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The grandsons needed a little shop time. Together we tuned the exhaust on the 16 hp Briggs. Sounded great but, we eventually cut down the forward pipe. Pitch was a little high.

We have officialy finished the swap of the GT-14 to an 8 speed after alot of work. A lot of fabricating little things made this harder than i thought it was. It should now be a complete beast for pulling my one bottom plow this spring. We got rid of any and all the hydraulics. Going to have to add a manual pick arm at some point.

hi there everyone, I just picked up my first wheel horse on Saturday, an rj-58. I got a seized mower deck, a plow blade, which I think might be from a newer wheel horse. (it has the blade that angles) the best part was I got the cbr sickle for it, and its in really good shape! I have a few green tractors, a bunch of red and silver ones, I thought its time to try a different brand! now I found a lawn ranger not far from me! and so the sickness continues! I'm sure I will be on for questions about the rj, so thanks in advance! - newt

My C-100 pulls all the weight around my house.

There's currently three of 'em... 520H, C-175, and an RJ-58 on call, as we speak.

The old standby -the 1975 B-80 is the workhorse around home !

Here's sum of my herdthese three do most the work 2 commando 8's and a B-60the suburban got used for mowing the yard almost every time last year

Here is a new rj I picked up I put the date codes uo off the transmission and more people say it's a 59 than a 58. date code is either f2-9 or f7-9 tough to tell . how to screenshot on windows free upload photo uploading

Here you go: Tractor music

I believe that plug on the side is the level. Get it sitting on flat ground and remove and see if anything comes out, if it does it should be good, otherwise fill until it runs out. To drain, you just remove one of the lower side plate bolts.

Despite the neck issues I have been plugging away at this project slowly but surely. I managed to get the axle/base sanded, primed and painted. Hope to wrap up the rest of it this weekend. On a side note the Brown Truck delivered these today. New pair of shoes for the 856. After going back and fourth between these and ag's I pulled the trigger on these and better yet they were a present from Santa!!!

My C-101 is on plow duty this winter.

All the Horses work. Impossible to keep the Herd indoors! Two (416-8 1nd 414-8) are on standby and will get their weights 'n chains....whenever?

I know most of you hate the new style idiot proof gas containers with the lack of a good vent when pouring So here are some pictures of what I did to mine. Got the partial idea from someone off the forum. Works great! Drill a hole that matches a valve stem you want to put in. These are pressure fit, so it has to be exact - in my case 1/2 inch. Feed a wire through the hole and out the spout. Take the guts out of the valve stem, attach to the wire and pull up into the hole. Spray some silicone on and attach this to pull it up through, Leave the guts out, put the cap on and remove for pouring. Goes without saying . . .blow out any debris with air so it doesn't end up in you tank. Takes about five minutes

Picked this uo today need help with a few things . it has a clinton 1290 I believe is it an oil bath air filter ? Here is the date code on tranny like to know if it's 58 or 59?

Too bad you had to drop all the hydraulics, an eight speed with hydraulic lift would have been awesome. My ideal tractor.

Look what came up on Craigs list in Pa.

I don't have any real parade tractors. They all run and they all do some work though they are getting specialized in what they do. The mowing C-175 is of my neighbor Lance and his son. The blower is also the same C-175. The 876 was actually a pieced together work of art that had some smoking problems.

Yeah ,what Craig said

If the intake and ex valve seats are not loose in the block, rebuild it. A machine shop can certainly take care of the machining for you, and install a new bushing for the crank.

The Tecky's I had in the 60's would start from the heat generated by the pull rope being pulled a 100 times trying to get it to pop! Maybe I should get another rope cranker. I could skip Cardio Rehab and save money!

all of them,even my show girl pulls a trailer

I used to love ice skating. I don't know which was more fun, the skating or chasin all the local chics on Taylor's pond Yeah, it was the chasin,

while trying to cobb together a dial indicater with a sparkplug bottom at work to time a h60 my buddy asked what i was building after telling him he said i got one u can have for $10 at home i got in a bunch of stuff from neighbor is that luck or what?????????

Welcome to another session of SOI University a recognized institute of higher learning, experimentation, investigation and serious shenanigans are the norm for the day. An old friend called me up to help him work on his lawn tractor - how could I refuse. We tried to get his non wheel horse 11Hp tractor started the other day. I was rewarded with this - a top terminal starter solenoid with symptoms of a good click but no power to the starter. We substituted a good solenoid and the tractor worked fine. I put this one in my pocket and had something to take apart and play with over the rainy weekend. Around here, rain means something comes apart ... A quick trip to the drill press to drill off the heads of the rivets securing the metal frame / base to the housing gets us this far removal of the nuts holding the copper studs and the trigger lead and pressing the studs out from the housing label a few interesting items on the back side of the coil assembly a closer look at the spot welding of the negative coil lead to the grounded body of the solenoid coil closer inspection of the problem area of this solenoid - vaporized contactor studs and contactor disc one contactor stud was really blown away in the area touched by the contactor disc the edges of the studs are vaporized because the disc only touches the studs in a limited area - this tractor also sat for years and the engine had seized - and many attempts were made to start the engine before it was free to turn over. so I cleaned up the contactor studs rotated both studs 180 degrees in the housing to provide a fresh area for the disc to contact flipped the disc over in the plunger mechanism to provide a clean non-pitted surface for the studs to contact and reassembled the parts back to original a few small bolts to attach the bottom ground plate to the body and the solenoid is now fully functional again. So if you have that one off type solenoid or just have to keep stuff original at all costs - this may work out for you. For me, its just a cheap date on a rainy weekend.

