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I got to use Oxford today after all. This looks sort of crazy but here I am cutting a path for the fuel delivery driver that should be coming this week. Just trying to be nice and snowblowing - my lawn.

I've read of many ways to clean a carb. Here's what I do and it works very well 99.9% of the time. Disassemble completely-place in an empty coffee can-pour in enough Strypeeze Paint and VARNISH remover to cover the carb and let it soak for a couple of hours or overnight. Remove and rinse with HOT water then spray with carb cleaner in all the small orifices and blow off with compressed air. Even if this is one of those carbs that is green and stinks to high heaven it will come out looking BRAND NEW. slantram

6 soldiers pull up on a main street in Halifax, Nova Scotia as part of a parade. They're in a standard issue WWII type Willys Jeep. In the span of about 4 minutes they completely disassemble the vehicle and reassemble it and drive off in it fully operable! The idea being to show the genius that went into the making of the jeep and its basic simplicity. Click below..... Willys Jeep A little more on this same Jeep: And a short history lesson from 1943:

John, I think he meant that model was raced longer than any other. I still really enjoy NASCAR but I do miss the days when a Ford and a Chevy were Fords and Chevys and they had to build 500 for street use. These days the cars they run resemble the factory cars like a Piper resembles the space shuttle.

Not trying to get an argument but I have to believe that there were alot of earlier cars that were probably quite a bit longer. Shall we say the Plymouth "Superbird" or even the Mercury Cyclone or Ford Torino are just a couple of them. Always happy when a Ford wins!!!

So here is the finished seat. You can tell from the before pics that this one really needed to be redone. The guy that I had do the work is an absolute Old world craftsmanship professional, I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. I was able to do some bartering etc. so I got a fantastic deal but if one was to just walk in the door and want this done you'd be looking at somewhere in the area of 700 bucks. So... to the guys that own a 420 you better make sure you take care of your seat and use a good quality conditioner on it. I'm also having a seat cover made for it for when I'm hauling the tractor in case it rains (and to protect it from the sun) and just in case a bird decides to poop on it..I really haven't stopped detailing this tractor since the day I got it, it has no doubt come a long way. Now that there is nice soft leather on the seat it is much more comfy!

They had a Massey 30 at our local Steam Pageant. They drove it into a building and 5 guys tore it all apart and reassembled it in 30 min.

Fuel delivery driver here- we appreciate those paths ( a lot less snow in the boots and easier walk/drag to the fill/tank )

Looking a the MSDS it looks like that solvent would work well, as long as it is not the gel........ I use an acetone, Methyle Ethyle Keytone, & laquer thinner overnight in an ultrasonic vibrator (the cheap ones from harbor freight), then rinse in krud kutter & hot water. Then switch over to a hydocloric acid and warm water until it starts to slightly darken the aluminum. The reason for this is I want all orgainic stuff tucked inside all the passages to be eaten alive. You need an acid to do this.

One of my MANY Chevy's was this 70 Monte. It was an original 402 big block 4 speed car.

Was pushing snow through the whole race... pushed 138 miles worth, and never left the main gate area of post.

I agree, it ain't what it used to be. I was once a DIE HARD fan but when my guy died on the last lap of the Daytona 500 back in 2001 I lost a lot of interest. All the old school guys are gone and we are left mostly with a bunch of whiney sissy boys. I do pull for Earnhardt Junior and Tony Stewart when I watch, two of the only guys that are close to old school. Shoot, Tony Stewart won a championship a few yrs. ago as team owner/driver which is unheard of these days. I would have puked if Jimmy Johnson won. I really don't know why I can't stand him, I have always thought he is just an average driver in wicked awesome cars. He never had to pull out a win in a junk car on a mediocre team. Since the day he arrived he has had nothing but the best equipment. Back almost 20 yrs. ago I met and talked with Ray Evernham for a few minutes. Being an Earnhardt fan I wasn't a big Gordon fan but my son Jesse was! We all saw each at about the same time and Jesse started shouting Ray! Ray! Ray! and pointing at him. Ray thought that was the coolest thing and walked right up and talked a bit with us. Man did that make Jesse's day. Heck of a nice guy! On our week long vacation in North Carolina we visited at least 20 Nascar shops. BY FAR the nicest people were in Gordon's shop and Earnhardt's shop at Richard Childress racing where by chance we got to meet Chocolate Myers! Myer's really liked my car..

