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Just a little more melting and I can try her out on the lawn. The last time I mowed with this tractor was over 40 years ago. It has been in my dad garage all that time. I cleaned it up put a new plug and gas runs great.

Picked up a nice 96' 314-8. Has been well cared for and was in very nice shape. Photo is a little "grainy" since it was dark and there was a reflection from the water (rained all the way home) while I was refueling at the gas station tonight. Thad (Crossed State-Lines and brought back to OH)

Wedge a 2x4 tightly between the collar of the steering wheel and a tree. Punch the rollpin out toward the 2x4.

very cool story! awesome that after sitting all that time all it needed was a plug and fresh gas.

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Wow, how many milk containers do you have to recycle to make one of these transmissions? I guess you could always put it in the bottle crusher at the grocery store when your done with it.

I did a short capture of the stator pulses and the charge pulses coming from the RR unit I repaired. The upper 'scope trace (orange) shows the stator AC into the regulator. The lower trace (white) indicates the battery voltage and the charge pulses the regulator "lets thru" to charge the battery. In the first 40+ seconds, few pulses are seen in the lower trace as the battery is fully charged. At 43 seconds, I placed a drain on the battery and the lower trace fills up with charge pulses. As the battery charges back to 14 volts, the pulses become fewer in number until they virtually disappear when the battery voltage reaches full charge. In this case, I have re-calibrated the RR unit for summer use by lowering the set point to 13.8 volts instead of the previous 14.5 v set point. My theory is the battery will last longer when not subjected to aggressive charging in hot weather. I usually have 2 - 3 hour seat time per cutting session and 13.8 volts to the battery is plenty to maintain proper charge in the summer. In the winter, I will switch over to 15.5 volts to compensate for the shorter use sessions in colder weather. Enjoy

If you do a search, you will find that this has been a much discussed problem with some very creative answers. What's the model number tractor we are talking about?

Make sure you soak it good for a couple of days with PB Blaster. Also use a Roll Pin Punch. you find it will stay on the pin a lot easier and will allow for a more solid blow from your hammer.

After the roll pin is out, the steering wheel might not be easy either. A real PITA for sure!

Sanded,primed,ready for paint

I have purchased two 857's over the last two years. Both have come from the Maryland or south central Pennsylvania area. I will tell you that in my opinion, a nice 857 with accessories, that has been maintained and garage kept, should be valued at a price not unlike those mentioned in the first two responses. If you can get it for less, all the better. My method has always been to take (in cash) the most money you are willing to pay, offer less, and settle somewhere in-between if possible.

All better.

Nice old Horse! Reminds me of my 1st, 40+ years ago. Very cool story, guess the snow helps.

Update.... General Transmission told me they know of the issue with it breaking. But that they will not and don't intend to cover it as a warranty OR ship me the parts and tool to do it myself. They did give me the part numbers and the warehouse phone number to PURCHASE the parts. So..... I called Ariens which is the brand name of the tractor (it says made by Husqvarna / Advanced Yard Products on a sticker under the seat). They said they know of the issue and they offered to cover the full repair if I could bring it to an authorized repair facility. I said sure no prob and they tell me the repair facility is about 10 miles away. At least Ariens stepped up and took care of the issue---I bet they won't be using this Chinese POS for long or have already gone back to Peerless with the aluminum units... My neighbor is thrilled to pieces and said I could have the Honda engine anyways for doing the homework for him. Yippeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! a 390 cc Honda OHV Horizontal Tony

I would guess something is setup wrong with your linkage for the arm movement and as far as it backing down by itself its most likely the rivet that "squeezes" the throttle arm. over time they don't squeeze as much as they used to and the tractor vibrations make it back off, really annoying isn't it? I had one doing that until I fixed it by drilling out the rivet and replacing with a 1/4-20 bolt, bronze washers, and nylock nuts. this method is easy to fix and then has the ability to be adjusted or retightened if needed.

Awesome that it's still in the family... hopefully it'll always stay that way too. .

Very neat story, good luck with your refound tractor! On the down side....look at all that snow.......

