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Here's mine. Got the electric start working on the Lawn Ranger this morning. Paint makes a horrible ground! Going to mess around and see if I can get the suburban driving around today.

My morning was cleaning up the new to me suburban and taking pics for new wall art for my new house

hey all, I have a chance to pick this up for $100. Would it be worth it?

According to the list I'm looking at it was the 1067 and 1267.

8-13-1952 “Hound Dog” is recorded for the first time by Big Mama Thornton Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” (1956) is one of the biggest and most instantly recognizable pop songs in history. It’s a song so closely associated with the King of Rock and Roll, in fact, that many may mistakenly assume that it was a Presley original. In fact, the story of the song that gave Elvis his longest-running #1 hit (11 weeks) in the summer of 1956 began four years earlier, when “Hound Dog” was recorded for the very first time by the rhythm-and-blues singer Ellie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Los Angeles, California. Big Mama Thornton was a native of Montgomery, Alabama, who came of age on the R&B circuit in the 1940s after starting her professional career in 1941 at the age of 14. In 1951, she signed her first record contract with Peacock Records and was soon paired with another of its artists, bandleader Johnny Otis, who brought Thornton out to join his band in California. It was there, in late 1952, that Otis asked two young songwriters on the Los Angeles music scene if they would write something especially for Thornton. Those songwriters were Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, who would go on to have an enormous impact on R&B and early rock and roll through their work with groups like the Coasters and the Drifters. But hits like "Yakkity Yak,” “Charlie Brown,” “Stand By Me,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “Love Potion No. 9″ were still ahead of Lieber and Stoller when they did what Otis asked and came back to him with a 12-bar country blues tune called “Hound Dog.” On this day in 1953, Big Mama Thornton and the Johnny Otis Band recorded “Hound Dog” and turned it into a smash hit on the R&B charts, where it stayed at #1 for seven weeks. It wasn’t Thornton’s recording, however, that inspired Elvis to record "Hound Dog” three years later. Presley’s inspiration came from a rewrite by a singer named Freddie Bell, who changed the original lyrics to include the now-familiar “Cryin’ all the time” and “You ain’t never caught a rabbit.” During his first Las Vegas engagement in the spring of 1956, Elvis Presley heard Freddie Bell and the Bellboys performing the reworked “Hound Dog” and added it to his repertoire almost immediately

So this is my first wheel horse and i love it. Swapped an old 8 horse on it and it runs great. But the paint was going and rust was starting so I decided to fix that so here are the pics

Are you having a brain fart ! Question is , this should have been posted in " What's in your mirror " with the title " $100 Sububan score " !

98F with 76% humidity = 110 heat index. I'm staying inside and thankful for the AC. Don't forget our feathered friends.

I'm with ya Mike....

1967 867........8 SPEED 8 HORSE POWER....?????? jUST A SHOT IN THE DARK.....AND IM NOT THAT GOOD A SHOT....

No boll weevils in Felton, but if they ever show up, they'll get a dose of exhaust like I gave the moles a few years ago.

Hi, it's the second time I've posted on here, I'm hoping I'll have more luck this time round. I'm trying to track down a suburban 400 in the uk, specifically my old suburban 400. My dad restored it for me when I was younger and I showed it at shows in Cumbria, at the time wheelhorse didn't have much of a presence in the uk and we struggled to find info about it. I sold it in 2006-2007 stupidly. My last post seemed to be met with slight suspicion, I can assure people I'm not out to steal it, or try to rip someone off, however I would really like to know who owns it now, and if the opportunity arose to buy it back, it has a lot of sentimental attachment, and it has a few identifying items I can list to aid finding the exact machine: first the brake/clutch pedal has a hole drilled in it, this was due to me being too short to reach the pedal when I first got it and my dad made an extension so I could drive it. as stated, there wasn't much around wheelhorse wise at the time, therefore the attachments were all home made/modified. I believe there was a small plough, a homemade grubber, a homemade roller (it had a platform on a frame on top to add extra weights) a small trailer, and a front snow plough. I seem to recall the plough being modified from a Howard item but I could be wrong. the trailer it was carried on. Again this was a home made effort, a twin axle trailer specifically built to take the tractor and attachments. The small trailer for the tractor sat on a frame over the bonnet of the tractor. I know it's still around, and I know it came up for sale about 8 years ago. Again, I know people are suspicious about people sniffing round things, but somebody knows this tractor and its current owner, and if you could contact me for a phone number to pass along, I'd be incredibly greatful.

