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Ok guys I finally got my first rj! I almost walked away from it based on how rough it looked but for $125 I think he made me buy it. It's missing so much like the belt shield, original seat, gas tank and push rod on the lift lever. Also the hood has been very hacked up. Question is to you experts is this, is it worth restoring? I'm leaning more toward restoring it because I've always wanted an RJ. Any advice or parts leads would be greatly appreciated. I'll try to get some better pics over the weekend. Sorry about the sideways photos. I have no idea why my phone does that.

Just put this engine stand together. Had my son draw it up on sketch-up and we welded it up. The bench top motor stand works great when your rebuilding a kohler engine. You can turn it in any position that you need to make the rebuilding easier. Every shop should have one. I may make several of these and list them in the classified adds.

Were you wearing a mask when you stole that little guy?

I AM PLANNING TO GET TO THE BIG SHOW THIS YEAR ALSO. I HAVE NOT MISSED THE LAST 11 YEARS. RUSS

Thanks Richard...that made my day. and back at you Mate. I'm sitting here watching golf. The warm up starts tomorrow, and maybe I can get out in the garage and do something. I just feel like I am wasting the day. Suppose to get a rain/snow mix tonight.

A great project. The old ones are getting pretty rare in some parts. Much better to restore it than go to the dump, that's for sure. At least the old stuff is restoreable. I can't imagine somebody trying to restore a new car in another 50 years.

Coming from from me,,,this may sound kinna funny.........I think i would get it running...make sure the rear axle fluid is clean again..and i would ride her... and be very proud,,,,,this looks like mine when i found it...clean alll the sheet metal...Wow....if you change your mind...I will give you your investment back...and a real cool crisp $5 ta boot !!!! =).... You done good..

I cut the shafts about mid way where there is room to cut with 1/32" thick cut off wheel. Then with both pieces off the tractor I use a 7/4"ID X1"OD sleeve to connect the two halves. The sleeve and shaft halves are drilled and pinned with a roll pin. The roll pins easily take the torque from the steering wheel as the one in the wheel does. I also tap the sleeve for set screws to help to hold the assembly in place while drilling and to lock the three parts together during final assembly in the tractor. The sleeve can be made as long as necessary if you want to extend the shaft to raise the wheel. There is no risk of damage to the wheel.

around my area its very hard to sell a tractor for anykind of money without a deck,as most people want to mow their grass with the tractor,as this is the most common task for a garden tractor,many people don't do anything other than mow and pull a cart

Thanks! I can't figure out why my phone posts pics upside down! Lol Thanks for all the encouragement guys! This the first RJ I know of in my area. The only other one I ever saw that was close to this was a 401 and I bought that one too! Definitely going to put this in line for a restoration. Let the parts hunting begin!!

New Old Stock Lawn Ranger and Spindles (never on a tractor) Sold and sent to Pete ! I asked him to post pictures on Red Square when he gets them on his redo Lawn Ranger project!

I would say that's a pretty much original RJ . Great find , it looks almost identical to mine . Here's a blurry pic from the add I bought it from . That hood can be saved . Had an old timer bodyman work on my hood . In fifteen minutes he had the front smoothed out . I asked him how much I owed him , he said nothing , it was a pleasure to work with real metal . Still have some patching and welding to do but it's one more saved .

Nice horse and you have the sticker on it. I managed to turn your pictures for you.

Lol! He asked me if $125 was too much and I didn't even argue I just gave him money!

In 73, I bought a 'Display' model 1972 Bronco 14 with 48" deck and dozer blade. That is too long ago to remember what I paid for it but $1500 comes to mind. I use it regularly for mowing 2 acres and for years used it for snow plowing. Several years ago I grabbed a C-160 auto and now use it for snow removal. Anyway....$450 sounds like a good price, but it is your money...not mine. You'll really like the hydro lift and the auto trans. CAUTION: .. take EXTREMELY CARE to keep ANY DIRT or other DEBRIS out of the hydro trans. Wipe off the dipstick and filler spout when checking fluid level and DO NOT overfill it.