What else does a retired guy hafta do with his time but make movies! We Got slammed w 18" last night Chucked this morn and probably will later this Eve. Nothing like more seat time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQKNiU3fOD4&list=UU7wuEBq4kYyHz0ytg3WDv2g

Sometime ago I purchased a Horse that the previous owner setup to tow his boat or camper trailer 'round his property. He used his Horse for one reason, towin'. His setup did not interfere with the Horses stock draw bar just in case he wanted to use his garden trailer. The hitch he fabricated using 1/2" x 2" flat bar. The long arm was mounted under the fender pan sheetmetal using bolts that were 1/2" longer than stock. I removed the bar, saving for who knows what. Never used it, never will. Only posted FYI. Thoughts?

the transmission date codes are subjective it does have a 58 style seat you need to look at the tractor as a hole because over fifty years parts can be changed it's definitely a RJ 1958/59 model Brian

Its the same loader. He listed it on ebay and Craigslist. His 3550 price was a pie in the sky fantasy a dump cart of $100 bills comes with it price I think....

Craig , that first pic would look soooo cool if one day you could line them all up , like they're all emerging from the little shed .

I think you covered it Neil There's just the newer Toro ones to add from 86 on, 200, 300, 400 and 500

The earliest wheel horse tractor were imported to UK in 1958 starting with the RJ58 These are the tractors that were available in UK although most of the early stuff from the 60s is very rare Rj58 Suburban 401 704 854 856 702 Commando 8 Charger Raider Commando 800 GT14 A series Bseries tractors Cseries tractors D series lawn tractors There are a few more that I may have missed and I am sure that others will notify of this but this list should take care of most of the rare models.

Here's another ODD BALL that has a 40 year old tecky powered C-120 that has mowed and blowed snow for me for 25 years. It has never failed to start and it runs perfect. During the 25 years that I have owned it, I have done nothing to the HH120 except change the oil and the air filter.

Yeah F&*% the EPA make it work yourself ... Dang government always trying to keep me from hurting myself Now if I could figure out how to hack my old metal gas can with a metal hose so it doesn't leak I could throw out the plastic one.

Hate to tell you this but 12.2 volts is only about 40% fully charged.

I have a 314-A, 314-8, 314-H, 520 and a 1968 raider 12 and i like them all. My wife wants me to scale back but i can't make myself sell them off. It really is a sickness!

My 416-8 has an adjustable seat bolted directly to the seat pivot plate. On the bottom of the pivot plate are 2 coil springs with with built in bumper pads. With my 200 pounds in the seat the springs are completely bottomed out on the bumpers making the ride pretty darn rough and there are too many pins and screws in my back for any trace of comfort with this set up. I found a set of 520H flat springs, just like my C series have and went to work installing them. Original spring and bumper 520H springs The captive bolts that connect the seat adjuster to the pivot plate had to be cut down and the steel spacers removed in order to attach the flat springs, at the same time 2 new 1 1/2" bumpers were installed to support the pivot plate on the seat pan. This would have worked just fine as is except that the seat switch was depressed all the time. I put one of the original seat springs back to use by attaching it to the seat switch pin so it now holds the seat off the switch when unseated. Some skate board tape protects the seat pan from the spring. The difference in ride quality is like night and day!

I think this is a given... RJ35...

Lawn Rangers

Got the wood done during the week. Three nights in a row I sanded all the pieces by hand with 220, wiped with tack cloth and urethaned. I like the aged look with the shine. Good enough for the project and happy to be using the original wood from the swing. The center holes are the original holes and show there wear but the outer holes are all new. Going to try and get the seat frame done today with the extra supports welded in.

as far as dim lights at night, I remember my grand pappy used to say "yellow teeth? wear a brown tie" tractor translation = dim lights? use the tractor during the daytime until you find the problem.

Here are some more pictures of the progress I made in the last couple days. I just dry-fitted the sheet metal bits on there just to get a feel for the one-inch lift I did on the fenders because I wasn't so sure how well the rear tires would clear. I'm going to be applying some grip tape on the foot rests but I'm not sure if I should do only the bottom section or continue it all the way up to the back of the footrest, by the front of the rear fender. Also, I'm tossing around the idea of painting the 'superstructure', or gauge tower black to match the paint scheme of the 3,4,5-hundred series. Any thoughts?

Here are some more pictures. The 520H found it's way home but needs a little love in the engine department.

Well chaps, no going back now To stick the axles back together, I starting with a bit of notching.. Like so.. Not quite the perfect fit but better to notch out not enough material than take out too much at this stage.. Using one of the old fashioned thick cutting discs as a grinding disc I could remove a little metal at a time and keep it flat.. Until I had a perfect notch.. The overlap is 1 inch by the way.. That's a much better fit To make sure the welds had something to really bite into and fill up all the edges of the joins very deeply V'd. Time to start welding, but it wasn't me who did the welding!! As Nigel's boy Karl is a coded welder and he happened to be about today I asked him if he would be kind enough to weld my axles up for me.. And a grand job he made of it too.. Thanks Karl A finished pair of half shafts The plan was to shrink fit some sleeves over the join but as Karl knows what he is doing with a welder and the extra heat caused by shrink fitting then welding a sleeve could well weaken the shafts, the sleeves will be staying off..

Always a good time... just not in earning it the honor.

Wow, it just keeps gettin nicer! I'll be the first to bust yer chops about the green machine in the corner....

A few more pics, sorry not trying to be a "show off" -I'm just excited about my new toy!