All of the above!!

Found in a barn west of Columbia Mo., been 2 weeks but comen alomg.

Red, antique white, black are the colors most commonly seen on the throttle knobs... so, if your restoring your original...just choose the one that works best for you. Then, on the other hand... if you know where to look, there's always this option.

No brainer.

As long as you swap everything that is needed to turn a hydro into an eight speed (linkage, springs, safety switches and wiring, clutch and brake pedals and rods etc everything should work. Hubs may have to change manual trans may be 1.125 axles, hydro may be 1.00 axles. Take lots of pictures. Not a trivial swap but certainly do-able

Wow, you're in the red zone there Van. I just went out to thank the Luxaire and checked the temp in my horse barn. I hear there is a thunderstorm with hail 50 miles North. No sign of it here but it is stirring up a little breeze.

I told you earlier that I was going to soak the aluminum head in some industrial strength aluminum cleaner the other day, and after pulling it out after about twenty minutes, this is how well it cleaned up. Now I just need to start polishing it up. Before: After: I finally found the can that had the throttle lever, carb, carb elbow, and some miscellaneous nuts and bolts in it. So I disassembled the carb and started soaking it as well as the elbow in this same cleaner. I was actually kind of surprised to find the carb bowl and ithe underside of the carb to be rather clean. This carb most obviously has never seen ethenol gas. However, as clean as the carb may have appeared, the cleaner started working immediately. The elbow picture above that still has paint on it is when I pulled it out of the cleaner. All I had to do was go over it lightly with a brass bristled brush and the results are the next picture. A question for the group. Is this elbow for an oil bath breather? If so, is there anyone out there that may have one for sale? This tractor didn't have a breather when I bought it, and since I'm not familiar with these Wheel Horses, I bought a standard air cleaner assembly for it, but realize now that it won't work. If a can't get an oil bath assembly, does anyone have an elbow that will work for my air cleaner? I'd like to keep this RJ as original as possible, so if an oil bath assembly is what I need, then I'd like to go with that option first. As for the throttle lever and all of the miscellaneous nuts and bolts, I currently have them soaking in a mixture of 50% apple cider vinegar and 50% water content. This is the first time I'm trying this method, but I've heard it gives good results, so I guess time will tell. I'm going to leave these soak for a day or two, as it's not the fastest way to remove rust. Another question for the group. What color is the throttle knob supposed to be? I see all kinds of color options out there, and since I'm not sure if the one I have is correct or not, I want the knowledge of the group. Mine appears to be an orange color, or a really faded red, triangular shaped knob?

Come now gents, it isn't that bad. I am a toolmaker, and work in a plant with no AC. Ten hours per day. Mind you, it is a little tougher now that I am crowding 60.

I'm jockeying for position in front of the AC with my dog as we speak. I can't believe I sat in this for 3 days at the steam show!

My 1267 Skonk WHOOMBAH!!!!

Looks good. I just recently got a Suburban myself.

That is a mid-90s to late 90's 2000 series. They came in either gear drive or hydro. The gear drive had pedals like the hydros did, but you had to come to a complete stop before you move into a higher gear. I had two of the hydros, both 2135s. The 2000 series had either a Kohler Command or an Onan on them. They made them up to the year 2000, and I believe they came out in 1994. I have brochures and manuals on them as I owned two of them. They were okay, but by the time these came out, MTD had more influence on the design of the Cub Cadet. They left them alone pretty much up to that point, but the 2000 series were designed by the MTD team and began to put more of the MTD design philosophy in the design. The gear drive versions were AGS, auto gear system. Problem was, with the foot controls, people thought they can be driven like you would a regular hydro, so a lot of clutches got burned up when driven that way. If the model number ended in a "0", i.e. 2130, 2140, it was the gear drive (AGS), if the model number ended in a "5", i.e. 2135, 2145, etc., it was a hydro tractor.

