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When the snowblade does not help. But the trailer and shovel - it's good.

This article link is posted this morning on the Wheel Horse Junkies FB site. It points to the following news story about Chaplain Manny. Inspirational stuff, for sure! http://www.newsandtribune.com/opinion/beam-love-thy-neighbor-utica-resident-provides-help-to-his/article_8a769946-163a-11e6-8a56-231b02889290.html

Finally, my wife got to see first hand the advantage of having multiple Wheel Horses around the yard. Got to get her new clothesline pole up and leveled properly.

Got my 2nd horse home, picked up this 310-8 from the woman's grandparents, needs a lil TLC but it'll be a good worker. Next his getting his 753 home to work on.

5-10-1980 Government gives Chrysler $1.5 billion loan On this day in 1980, United States Secretary of the Treasury G. William Miller announces the approval of nearly $1.5 billion dollars in federal loan guarantees for the nearly bankrupt Chrysler Corporation. At the time, it was the largest rescue package ever granted by the U.S. government to an American corporation. Founded as the Maxwell Motor Company Inc. in 1913, Chrysler grew into the Chrysler Corporation after 1925, when Walter P. Chrysler took over control of the company. Its purchase of Dodge Brothers in 1928 announced Chrysler’s arrival as a major force in the U.S. automotive industry. After decades of expansion, the company’s success came to a screeching halt after the 1973 oil crisis led to skyrocketing gas costs and new government standards for emissions. The combination of these factors caused problems for the Big Three of American automakers–Ford, General Motors and Chrysler–as the trend towards so-called “muscle cars” in the 1960s had led them to produce vehicles with powerful, gas-guzzling engines. (Chrysler’s famous Hemi engine, used in cars like the Dodge Charger and Challenger and the Plymouth RoadRunner, was one of the most prominent examples.) In an attempt to produce lighter, more efficient vehicles, Chrysler bought shares in the Japanese motor company Mitsubishi, which began producing subcompact cars in America under the Chrysler name in 1970. By the end of the decade, however, Chrysler was in dire financial straits. Lee Iacocca, the former Ford executive who became the company’s president and chairman of the board in 1978, appealed for a federal loan, banking on the fact that the government wouldn’t allow the country’s No. 3 automaker to declare bankruptcy in an already depressed economy. His gamble paid off: In explaining the decision to grant the loans to Chrysler, Treasury Secretary Miller stated that the government “recognizes that there is a public interest in sustaining [its] jobs and maintaining a strong and competitive national automotive industry.” The terms of the $1.5 billion in loans required Chrysler to raise another $2 billion on its own, which Iacocca did by streamlining operations and persuading union leaders to accept some layoffs and wage cuts, among other measures. His high-profile personal leadership, combined with a focus on more fuel-efficient vehicles, steered Chrysler to one of the most famous corporate comebacks in recent history: In 1984, a year after paying off its government loans ahead of schedule, the company posted record profits of some $2.4 billion.

Here are some before and after pictures of my freshly restored 1969 Work Horse 700. My dad bought this tractor new when I was 2 years old. I started driving it when I was 6, and mowing when I was 8. My son will be 6 this fall. It will be his turn to drive it soon! Let me know what you all think! Thanks, Eric.

Here are a couple now that it's in with the others

On my way home. Got a few extra toys too..

Punched out the brake band side of the RJ idler today. One shot of PB Blaster and she came out very nice with a punch. I have cut up several 8 inch pieces for my welder and I made a couple RJ and Suburban brake side and idler pulley side pieces to be drilled on the welders drill press and/or Bridgeport machine. I only need one idler but I thought since I have an RJ and Suburban idler arm to work from off the transmissions it would be a good idea to do some more and get the right measurements etc. recorded for future use.

club our small engines on average have only a 7 to 1 compression ratio. back in the day we used PREMIUM fuel for over 10 to 1 compression engines the high octane fuel by it self is a waste of money for our LOW compression engines. the higher the octane of the fuel the sooner the candle must be lit. in other words the timing must be WAY advanced for proper combustion. because the fuel burns slower. back in the day i was a tech inspector for 2 different garden tractor pulling clubs. i could SMELL the AV gas in some of the off lawn STOCK tractor engines, but i never said anything because their CHEATING was actually hurting their performance. thank you. boomer ( the used onan engine parts guy, also NOS and new )

Wow.... Does this mean I can buy six new 520s to replace the six tent stakes I use to hold up the volleyball net? I'll see what Mrs K thinks.

Dancing round the Maypole, how seasonal.

Looks like horses playin tether ball

Which freed her up to get back in the kitchen!! Good call Garth.

It's much more fun to stand in line at the big show.

