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Ok, need more advice. I've got an original shower head muffler, with some corrosion/cracks on the front. I've got a hotdog muffler on Emory's 60 suburban, but like the looks of the original style muffler (even though it has a HF motor on it). Given the shape of the tractor, should I put the shower head on or leave the hotdog on?

Sneak peek of what just drove off the trailer under its own power. The flaky floorboard is bedliner spray that didn't stick. I need to adjust the motion control lever, but it's ready to mow with a 42"RD deck.

Well as the title suggests, my Grandfather had a truck. as a young kid I rode in the truck with him as we would get break fast from a Pancake house early in the morning as we visited them in Pennsylvania in the summer. That truck was one of the most exciting things to see when we would visit. 8 Years ago they moved to a retirement center and sold the Truck to a neighbors brother who owned a Garage for truck repair for $1000. Now just last week we called the neighbor, called the garage, and found the owner the garage sold the truck to...for $2000. So we called the current owner who used it as a work truck off the road in a little backwoods nursery. Anyways, I bought it for $1000. 500 from me, 200 from my parents, and 300 from my grandparents. Needless to say i was very happy. 1988 F250 HD 2WD Open Diff. 4.9L/300CI Inline 6 C6 auto (3 speed) Reg. Cab LB Dual 19 Gal. Tanks Embossed "F O R D" Logo on TailGate est. 160,000 miles Factory working A/C, and questionable radio manual and smokers windows

Thanks sparky I will be getting it in one week!

Straight trade after he shows it running and moving. blade up and down push a car with it

Hello everyone, I have finally joined Red Square after several weeks of reading posts and looking at the awesome pictures everyone posts of their WH’s. I guess you could say I need a place where I can talk to people who have the same “addiction†as me because I can tell you my wife is about ready to make me move out to the garage if I don’t stop talking about WH’s to her. Anyway, I just wanted to post my summer project I just completed two weeks ago. My dad gave me a 1983 Wheel Horse GT-1642 Work Horse back in May. He didn’t have any use for it sitting around his house after he stole the deck off it for his 520 (I owe my dad and my uncle for getting me hooked on Wheel Horses). The tractor was in pretty rough shape so I figured I would give it a go and see how I could do restoring the old beast. I completely stripped it down and got the frame and wheels painted just in time for the big show in Aredntsville. I put the rusty sheet metal back on the frame so I had it to ride around the grounds. The next week I stripped it back down to the wheels and chassis. I sand blasted all the sheet metal down to bare metal so I have a fresh rust free surface to work with. Once all the body prep work was done, I primed it with Rustoleum rust prohibiting primer and then shot it with Rustoleum Smoke Grey oil based enamel. I know the color is a darker than the way they came from South Bend but I liked the color on the tractor. I ordered new decals from Redo Your Horse, which the quality is absolutely amazing!! After some wet sanding and buffing I assembled it back together, stickered it, installed a new seat, and I have been using is to pull my lawn sweep after I mow with the 520. It’s a blast to drive. This is an awesome forum site!!! Thanks for letting me share!!

Ya I like my cars too. We're all kinda like bro's in a fish bowl here!! Some other habits I have.

All set, now onto the 400 hood!

Just figured out how to upload more pics! Here is one of Emory at our tractor club's summer show parked next to one of the biggest tractors at the show! I also uploaded a pic of him on my other toy, a 52 ford 8n.

Go in the manuals section and download a Kohler engine manual. It will cover how to adjust the carb. You should fix that link and adjust the governor too which is also covered in the manual

So I've posted a few times already and been given great advice...figured I would start my own rebuild thread... engine is is strong so hoping to mess with it as little as possible. Goal is to wire wheel everything, paint, put together and get this tractor back to work. Late the last night got my wheel off, only took an hour....today pulled my tool box, which is welded to the gas tank stand as a whole piece. Frankly at this point I'm feeling intimidated lol. I'll be needing fresh wires, fuel line, and choke and throttle cables if anyone wants to recommend me on that stuff.

Yeah, believe it or not I actually did straighten out some to get the horses in! I had been using the garage for a wood shop for my craft business. I've quit woodworking for a while after the loss of my mom. Decided to spend more time with dad on his farm and working on horses with my son. Hopefully I can finish tidying up next spring. Tankman are you volunteering to help out?

Apply the decals, install the lights... then, to sweeten the deal...he can add the $250.