Just on my way home with a small load of wheel horse history! Mowing deck, snowblower and sickle bar! May sell the deck and blower tho idk yet.

Well, I just realized I will not be there Saturday . . . I got my dates screwed up which I realized today when I went to the auction and found an empty field Sooo, we will probably be there Friday night only since we already have plans for next Saturday . . . guess I'm getting old

I remember you asking the question once before & im sorry that you haven't found it yet , I'm pretty sure that the current owner is not a member here at Redsquare as I have been around here for a good few years and was probably one of the first few of UK members . I would imagine that if you keep digging on a few other vintage machinery forums you may get lucky & as the suburbans are pretty rare here in UK there can be many owners of them . I myself own 2 that were UK tractors and I know of a couple of other suburban owners from UK . Although I have seen some pictures of some vintage shows with suburbans in the background so naturally it is still out there . Do you have any other information on the person that you sold it too as to where they were located , this may narrow it down to what part of the country it may be . Try our sister site. www.myoldmachine.com & also vintage horticultural garden machinery club , these are the two main UK forums that may know of its whereabouts , in the mean time I will keep my eyes & ears open for you .

Good start, although that seat looks painful...and

Are there a lot of boll weevils in Felton, Pa. ? Do you spray your cotton or stand guard with a shotgun like Bill Murray in the Caddyshack Movie ? Or yell GET OFF MY LAWN like Clint Eastwood? Yep, taste like chicken.....

That's , a fact ! My brother step off snowmobile trail to take a wee . Let's just say , there was no way he was getting his bibs down ! Snowmobiling in the Newberry /Paradise area gets two . U.P.

Taste like chickin....

If you want snow, head to the top of Michigan's U.P. in mid-January. -20* air temp w/-40* wind chills and snow drifted taller than I stand when we were in Paradise in 2015. I'm going back really soon!

A couple more. I run NIP when I have the time, but I didn't get out much last year. Hopefully I can hit more tracks this year.

This story goes back to a couple months before the 2015 big show. I've told it before but I briefly say again for those who didn't see it earlier. Two gentlemen (brothers) had four Wheel Horses and found this forum in search of more information on them. I replied and discovered that they were only 30 some miles from me so I told them I'd come take a look at them. They had a 701 which they ended up selling to a member here and I hauled it to the big show last year and @limited12 relayed it to the new owner in Virginia. They had a nice 854 that they decided to keep. The last two were these: As you can see they have their issues and my suggestion was to make one good tractor out of the two of them. Obviously one is a 657 and the other that I called a Frankenhorse, The snowblade on it went with the 701. A few weeks later I received a text. They told me that if I wanted them come get them At the time I didn't realize it but the Frankenhorse turned out to be a 500 Special (Serial #490313). That added to my excitement. 95%+ of the parts on a 657 and a 500 Special are identical so there was no question what I was going to do. 500 Special here I come. I disassembled both of them and my comment about making one good one was the right diagnosis. Based on the shift rails one of the transmissions wasn't original and likely a 5025. Many of the gears were in bad shape. Fortunately, out of the two transmissions I was able to build a good one. One fender pan was pretty much shot as well as one frame where it attaches to the transmission. Over the course of the past few months I've been gradually painting parts and making a few things for it. The engine sitting there is a K-161 I picked up from @jd110 It spent it's earlier years serving duty at Micky Mouse Land. No Tecky for me. Here's how she sits now. A big thanks to @19richie66 for many of the parts going on this build. The tires (23-8.50 and 16-5.50, all with the Wheel Horse lettering), the steering wheel, fuel tank, seat parts of the style I wanted, and more. Another item that was given to me by the same two gentlemen was a snow blade. I've got it restored but tucked away right now and it will be going on this tractor. A snow blade in central Florida No worries. We'll be back in Indiana not too far down the road. I'll be working on the body parts now but they won't get final paint until the weather breaks. That's all coming from the 657 and, as you can see, everything is nice and straight and will be easy to fix up.

tigman digging. old goods going to a good home.