Now, I want to see this movie . . . . someone will find it, there are those that have a photo memory for these things. Not me, this is what I have, it's the C-Nile Virus:

Is very cool... you should.

your retired that's what you are supposed to do, you have 7 days of free time.

it still amazes me how many parts are available for the tractors,i wonder if other brands are so good that way

Sensible people up your way.

I'll have to talk to those people at History.com, they didn't have that listed.

there could be but it would need all models and all their parts,im not computer savy to know how this would work,i just look at both models and go from there,if I need a spindle from a c120 to see if it will fit a 312 I look at parts tree or toro,but some part numbers change but the part still works,and the other way around

ive had to use my dremel and cut the old key,carefully to not touch the axle at all,sacrifice the 2.00 dollar key to save everything else

The attachments for the 5xi series are specific to this model. The 5xi is a longer, larger tractor with: a front-mount PTO as opposed to the Classic Wheel Horse side-mount; wider frame so the Attach-A-Matics' mounting points are further apart; a different hanger arrangement for the mower decks; and a longer wheelbase with a swept forward axle for sectoring a blade . Because of this they usually command a higher price. The 5xi attachments only show up once in a while compared to Wheel Horse attachments like you found, but not to say that they are not out there and it may take some time to find them. The good thing is that it appears that the majority of these tractors were sold east of the Mississippi. A dozer/snow blade could be reworked from another model but some fabricating would be needed. A better choice to start with would be a 48" blade intended for a late 520-H.

Aldon's method is what you need to follow. Just smack it hard; it will let go. Wear eye protection "just in case".

I know you have likely done this but with mine, it took a pretty harsh rap with a punch at a fairly sharp angle to break mine free. As you look at the hand drawn pic, the angle I had success at was at the arrow point. When it broke free it shot out and ricochet off tranny and I had to hunt around for it:-)

You should be able to the big thing is that you will need the correct rockshaft piece for the rear seat pan on the C-120. My 1979 C-121 has a rockshaft that is just like my 1993 314 on it. The pre-1978 tractors have to have a different part (rear rockshaft). I believe there is a Service Bulletin on thsi matter . I will se if I can find it and send to you!

Hey guys, I picking up the all totally original lawn ranger for $300. Is that a good buy?

Whx6 the tool I couldn't live without would have to be my 1/4 drive impact. It is amazing how fast you can tear down or repair a tractor with one of these.

sure its worth it,paitience to find the parts and lots of elbow grease she could be a nice lookin tractor again

Now that`s funny right there, I don`t care who you are that`s funny....

Everybody likes the round hoods, but if your going to work it I`d go with the 14...my

Lookin good! I bet the seat is gonna be real nice.

So it has been a while since I did an update on this one. After the big show last year Brennan wanted his tractor to be "shinny" so ... 10 mins after we unloaded the trailer he began to clean it up and then take it apart. Shortly after that he started to paint the frame and other parts. I started to do the body work to the sheet metal but then it got pushed to the side. Finally got back at it the last few weeks. Got the motor all cleaned up and painted. See pics.

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I keep my deck on.

Use caution though... easy to do more damage than good.

3-4-1966 John Lennon suffers from “foot in mouth” In England, no one took much notice of the John Lennon quotation that later set off a media frenzy in America. Chalk it up to a fundamental difference in religious outlook between Britain and America, or to a fundamental difference in sense of humor. Whatever the reason, it was only after the American press got hold of his words some five months later that the John Lennon comment that first appeared in the London Evening Standard on March 4, 1966, erupted into the “Bigger than Jesus” scandal that brought a semi-official end to the giddy phenomenon known as Beatlemania. In their original context, Lennon’s remarks were clearly meant not as a boast, but as a sardonic commentary on the waning importance of religion. “Christianity will go,” Lennon said. “It will vanish and shrink….We’re more popular than Jesus now.” It was only one comment in an interview that covered such wide-ranging topics as gorilla suits and car phones, but it was this comment alone that made its way into the American teenybopper magazine DATEbook several months later, boiled down to the straightforward line, “We’re more popular than Jesus.” From there, a handful of Bible Belt disc jockeys took over, declaring Lennon’s remarks blasphemous and vowing an “eternal” ban on all Beatles music, past, present and future. “Our fantastic Beatle boycott is still in effect,” announced two DJs on WACI Birmingham in August 1966: “Don’t forget to take your Beatle records and your Beatle paraphernalia to any one of our 14 pickup points in Birmingham, Alabama, and turn them in this week.” The plan in Birmingham, as in various other cities around the South, was to burn the Beatles records turned in by angry listeners. Though it is unclear how many such events really took place, the story of the burnings definitely reached the Beatles. “When they started burning our records…that was a real shock,” said John Lennon years later. “I couldn’t go away knowing I’d created another little piece of hate in the world. So I apologized.” The apology Lennon offered was not for the message he was trying to convey, but for conveying it in a way that confused its meaning. At a press conference in Chicago, John explained: “I’m not anti-God, anti-Christ or anti-religion. I was not saying we are greater or better. I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I’m sorry I said it, really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing.