For anyone who just wants closure ....I ordered the 7.5 HP, 208 Single Phase, Pressure Lubricated Two Stage Compressor Model 371CS80VCA. When I spoke to the distributor, When that they build this model in Alabama, They start with a rolling Stock bin with all parts necessary to build entire unit and a two person team builds the entire compressor. He indicated that if need be they can determine who that team was etc. I imagine that this adds significantly to build quality and accountability. As the distributor carries about 25-30 brands, i was impressed at his knowledge on a particular brand and his enthusiasm for the particular product I had chosen. The option to order on line was available but I wantedto do it person to person via phone to mitigate any potential issues withj the delivery via a lift gate. At ~ 800 pounds with crating, I dont want to try and get that off back of trailer. ~ 10 days to 2 weeks to manufacture and deliver. Hopefully we get some warm weather so i can rewire the Garage and be ready for spring to test it in action so to speak.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - just good folks. I belong to a local tractor club and everyone is the same - great group of people. No offense to anyone, but lots different than most car clubs I've been around - no competition, just good fun!

No apology necessary. I need a fire under my butt the one I have is too small for the temps we are having. I commute 53 miles one way to the office and some jobs are 120+ miles from home. Some days I only have an hour or so to work and it takes longer than that to get the shop warm enough for me to get my hands out of my pockets.lol

Maybe something like this Bob? Great Idea.

Hello. I've never owned any Wheel Horse before, but I had an electrician do some work on my farm and he mentioned two that he had for-sale cheap. So I looked at them and bought them immediately. He wanted $300 for both and I couldn't pass them up. The Commando 7 we got as a gift for our 13 year old daughter. It runs, but I need to do some tuneup as there is gas dripping from the carb. The D-160 will be useful around the farm. It runs, but it starts extremely hard when cold and the power seems a bit low to me, even when the motor and hydro is warmed up. Is that normal for these? All I have for comparison is a Kohler 20 hp magnum that starts immediately even in cold weather with no choke above 32 degrees.

Traded a Craftsman 42 inch tractor, one like this - but used a whole more - and two more junkers of the same model that would be good for parts. for this bad boy. I think it was a good trade.

here are the pics here the wheel horse c-120 with the golden wisconsin engine wheel horse 416-8 wheel horse c-111 wheel horse 1257 wheel horse c-81 wheel horse 417 A with a 18 hp kohler engine wheel horse commando 7 more pics from the other horses comes later

Look at this diagram from TP Tools. Use metal piping and get that filter away from the compressor. You need the air to cool to so the moisture will condense and the filter will trap it. Lots of good reading about solving moisture problems in their catalog. http://www.tptools.com/

Very rare to find a new one. Last one I saw on eBay went for over $100.00.

I think you are spot on Brian. The turned one does have some subtle differences, so the casting is different and beefed up for the bull gear. The casting had to be close to fit in the transmission and use the same spiders. I think there may be enough there to turn all this and< if you could find the bull gear, be able to mount it on an older casting...thus saving the transmission. I have a 2 piece transmission open...let me check that bull gear and see if it is the same. The bull gear is exactly the same in the 5025 (2 piece, 3 speed, uni-drive), as in the 5010 2 piece differential. WH #3906. The bolt holes line up, same teeth...it is the same. This might mean that you could take a 3 piece bull gear differential,(with broken teeth) machine it to accept a WH #3906 bull gear from a say 702 tractor transmission.

#40 roller chain. Tractor Supply will have it or order online

Oh, I will! I just happen to be just as crazy, LOL.

Then I am probably wrong. I was talking about the width of the two parts above. I thought the one on the left was a gear before they cut the teeth into it, but if it is smaller, that can't be correct. And now that I look again, the distance between the 4 holes around the center hub are farther from the teeth that from the turned, drilled, and tapped(?) part on the left one, so it is probably not left over blanks. Looks like they just used the same mold, after modifications, to cast the one on the left.

I really don't have any solid plans for what I would use it for. I have horses now, a 312-8 and 312H. I use the 312-8 to mow the grass and I picked up the 312H to have something to work on. I enjoy taking them apart, cleaning, and fixing them...Call me crazy. My snow blower is great for cleaning up my fairly small driveway. The only purpose I have in the winter with the tractors is moving in firewood. So I guess the only reason I'd want to get the D is to learn a new tractor and fix it up a little bit and probably sell it down the road. I see what your saying about getting rid of a good one for one I know nothing about, thats why I posted on here and I appreciate it (didn't really think of it that way)! I plan on getting rid of the 312H regardless once someone decides they want to buy it. I'm still fairly new to the wheel horse game so I'm just trying to learn more about the different models. Its purely a hobby for me as i said before, I don't plow or snowplow with them. It's purely a hobby to work on them with my spare time.

Adjust the small black one till it idles rather slow. Now adjust the one on the left till it idles at its best. You may have to go back and forth a few times if the speed changes much. Now set the correct idle speed. Next, open the throttle quickly and see if it responds well, if not you may have to adjust the other one. Always err on the rich side (counterclockwise) because way too lean can burn valves.