Just finished the restoration of this cart. I picked it up from a great guy, and the shape was good, just needed some TLC.

here's what the pad is for, I'm a little disappointed, I bought a 14'x28' shed so I could put my Dart and tractors in, figuring that outside width would be 14' and inside wold be 13' + inside. when it arrived I only measured 12" 9" inside and 13' outside. apparently the 14' is measured at the peak ends. kind-of misleading in my opinion, but at this point I guess it is what it is. so here's the pictures, I do want to put sealant on the floor before filling it up eric j

Been a bit since last update. Bodywork phase. Sand, puddy, sand, puddy and sand again.....and waiting for a few days warm sunny dry weather to start doing some painting. Since this is a worker when I get the right weather, paint is going on regardless of how perfect the bodywork is. It won't win a prize but it is a darn site better than it started out. Lol And the reason for the update....Check out the bling Terry, @vinylguy, made up for me. This image is next to last draft. The set of decals he is sending me are identical but indicate GT16 instead of GT14 due to the K341 on board. I can't wait to get them installed.

Well I keep telling myself I'm not buying anymore as I'm trying to get ready to move hopefully in July... Well I found one I'm dying to have... Soo... I sweet talked my wife(even tho she did tell me when I found a good deal of a nice horse I could buy it) so that is my plan for tomorrow after I get my new wheels n tires mounted on my truck, I'm headed over 2 hours away to look at and hopefully buy another red horse.. Can't wait! Will post pics tomorrow!!! O me and my son got the ranger out yesterday after the lawn got mowed.. Then later me and my daughter took all the wheels off my wife's A-81 to scrub them up for Mother's Day present! It's a family hobby around my house!

This might not help correct Formariz's belt eating problem but I have seen belts chewed up for the reasons I am going to explain. One of the things I have noticed on these 36 inch mower decks that causes trouble is the oval hole in the idler arm sometimes gets distorted and slides sideways in addition to back and forth. I change the carriage bolts about every three or four years when redoing a deck and check the holes on the idler arm. These decks pictured in this thread have two different idler arms -one with the black plastic slider and one with the U shaped nylon type idler block that goes around the top of the idler arm and rests on a 1/16 inch slider with square holes for the carriage bolts to come thru from the bottom. These U shaped nylon (and it may be some other material) slide blocks can wear side to side too. The U shaped blocks are no longer made and although I have several that still are in great shape after 40 plus years of use they will wear and we will need replacements. The black round type are still made and Glen Pettit also sells some of these variety. The idler arms must slide easily and without bouncing around.

Jim, you must be missing the location of the attachment point of the ends of the spring. In this photo, the bottom end of the spring is attached to the sliding bar and the top end is fixed to the deck. Therefore the spring is pulling the sliding bar and pulley up and tightening the belt.

Here in Wisconsin if we want no ethanol gas we have to buy premium or recreational gas. These are usually marked as no ethanol at the pump.

Could you snap a photo?

Oh your really lucky! we have quite high ethanol content over here which is a huge pain! so thats really good! I have heard using some aviation fuel or part aviation fuel (which is available nearby) works??? Oh ok well this will be interesting i would like to see some results from this. Thats great!! maybe but keep wishing for that good luck. i haven't and don't wish on any as they can be a real pain. James I can send you a picture of the additives i have tomorrow. James

Here in Iowa I still have easy access to regular unleaded gasoline with no alcohol. It is 87 octane and I get it at my neighborhood gas station. I have never used high octane fuels in my small engines so I am also interested in this topic and reading all the responses. That being said I have never had any carb or engine problems with my 95 520H I've owned and been using year round since 1997. Perhaps I have just been lucky.

Yeah I was thinking the regular lawn and garden solenoid.

That's great we need more people in the world to follow God and listen to His direction and this world would be a much better place. If everyone who was blessed with abundance in material things and in extra time would share with those in need it would have a great impact in wiping out poverty and helping the less fortunate with their daily tasks that they find difficult to do. It would also give us a feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, and purpose in life.

I've seen Chaplin Manny's posts on Facebook. A good man at heart for sure. Good to see and a REAL Wheel Horse fan too. Do you think naming his son RJ was a coincidence?

And this time don't cut the bowl gasket

Probably allowing for having to hang out clothes after he gets about 5 feet of snow.

I remember that time and it was pretty scary for the public. The decision to grant the loan was not without controversy. A lot of the turn around and success of the company can be directly attributed to Iacocca and his no nonsense approach, and the sheer force of his personality and superb executive skills. The minivan changed everything for Chrysler, and the auto industry in general.

No, that's why I used the bedliner, it will be used all my stuff is restored and run pretty hard and restored again.

I always hear " I'll never drive a mini van " ! Then I say " once you own one ,you'll always have one " !

