reason I say that is I would be confident it didn't have too much compression when I bought it and it turned that slow then. I have a new battery in it that has been load tested and I have cleaned all connections from the battery to the starter. I will try the jumper cables again just be sure then I guess this weekend I will pull the starter and attempt to disassemble and clean. Wish me luck and I will post back with results.

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Great gift, and a beautiful looking plow. How you going to get that down the chimney?

Why? You always type like that.

I don't get it looks normal too me :scratchead:

We are still wrenching away. I have been keeping the Facebook page up to date and will try to add to this thread as time permits. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of the club members!

Hello! I joined this forum pretty recently and I'm probably not the typical forum visitor. I build scale models - usually 1/25 cars - and I've been working on an Electro 12 model. BTW, many of the model cars that I build are my favorite car and another South Bend native - Studebakers. I found this site while searching online for reference photos and manuals. It's a great place with a lot of excellent resources. Reminds me a lot of the Studebaker Drivers Club forum where the members have always been very supportive of my model building. Makes me want to have a real Wheel Horse (and a Studebaker). Anyway, this is where it all started: Probably not many people are more interested in the Wheel Horse than they are in the Indy Car but I'm building the tractor and may never build the car. The tractor in the kit appears to be Charger but after looking over this forum for a while I decided to convert it to the Charger's cousin - a 1969 Electro 12. I had already built the engine as it came in the box but I realized it wasn't correct for this tractor. This is what the first build-up looked like: So I stripped the paint off and did a conversion: The next order of business was building a mower deck since the kit didn't have one and what good is a Wheel Horse without it! I downloaded the manual for a 5-1422 (Thank you, Forum!) and started scratchbuilding. This has been a lot of fun! Here are a few shots from the build-up and the finished mower: The paint is Duplicolor Bright Red which is a GM color. I bought some IH Red at Tractor Supply but didn't really like the drying properties of the paint. The GM Red matches it very well and in fact I brushed on a little of the IH color as touch-up paint in a few spots and can't see the difference. Duplicolor is my preferred paint. It dries fast and hard. There's certainly more to come. I hope you enjoy. Most of the other major components are under construction right now and will be ready to post soon.

Well, I have wanted one of these for a LONG time and now I finally have one. This 420 was used. It seems like it was at least taken care of mechanically. The oil was full and pretty clean and the air filter was pretty clean as well. The 20 hp Kohler runs excellent with 250 hrs. on it and its pretty friggin fast!. Cosmetically it could be better.. The paint has some chips and scratches here and there as well as the decals being a little scratched and marked up. The seat has a few tears where you sit. Thankfully I work for a leather company with a 60,000 square foot buiding full of leather so matching it up shouldn't be too difficult. The chrome isn't too bad other than the steering wheel. having EVERYTHING rechromed is pretty much out of the question because I'm pretty sure that will put me in the poor house. I'm not too sure on whether to fully restore it or leave it as a survivor.. I know I won't be able to do it this year as I'm hoping to sell my house this spring if all goes well. There just enough enough room in my current garage to properly restore this tractor. Anyway, here is how it has cleaned up since yesterday...

Just wondering if any of the eight or nine Floridians with Wheelhorses are going to the show in Feb. I am planning on going for the friday 20th show. Post up here. We can meet up somewhere http://www.floridaflywheelers.org/events.html

i did mean the price eric j

Merry Christmas to me. Watch youtube video linked below. Still needs some adjustments. And there is a friction/rubbing/tapping kind of noise that sounds like it's coming from around the flywheel but there is definately nothing contacting right there. Can you hear this? Let me first state that my battery is new and has just recently been load tested. This tractor started when I put a 50 amp bump to it. I DO NOT believe it was spinning the starter any faster though. And after it ran for awhile I shut it off, waited a minute, and it fired right back up without the 50 amp bump. Anyways, watch the video and let me know what you hear. I believe my distant neighbors heard me woohoo!!! Why did it start with a 50 amp bump if it didn't seem like it made the starter spin faster? At least nothing close to as fast as the video included above. Do you hear the friction sound and what do you think that may be? Engine is not running smooth. Video is about 2/3 throttle after it had been running awhile. At idle (no throttle) engine runs smooth. Carb adjustments? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmCMc1shTK4&list=UUSN3o_alk10JkTtW4rMLhYw&index=1

can't beat that with a stick eric j

What type of inlines are you guys using? This year and last year Ohio added a two day, antlerless, muzzleloader in October. The regular muzzleloader season is in January. Too cold for me then. Our archery is September 27- Febuary 1. Our gun season is only one week long and always starts the Monday after Thanksgiving. Nice paper weight Ed, Im sure he will like it. Mark

last summer i traded for a 520. i wanted a 520 for a dedicated snow blower tractor for my 2 stage blower and hopefully ad a cab to it down the road. i was told when i got it that it possibly had a bad trigger on it. my friend that i got it from took as a trade in and hadn't fooled with it. the po had taken it to another dealer and they told the po that it needed a trigger other things and wasn't worth fixing. i thought i was told the coil had been replaced but don't remember for sure. any way i brought it home and cleaned the carb and checked the trigger, it checked out ok so i proceeded to get it fired up and added my 2 stage blower. it ran okay but not great and started harder then i would have liked to have had. i changed the spark plugs out and that helped but didn't correct the hard start especially when cold. when cold you would have to crank and crank on it to get it started. i tried several different things to get it started like spraying carb cleaner in it and nothing helped, finally last sat i tried to start it and almost gave up. i needed to carry a heavy motor out of the back of the shed and the dang thing wouldn't start. ​ i walked away and got another tractor and cart to help hall the motor to my truck and decided to try one more time and luckily it did start. it always would start after the first cold start and it had some stumble when throttling up around mid range rpms. i was so disgusted i was ready to swap motors on it. so i talked to my friend who i got it from and he suggested plug wires and check the coil. i replaced the wires last night and still no start. so i found a used coil that i had laying around and hooked it up and it fired right up. i just went out to the shed and tried it again and it fired right up. so i think i fixed it for now till something else goes lol . so i thought i would share my experience with everyone else and hopefully help somebody else out of a jam since this is my blower tractor i needed to be able to depend on it and i wasn't sure that i could till now. so now i feel a lot better eric j

