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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?????????

Ok, I think it is time that my C-165 get a fresh change of work clothes. I've had her since I was thirteen, and seventeen years later I feel that she has deserved a makeover: rebuilt engine, new ag tires on all four corners, new paint and decals, new Hobbs hour meter, and a custom hitch I made from an extra hitch off my Crown Victoria.

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

Ill have to get some pictures tommorow. And im sure there was a way to keep the hydraulics but i didnt want to mess around with it. Would have been a nice beast with hydraulic lift!

Hello from Northern Illinois! My father gave me his pride and joy this week, I loved driving this tractor in the 70's and 80's when I was a young kid. My father tells me when he purchased the tractor in 1968 that they installed an electric starter kit complete with cigarette lighter, they replaced the rear bushings with bearings , installed lights at the dealership but were not made by Wheel Horse. He also purchased the chrome wheel covers, dozer blade, mowing deck and snow blade. He also mentioned at the time of his purchase that they gave you a Wheel Horse push mower but it did not stand up to the test of time. When the dealership shut down my father was able to get his hands on several spare parts for this tractor. I was digging through all the paperwork and found several manuals for this tractor as well as many other models. I would love to hear more info and facts on this tractor! In the coming year I think we will be doing a complete restoration, so any ideas and suggestions are very welcome.

I like the hard head squad

I think that's the third one I've seen lately... just recently saw another one on C/L too.

Ummm.... some please?

Its sold on ebay for $1500+. I was bidding until it got to 750 then I decided it wasnt worth it to me

For 3350.00 it better be Kryptonite!

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 .

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.

Electrical gurus.....................any advice removing the pins from a bad main engine connector on an Onan P220/520-H? They are really in there! Really really in there! I have a crimper, and a Molex .093" connector kit with the 9 pin connectors I need. The extractor won't budge them. The red wire on the male connector melted away and or snapped off. This will hold me up swapping engines. Or at least trying!

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.

I know I'm an odd ball,and a lot of the guys on hear that know me will say Amen to that,but I like Tecumseh engines.I own several.Give me a PM if you want to sell it.

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.

I believe squonk is correct. I forget where I read it years ago, one of the battery or charger manufacturers, maybe Yuasa, Interstate or Battery Tender. They consider 11.4 volts completely discharged, 12.9 volts fully charged, anything in between is proportional. Your 12.2 volts is about 50% charged, maybe enough to start your tractor but not much more.

OK, now I have somethng else to add to my "Bucket List". In 24 years of owning and driving Wheel Horses, I have never once given thought to driving one on a frozen body of water like a pond, lake or river!!! Threads like this are another terrific reason for being a membr of Red Square! Thank you kiotikin for starting this thread and posting some great pics!

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

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

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?

I put fenders on mine, I think they came off a 702. Now that my kids have out grown the sulky and you'd never catch my wife on one I turned mine into a wood hauler...

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.

wax on flat olive camo would be hard to buff off

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