I haven't watched a race since Harry Gant retired. I tried but most of the drivers I grew up with weren't around anymore: Kulwicki, Trickle, Parsons, Hensley. So much has changed, not a fan anymore. To me it ain't what it used to be.

three blade mower deck for a RJ35 Brian

Well I started on another project yesterday, really should finish some others first but didn't have anything to do for the day, and this one was on the list of future restorations. I picked up the 400 at the big show from Scott Mehlberg as just a roller, and found most of the parts it needed at the show or already had them. I got it complete and running, and now I'm going to make it nice, the hood and fenders had been repainted, but weren't very nice, they were just rattle can and the hood had fish eyes in the paint. Here's a shot of it as I got it together and complete, not sure if I'm going to use the weight, think I like it better without but that may change down to just a roller and most of the parts are in this pile I won't be using the motor or trans out of this tractor, I already had a motor torn part way apart that will be going in this, don't have any pictures of it yet as its in a couple different locations....and the trans is already done and it was in its own seperate topic in the transmission section Hope to get most everything blasted tomorrow besides wheels, frame and hood, and start on body work, this will probably be a slow project, but should be able to get most of the body work done in the next month or so as its not in too bad of shape.Will add more pictures as I go along. Thanks, Jake

Way Cool... ... and That's why I drive Jeep..

Back in the day.

Fig 3, that ring part. It fits very snugly against the pinions. The pinions turn the gear affixed to axel. Basically I would say the ring is just a powerful resistance against rotation of pinions, sorta the inverse if you were to grab the chuck of a drill to stop or close/open it Inside free and immovable on rotation but starts drawing closed with resistance from hand. Prob bad analogy. I believe if it is badly worn, broken, or just lost spring it would be ineffective. Did you look at Steve's on the limited slip. He makes it look easy getting that ring in, but it is STOUT. I've not run mine, only assembled diff.

Tombr77...you never want to use belt grip on the transmission belt. The belt is designed to fit down into the grooves of the pulleys and grab...but when you step on the clutch pedal, you are taking the tension off the belt (by a tension pulley under the guard) and the guard funnels the slack in the belt toward the engine pulley and the transmission input pulley stops. This makes it possible for shifting the transmission without grinding gears. You now need to take some mineral spirits and clean the grooves on all 3 pulleys (engine, trans and tension pulleys). You might even want to wipe down your new belt. If you bought the right size belt, that should fix your problems. Now for the limited slip. The oil has nothing to do with it...except lubrication. If you drain out your oil...take of the seat and fenders...use one of the seat bolt holes to re-fill. Use 90wt oil and fill until the oil comes out the fill hole located by (I think) left rear axle. About 2 1/2 to 3 pints. The spring keeps the pinions (which are free floating...not on a post) in their respective places. If the spring was broke, you would know it by the grinding sound and possibly locked up trans. This is not posi-traction like on a car. If you want to find out if yours is working...put the front of your horse against a tree with the rear wheels on something slippery...like ice. Both wheels should turn...all of the other wheel horse "stick shift" tractors would just have one wheel spinning.

I'd replace it with a solid plug as well.

My friend I bought my tractor from called and said he had something for me. It's amazing this stuff survived four owners in 46 years in new condition. It was quite a surprise when we met up!

Th I think your right, it will be replaced. It's funny what you find when cleaning dirt, crap, and grease off these old tractors, you wonder what people were thinking...

I've never seen that. The shifter certainly isn't an airtight fit. I think it would be a good idea to replace it.

Member Srevasaurus Steve is the expert on these and has this video showing rebuild, As far as how they work, I too am spmewhat perplexed. It appears only a spring type ring between 5 pinions keeps both axels in unison till tension overcomes it. Prob I'm wrong but my thought is with belt off, rear jacked up, out of gear, turning one wheel both should turn same direction lika a automotive type. If you hold one and turn other in neutral, you should feel a fairly strong resistance. Autos (some)(towards end of clurctes life) have a low end around 75 ft lbs torque with other wheel locked down. Broken teeth could completely stop till reach point where picks back up, to lock up to complete rotation, to really rough sequential grinding/bumping/rough sound rather than once in a while and would most likely occur flat/up hill or down hill load or no load conditions. Try jacking both wheels up, secure on stands and run, listen to sound. Also check oil (drain a bit) to see not milky or evidence of water intrusion. Let us know what you find. A tear down may be needed>

While rebuilding the column mounted motion control on my 416-H, I found every Nyliner bushing in the linkage was either missing or worn badly.

Ken, seat looks very nice, actually the whole tractor looks very nice.... Well done keeping it in its original clothes as much as possible. I think you did well reviving one that hadn't had the best of care in its 'past life'. Like you said about others looking after their seats, weathered paint can be brought back, but when the seat looks like yours did, the only way out is to do what you did. Definitely finishes it off while keeping the look 'oem'......

Wow Ken, That is beautiful. I tried a couple times to do a set of decals for you with no luck at all but the originals on yours look very very good. I agree with everyone else on keeping it as is. About 3 years ago I went through a whole roll of chrome and laminate and got 2 sets that were just OK. not perfect. I gave them to a friend who was making a backup spare hood for his. Cant wait to see yours at the show this summer.