Agreed on the straight trade (and even that isnt 'gloat' worthy') The D's are a brute of a tractor when every thing is good (I have 4 of them that I dearly LOVE!), but have a couple pretty glaring weak points - steering and the Sundstrand drive. Steering not too bad a fix, but the tranny is a pretty intensive work project with some scarcity of parts. Does the tractor run?? If not and the tranny cant be checked out, then I have second thoughts on an even trade Also with no deck and no 3 point really knocks the value, the 3 point is one of the great features on the "Big D's" By the way, as far as I know the D-160 didnt have the Kohler twin like shown on this one, only had a Kohler 16hp single and an Onan for engines. So it is probably a D-180 or an 18 Automatic.

I don't think I would trade with cash maybe straight across

I have to completely agree. Great folks here, absolutely. I am a member of a few other forums, (RVs, bluegrass music, IMDB, and some others, and this is the best forum of all. After hanging around here for a year or so, I became a supporter today. I've been intending to do it for a long time. I've also had experience with the car clubs, shows, meets. Most of them are pretty good folks but there are all kinds. I've been in bluegrass music all my life and those folks are just like family. Red Square is that way too!

Just to add my 2 cents, talked with a friend that personally knows a bearing manufacturer to see if he would, or could tool-up to start making this bearing again. The manufacturer came back with this: my buddy says :that bearing has been a very controversial bearing since it was made back in the late 30s he thinks , the problem with them is the ball itself is so small and covers such wide range of heavy applications from farm and garden tractors/equipment, low speed use it just can not hold up . They basically outlawed em based on being unable to get longevity out of em, so therefor were forced to produce them until anything with them being used in was well past warranty . he said he thinks they were forced to keep making them available for 15 years past the date of last pc of equipment sold using em . He will not make them ,and suggests adapting application to a more substantial brg based on your application ,even if it means having to go to oil light brass ?

16 hp 2-cyl Briggs. No dial-a-height, eBay I got one $10. Installed easily. The Briggs runs fine after I cleaned the carb. I just got a Work Horse 1642 a year ago. Seems to be a "Wheel Horse" all the way. I didn't care for all gray so Rustoleum Regal Red on the belt guards.

I got snowed out of work yesterday - - and so I decided to gather up some Wheelhorses. The one I traded for - see original post - was the first one I brought in. Then I went to our family's old barn and gathered up these two pieces of GT-14s. They have been in the barn for about 20 years. I may have enough parts to get two GT-14s going. And maybe not.

They don't offer free maintenance. Maybe I should register it in PA. I'm so close. But then again, I bought it in Maryland. Never mind.

I had one that was solid, drilled it out and used a bolt like that with some wave washers for some tension...

Very nice Horse! For the foot rests, easy to apply, inexpensive and stays put! Coarse skateboard grip tape! One piece will do both footrests. http://www.evo.com/mob-grip-tape-sheet.aspx The wheel assist knobs are illegal in some states when used in highway vehicles. My opinion? Overkill and just get in the way. I think Chivas Regal works best.

Make sure your PTO rod is set up quite tight for powering this monster. A slipping clutch for some reason squeals on the Wheel Horses. Cleat

With the gear reduction steering it's actually really easy. The only downside to the knob is my belly gets in the way! I need to fab up some extended seat rails for this 520 and the 416.

As with anything that you want to sell, you must have a price in mind that you would be happy with. Start there and ask yourself if you would buy it from someone else for that price.

I found what i was looking for but will add this drawing just in case i'm not the only one looking for it.

Thank you very much, Terry, I know compared to these other tractors, mine is not that all pretty, but I really enjoy it the way it is for now.

Terry, that is awesome! I love what you added. Thank you so much.

I believe that some new replacement throttles have solid rivets, so if you have one of those some drilling may be required. Here is a photo of a screw thru a hollow rivet:

In years past, Installing tire chains in sub freezing temps, getting up several hours early to get to work, and dreading the work ahead when I got home was punishment. But now, I can sit inside and watch this beautiful snow fall while enjoying my coffee and honey soaked bagel. When the snow stops this afternoon, I will get a few hours of seat time inside the heated cab of the 520H clearing snow from the neighborhoods driveways and may even have enough time to take a walk on the big shoes. Snowstorms for a retired old guy with plenty of horses is not punishment.

Sure is nice seeing members selling nice tractors to other members and giving the kids trinkets.... sure does say alot about horse folks! thanks for the

Close Brian. I think you are right about using the blanks, but they are not the same size. The turned one is just over 5" dia, and the one with the teeth is just over 5 3/4" dia. It does not make since to cut off the teeth though if you have the blank.

not sure but one is high speed fuel adjustment and other is low speed fuel adjustment adjustment for fuel to air mixture

Keep it as close as possible to the power source. I would use a 10 amp fuse. If the third light has the same wattage you'd be pulling about 6.75 amps.