Just looks a little dusty Should clean up nice. Judging from the photos, it looks like it's been leaking (especially the rear). You can bang that hood out pretty easy. Best of luck with it.

The only attachments that will fit an XI model (without fabricating a new mount) are XI attachments. The mounting system is different, and length/width of the tractor is different. If you can find a frame for an xi, the blade from a 300, 400, or 500 series will go on the frame.

Mike'sHorseBarn it has potential to be something nice and proud of. Enjoy the project. Gary B..

3-3-1931 “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes official President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official national anthem of the United States. On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the massive overnight British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. Key, an American lawyer, watched the siege while under detainment on a British ship and penned the famous words after observing with awe that Fort McHenry’s flag survived the 1,800-bomb assault. After circulating as a handbill, the patriotic lyrics were published in a Baltimore newspaper on September 20, 1814. Key’s words were later set to the tune of “To Anacreon in Heaven,” a popular English song. Throughout the 19th century, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was regarded as the national anthem by most branches of the U.S. armed forces and other groups, but it was not until 1916, and the signing of an executive order by President Woodrow Wilson, that it was formally designated as such. In March 1931, Congress passed an act confirming Wilson’s presidential order, and on March 3 President Hoover signed it into law

good to hear your doing better,think positive and get well

As has been discussed before there were several different Hydro pulleys on GT14's. If a tiller was intended or used in past it has a dual pulley and integrated cast iron fan for cooling. If you do some forum searches, Burlly posted a few different styles of the tiller pulley but they were all dual pulleys. Otherwise it came with single pulley with integrated fan. These at some point were further augmented with add of aluminum Torin 20 degree fan 7 inch in diameter, 5 fin. These often get damaged or are missing. Pics of one I pulled, blasted and repainted along with fan that I simply scrubbed with 3m pad for reference front and back. Note the keyway slot and the mounting holes. Ignore my supervisor;-) The fan is NLA from Toro. I sourced the fan below from McMaste Carr. it is an aluminum 5 fin fan. I believe it's 30 or 35 degrees. It can be modified to replace your missing 20 degree fan pretty easily. The aluminum is soft and can be twisted pitch wise until it will fit to side of pulley. The center can be drilled out to match the hydro shaft and mounting screw holes drilled easily as it is aluminum. I figured I would post this in case anyone felt the need to source a replacement. As I have tiller, I don't have a need to do the mod but at some point I will likely do it and have as a back up as I hve 2 other GT14's in addition to the one I am restoring. If I do so, I'll post a pic of the modified fan. So I started out by grinding off the bent tabs on back side of fan that hold the shaft receiver onto fan blade. Then twisted out the shaft. Then using step drill, enlarged the opening to fit pulley shaft. i went off the picture I had of the fan as I no longer have it ...it is on route to a forum member who needed one. As such I may not have gotten mounting holes and key way in exactly perfect location. It would be best to either have the pulley near when fabbing the part or make a detailed drawing with measurements. I used a dremel to grind the key way and appropriate drill for mounting holes. As it is aluminum, it was very easy and quick work. Here is the part I used to start with:

My two 420 LSE's