I have a K321 Kohler engine which was pretty much worn out with a .014" undersize rod journal and already .030"+ overbore when I bought it. I contacted R & R Engine and Machine in Akron, Ohio to do the machine work to get it back to a useable condition. I had them install a stock bore size sleeve, and they ground the crank rod journal to .020" undersize to fit a new piston and rod I ordered from Kustom Law and Garden in Minerva, Ohio. sleeve installed and bored to stock size - $225 crank rod journal ground to .020" undersize - $60 piston/rod assembly from Kustom Lawn and Garden - $117 I put the engine together myself to save labor costs. I know this is a bit of a drive for you but these two shops have great parts and machine work. They will turn around your order or machine work in a week. The web sites: http://shop.kustomlawnandgarden.com/main.sc http://www.rrengine.com/index.html

well ill give you 100 for the the fenders and the foot rest id give that and not even have to think i is complete with an engine.

Look in the vendor section. One of the guys there has them.

When I'm a t work one of the chilled water plants uses steam to make it cool! The hotter outside the more steam we need. I've seen 130 on the dial before.

Very nice restoration That K91 sure looked clean inside. Was the bottom of the oil pan that clean?? See Glenn Pettis Restoraton parts in the fender section for the lift arm black grip and knobs for the throttle and choke levers

Looks like we need to add more security to our stables.

Troy, I remember seeing some of those "storage" pictures before, probably on WFM. I see the winch you have to get them up the ramps into the upper bay. Those little winches do come in handy. I had one on a 12 tilt trailer once and it saved my back a few times. I need to put one on my current trailer. What keeps me going to the shows now, is basically a lack of them in this area. That and it seems like they're in the hottest time of year. There is the Owensville Threshers Reunion show in Rosebud, Missouri, but it's in July. I went a few years, and with heat indexes over 100 to 120, it's a bit on the warm side, especially for me.

Looks similar in nature.

Hallo Dennis, I've got a 1 inch axle hub laying about somewhere, if that is what you need Let me know and i'll send it to ya for the shipping costs

I made my own...

I will do this in a couple of posts...(so I don't confused) I am disassembling 3 WH Electric PTOs. I assume youhave already removed from teh tractor using a pusher bolt. 5/8NC or 7/8NC or 1"NC depending on the age of your PTO First picture are the tools i used Who ever made these for WH they were not consistent in the style of snap ring. The Eaton type require a special pliers or you will probably damage it (or your self removing it. The big internal snap ring on the right can be removed with a couple of screw drivers. Next step is to remove the electro magnet (field Coil). Note on older units with a 7/8 or 1" pusher there may be a snap ring you have to remove between the outer bearing and the field coil. Newer units do not use that. Thread the 5/8" nc bolt into the unit from the outside Picture 2 make sure the threads are fully engaged. Manual says use cement floor i used an anvil and proceed to slam the unit down on the bolt head several times...and I do mean slam.Picture 3. You may want to put a small amount of Kroil.PB Blaster in the seam between the inner bearing race and the PTO sleeve. After several hard slams the field coil will drop out Picture 4. You will then have 2 parts picture 5. Time for a coffeee break. More to follow

The IGTPA schedule should be coming out real soon. We normally have a pretty good turn out of super stocks. Maybe I'll run into you this year. Keep an eye out for this one, it's mine.

It has a custom built chassis. The only part on the tractor that is cub is the rear end housing. The clutch is a VW and all the gears are aftermarket. Thanks for the nice comments. I enjoy the tractor.

OH MY GOD...I think you've already won this season based on looks alone. Seriously...you're not really planning to get that thing dirty, RU? :)