You have a 5085 transmission. The '2-36' isn't a part number as you suspected but this will give you what you need. The first thing you need to do is flush it out. A lot of guys use diesel fuel. Drain the oil and add the diesel. Drive it around a bit then drain again. Repeat if needed. Do this and then get back to us. It sounds like your problem is in the shifter fork/rails. It could be as simple as the excessive 'goop' in there but let's not rewire the house if it's just a burnt out light bulb.

I think in 84 the first mini van came in to save the day .

Hi. I see that like me you are in UK. I have a 73 Raider 12. You can go to your local Toro dealer and order the belt which as said above is 7473. I use these guys, they are far cheaper http://www.beltingonline.com/ They are based in Poole Dorset. They are very helpful. On the website you will find V belts click on that you will find "Help identifying belts" Use this to find the right belt. The belts that they supply seen to last at least as long as the Toro ones

If your local Napa still has it's gas cap catalog, You can bring in the old one and it can get measured up. The book has cap sizes in it.

Thought I read the Harley caps look, and fit perfectly.

Flea bay vented motorcycle chrome cap. About 10.00. That's what I got for my 854.

Yes sir! I will have better pics tomorrow after I get it cleaned up.

Ok, this one has gone off track enough. To all, RedSquare does NOT advocate removing or tampering with safety equipment which is installed on your machine, and we do not advocate harming children.

since my collection keeps on growing,,,,,, I needed a better way to haul my collection to the shows. my 28 foot enclosed is full of tractors that only go to shows and my old narrow car trailer just wasn't that safe to haul more then 3 tractors at one time. so i talked the wife into a home equity line of credit and proceeded to gather prices on different options that would meet my needs and give room here at home. my wife's 92 year old grandma is living with us and my son is graduating from college and also need to move back home for a month or so till he and a friend start their new job and can rent an apartment together closer to his new job. I looked into a new enclosed trailer, what i really wanted but decided it was just to expensive to get what i wanted and needed, so plan B, I check alot of different brands of landscape trailers. and once again ran into trying to find one that fit the budget, cheap and good quality. Finally decided on an Appalachian trailer. the good part was that they had just what i was looking for sitting at the factory in Ohio and didn't ave to wait for 4 to 6 weeks to be built so I would have for the little guys show May 20, 21. It showed up in Manheim Pa in a week. i picked it up yesterday morning and the took it for an hour ride up to Dale's mower service and picked up so parts that I had ordered and then proceeded home. got home and the wife wanted to go to supper and some errands. got home and checked c/l to find a wheel horse snow blower for $ 40.00 listed. called the guy and he said i was the 3 rd caller on it in 15 minutes since it was listed. i told him i can come right now if it wasn't promised to anybody else and it wasn't to late, it was 8:30 or a little later. he told me to come on over, so i asked him if i ha room to turn around a 20 ft trailer and he said no problem, he was a real nice guy and had just sold his house that day and was moving to a smaller place in York and a house in Florida, but the new trailer got christen with a trail blazer 7, not sure the trailer was big enough for it lol. so now here are pictures of the trailer, all of my trailers, the trail blazer 7 and things to come. the new trailer is a 82"x20' 10k. and a special shout out of thanks to Charlie Cully and Don Varos for all of their help eric j

If you unbolt both motors from their oil pans and swap the motor you will save yourself a lot of unnecessary work. Make sure the oil dipper won't hit the oil pan.

Yes nice to see other members putting horses to good use other than just playing around and drinking beer on!

Thanks! And your right.. I had 5 so what's one more! Lo I've got 5 and fixin' to add one more myself.

My extension on my chute. I just have to paint it. I think it will help.

Thank you glad to be part of the community, and (hopefully) pass along some knowledge of these classic tractors!

It's the "entitlement" mentality of the world we live in, I'm not advocating it but probably guilty of always wanting better for the kids than we had it, so then they think they're entitled instead of working for it I know first hand with my son whose mother "buys" him, then I'm expected to do the same, but I don't play that game so I don't get to see him much or even talk on the phone but I digress sometimes it has to be a dose of tough love, my current wife and step children aren't that way whether we have the means or not you have to "earn" your way through life, I grew up without running water and color TV and name brand clothing, what would these kids today do without that and their phones and tablets and Xboxes?,but I think I turned out just fine and respect my budget and fix what I can ,know how to grow, catch, gather,and hunt my own food it doesn't always come from Wal-Mart! For every 1 good thing technology and evolution brings us seems like 10 bad to go with it, yes at 44 even I sometimes pine for the days of old, 20+ years ago I couldn't wait to get out of hillbilly "hell", now I wish most days were right back there, funny how that works,anyways just an ole hillbilly's ramblings,Jeff.