From my notes on my 1988 42" Rear Discharge Deck Blades 14-4879 (3 blade pack) or 3 ea of 79-2920 Blades are 14-1/2 in. long, Some suppliers are selling shorter blades (Gator) ------------------------ Deck Belt is 106125 PTO to Mower Deck Belt The 42" rear discharge uses Toro 108834 [1/2"x98"], 6898 Gates 1/2"x98", 4L980W Napa 1/2"x98", 248-098 Stens 1/2"x98" ---------------------------- PTO belt is Toro 108834 [1/2"x98"] 6898 Gates 1/2"x98" 4L980W Napa 1/2"x98" Spindle belt Toro 6738 {HA/4Lx86"} 6886 Gates 1/2"x86" 4L860W Napa 1/2"x86" ---------------------------- Be careful with blades, Many after market suppliers will sell you the blades from the 42in side discharge deck. Those blades are 14" long and if used will leave a gap of uncut grass between the blade. Ask me how I know.

Agreed! I like collecting wheel horses but on my craigslist, theres hardly anything cheap except the clunkers and ones with no motors. When there is a cheap one on there that has potential and I could fix up and restore, I buy it. Last one I got was a wheel horse raider 10 with a good running Tecumseh motor. It has 4 wheel horse tires and a brinley plow hitch. Only paid $150.00 for it. Guy that I bought it off of said the hitch was worth that. In my opinion that was a good buy.

Congrats to you BB gurus who picked correctly

Your VAC is fine, No need to troubleshoot that aspect any further. The RR unit converts AC from the stator to pulsating DC to charge the battery. The RR "chops off" half the VAC.In your case, 38 VAC gets cut into just the positive half of 38 VAC or 19 VDC pulsating DC. Bottom line, if your VAC was too low, you would never have enough VAC to be chopped in half to create and regulate to 14.5 VDC. The RR allows the 19 VDC pulses to pass into battery until the RR senses VDC at the battery to be at the set point - or around 14.5 VDC. When the battery VDC reaches the set point of the RR - the charging pulses are stopped.

The Kohler v twin engines had lots of coil issues in the early years. they used an unshielded transistor and any kind of RF interference would blow the transistor the ignition coil numbers would end in - 01 - 02 etc. Check the numbers on the ignition coils if they are not an old 3 check with your dealer 01 and 02 I know for sure were issued with the bad transistors. the city of Bloomington Illinois had 8 walk behind Toros they kept blowing the coils found out it was the handheld FM radios they used. The -03 series coils cued the problem.

Picked up what I believe is a 754 but the shifter decal is gone. The 7hp Kohler is correct by the numbers according to TT's list. It's definAtely a 64 with the steering wheel, toolbox, fenders, 5 lug hubs and key start. Is this enough to prove its a 754? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes 754's do exist! Here is the memo from Wheel Horse announcing their introduction in the Spring '64.

Yup. After the "Hoarders" buy everything up the deals start to get scarce.

The plan is to be there... The 35 is almost done... adjusting the veri drive system as we speak, LOL!

I have a spare #5025 3-speed uni-drive in the garage. From the end of the axle to the start of the key way is 3/4"

Shouldn't this have been posted in the 'funnies' section? Every part on that thing looks cheap. from what I found they have factories in Mexico, France and China. I hope you can do something with it so you get the engine.

Sparky sums up a lot of my feelings on the skid steers, the 6ply feels like they are solid rubber and I only carry around 12 psi in them. Another factor - possibly just me, but they just dont look like they belong on my horse!! Now that I have these ags on the 160 I'll probably delegate the 180 with the skid steers to lawn duty and put the 160 doing the 'dirty' work. I just had the timber guys in to clear the pine trees (pine beetles were getting them anyway) off my property and boy o boy did that leave a mess! so those new ags are gonna get a good trial run.

Had the rear hydraulic welded hope it holds up

I was in the market for a steel floor 16-18 footer to haul the occasional tractor but more for my truck hobby... I think I went a little over-board???

Cod: I too have used spray on Oven Cleaner to de-carbon aluminum heads on several K161 and K181 engines. I find it works best if the head is warm before you apply it. Let it sit 20 minutes and rinse - any carbon left is easily removed with a Scothbrite pad. Bill

This is my reason. This is my grandpa and myself at 1year old in the top picture. 26 years later grandpa took another photo with my twin boys on the same tractor which I now have. Not 6 months after the last picture grandpa passed away.

Here is the reason - a family history since 1961 of owning Wheel Horse Garden Tractors! My dad, my brother and I do this! I even got my wife Ruth to like one model -the 1958 RJ ! 1961 50 years later!