Thanks SOI! I may have to have the company get a tractor or two... For research of course...

That's the plan. It will be a worker. Replacing the roller pins right now which were pretty worn on one side.

The ground is definitely soft, Bob. Just think, we can start to do the Spring cleanup in about 100 days.

It wasn't that hard. Probably because that's about the way i spill. i'm just thankful for spell check on my computer. Thanks for sharing that Glen.

Could you make a frame out of plywood and attach a piece of clear acrylic?This is from Popular Mechanics in 1980.

Back in the old days when cars had carbs, we would routinely slowly pour water down the carb to decarbon. Of course, all those engines were cast iron and in some cases the intake manifolds were CI as well. It was hard to tell if it ever did any good.

Very nice!!! Congrats!!

I thing somebody should start a hotline!!

Nice to know the symptoms and fix, thanks Eric.

Here is an idea. 312 pulling the 212 with the misses, pulling the ? What is the issue? Problem solved. You have the best of both worlds! . Rob

Sad to say it, but I could read it very well, but my mind runs in strange ways.....I have a hard time with the way people "write" when they text...LOL! ROTFLMAO

its on a cc so it could well be that craig

Great job guys! Especially like the stories about the young guys/gals getting that first deer. I bought a Ruger Compact American 243 for my son and tried to get him out this year but it just never worked out for him to get to go/want to go more than a couple of times. Maybe the passion will take off next year. I did manage to get him to help me with some pics of the one I got with the smoke pole.

Horse Of Ill Repute

Document everything from daily logs to mileage and keep all receipts. There is a lot you can write off

6 Grand is certainly a good hunk of change but who am I to judge. 6 grand wouldn't get you much in the way of a new John Deere or Cub Cadet garden tractor. I have certainly paid the price for things I thought I wouldn't be able to live without thru the yrs. Seniors aren't easy to come by, I think now that this NOS 420 is gone we won't be seeing too many more NOS 420's for sale either.. Another thing to remember is not everyone is into Senior's, maybe he collect's the later tractor's, might even be a member in good standing here.. Now, the real question is.... Will he run it???? And congrats to the new owner! Now clean the friggin dirt off of it!!

deny, deny, deny... OH...OK...I had a hand in it...it may have even been my idea...but Jim thought it was a good idea.

Hmm sorry you had to take the fall for some other "Cohort". I see you have broad shoulders. I know there's an instigator lurking

I hope the SEC isn't added. I can miss plenty of picks with just the Big 10. It pains me to pick any SEC team to win but I will if I think they are going to. But then I still end up pulling for the non SEC team to win. I think I said that right, it's still early.

Even I have to cut the Big 10 some slack AJ. They did get 10 teams in bowl games. If nothing else, they learned how to count and the conference will be named properly for the rest of the year.

I had the privilege of visiting the Arizona memorial during our honeymoon in 2006. There were a few old timers on hand for conversation. Its a beautiful memorial. If you're lucky enough to make the trip please do so as it is deteriorating rapidly. What took my breath away was the video you have to watch before heading out to the memorial. It's a well documented account of the attack. Unfortunately it's portrayed in a manner which describes how Japan had to attack. As though they didn't have a choice. I approached a couple of those old timers w a WTF look. They simply said look around, Hawaii is practically owned by Japan . It's sad how our government allows this nonsense to go on. A total disservice to all those whom fought for our country.

Thought I would share...

Let me also thank you for the absolutely awesome videos you have regarding these transmissions. They are a valuable tool in understanding their inner workings . To be able while working on one to go and watch you doing it and explaining the process is not only a source of confidence boosting but a valuable education. I found your you tube page and bookmarked it so I can immediately have all videos on hand. They definitely should be placed all together somewhere in this forum for everyone to be able to access them on demand without much searching. Thank you very much Stevasaurus .

i'm not going to tell you not to use it but with only 15 hrs on it i would be using it very sparingly. you just don't find a C195 with 15 hrs on it anymore and it looks like those should be original hrs for the machine. if it was mine it would become a show tractor with an occasional work out instead of being my main tractor, even if i had to go buy another tractor to use as my main tractor eric j

Sparky, You asked for it. It's been in another thread to be Identified. Motor sure looks familiar!!! Amazed at what power the little honda five makes. Was towing a utility trailer out front and ended up riding a wheelie right up the side of my work van. Front and back wheels against the van hitch on the ground and motor still running by the time I got up to shut it off. Had to add two weights to the front to hold her down when towing. Weights were the most expensive venture on this tractor. Sometimes have to throw a 50lb bag of mix n fine on the hood too. Learned to leave the trailer jack wheel on the trailer as a wheelie bar. Just crank it up enough to get it off the ground.