Volts is just the beginning. Different bulbs that fit in the same socket may have different amp draw thus running hotter or cooler. Like squonk I work around 12v bulbs every day(school bus mechanic) We frequently pull out high draw destination sign bulbs and replace with lower drawing bulbs to make life easier on the wiring and circuit breakers. I know 53 bulbs are still made because we use them in the gear selector consoles. 1445 bulbs draw roughly 140ma vs 53 bulbs draw 120ma , not much difference so you should be ok. also 1445 has twice as much hour rating. Steve

yes they should just make sure you get the correct side.

Thanks all for the comments...got a pretty good start on it today. Blasted everything on it I'm going to use other than the frame, hoodstand, hood and fenders, those will have to be done at the shop with the bigger blaster...the paint don't want to come off very easily on the fenders or hoodstand Got all these blasted, and any pits filled, these are now ready for primer and to be sanded. The clutch pedal and hitch have already been done once as I started on them in a batch of my 58 parts as I had spares laying around. Also these are now ready for paint

I took this about 2 or 3 weeks ago. About an inch of stuff to clean up. Just having fun! Of course, this was the last time I will be using my 310-8 until the spring. I was having serious trouble finding gears (listen for some grinds ), and while I'm sure the fix isn't too hard (I think it's just the roll pin on the shifter) It is just too cold right now and I don't have enough space to tear down the back end of the tractor to fix it. Sorry about the filter, I had my phone on the wrong setting. it just made the whole ground tough to see. You can see what I'm plowing though, for the most part! Last night we got about 5" of snow, and then it slowly got warmer as the day went on, making the snow nice and heavy. Good use for the Work Horse with the blower!

I havn't got many new tractors in lately, at least nothing to post about, but this mini haul has a couple nice pieces in it, guy wanted it all to go to one buyer, and I was it, and only 45 min drive from home, and yes most will be up fore sale sometime, the main thing that caught my eye in the pics I seen was the 603 that looked pretty good, and I was pretty happy to find it looks like a complete unmolested survivor, and was told it was running when parked years ago, but had carb issues, common to Tecumsehs it's too cold to mess with it much but everything looks to be there and all orig. and other than a few dings and surface rust all in nice shape, except the deck that has a few holes, the Suburban 400 has a little newer 6hp Tecumseh in it I have not ran the numbers yet, tractor has been fixed up at some point, he was plowing with it last winter when the trans locked up, he said it runs great, he just put some money in the engine all new governor parts and gaskets along with a carb rebuild, gas tank looks like new inside, seat is very nice, overall a pretty nice machine, then I got boxes of spare parts a parts RJ58 tag is mostly there on it hood is fixable, some nice extra ag tires, duel wheel spacers, mower deck for the 400, lots of little stuff, I kinda miss getting the big hauls, so I guess small ones like this will have to do, til the next big one comes along. enjoy the pics

Don't forget IF you use lead there are special prep things needed before painting and primers not RATTLE can stuff, if not done your paint job will show it, to buy the tools and supplies to do a CORRECT lead job will cost you more than you think, blast the pits and use a good grade of Auto body filler/Bondo, were not working with bondo from the 70's the stuff now days is easy and good stuff, you can buy a gallon that will last most of you a life time, not that it will be good that long, for under $40 try to buy it from a shop that sells paint supplies, they will have better grades of filler, NOT walmart or Auto Zone

Well that explains a lot right there!

I'm not a big race fan but ended up watching part of it. It was nice to see a Connecticut native won! Mike........

my 212-6, took off blower because i like plowing better.

thank you,,,,,keeps my faith up. My kids are like that to. Glenn

My newly gone over rebuilt 310-8 doing a fine job .

Ezra has worked hard this winter. The first time in 42 years he has seen snow. Only problem there is no more room to put it. Had 6" of concrete in the driveway so he had to plow it all into a big pile in the street. Elvis came out and moved the mountain off to the side.

Just wanted to share a cartoon drawing of my 1977 Wheel Horse pulling tractor that was done by artist Donnie Dana of New York. Three pics posted are the line drawing, colored version, and the original photograph used by Donnie to make the drawing.

We got 2" of the fluff this AM. All the excuse I needed to take a ride in the 520s warm cab.

Got my d250 all set up. Had my first snow with it the other day. All i have to say is wow this thing is a beast. Supposed to get more tonight. Ill try to get the wife to take a video of this thing in action

For me will be my Trusty C-81 with Plow and my GT14 with Snow Blower. If they fail then I'm packing up and going to Florida.....

These guys received the call to arms today.

We got about 16" from Marcus. I only was "Allowed" an hour" After work last night to plow so out came the 160 and blower for a quick blitz job so we could get in and out. Scraped today and pushed as far as I could. Not much area to put snow with a blower either near the garage, so out came Elvis again and I ended up moving the piles I made Sat. and then some!

310-8 get er done

Kicked back some piles with Elvis to make room for more of the white stuff!

A loader would be a fine accessory for you, then a three point, then a swept front axle, then a backhoe, then tracks....................