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  1. 10 points
    Hi: This is another follow up to cheap trailer, I put the tractor on the trailer to see how it would fit. A D-250 with a loader just fits my 10foot X 6foot trailer, and the cheap ramps worked well also. See that a D-250 is a large tractor
  2. 9 points
    I bought this $100 non-runner just for the 8 speed tranny to put in my low rider project. The PO said it needed a new coil and a new carb. He had installed new points, condenser, plug, and a new electric fuel pump and it still would not run. When I picked it up I found it had a transplanted 14 HP K321. I got it home, checked the oil in the engine and the 8 speed and the both looked pretty clean. So I installed a battery and cranked it over. The switch and solenoid were working and the starter sounded strong and quiet, but as the PO said, there was no fire at the plug. A few checks with the ohm meter uncovered a break in the coil to points wire. After fixing this, I had good fire at the plug. Using the full palm choke, it ran but was starving for fuel. This is what I found in the fuel tank shut off valve. This PO had installed a new electric fuel pump that did not solve his fuel delivery problem. So he thought he needed a new carb. The carb does need a new throttle shaft bushing and a good cleaning, He had installed new points, condenser, and plug and still did not have fire. So he gave up and sold it as a non runner because he did not want to spend any more money on parts. The engine still needs some carb work, but today it was running and driving around the yard. The electrical components he replaced were probably needed, but he certainly did not need a new coil or carb and possibly the new fuel pump. I will reconnect the mechanical pump and check it out. I decided to report my findings here hoping it would help some of our new WH owners and prevent them from making the same mistakes. These engines are really pretty forgiving...They need fire at the plug and fuel to the carb and in most cases, if the internals are working at all to create some compression, they will run. The point here is to spend a little time to find the problem rather than spending bucks for new parts that are not the problem.
  3. 7 points
    A few pics from the WNY Steam Engine Assoc. Show: Cool little Cletetrac Neat "Little Pete" "Rickey the Bull" Chevy Big block powered Buick YIKES!!!!! Little "Kitty" crawler Another YIKES!!!!!
  4. 6 points
    Well guys I've been crazy busy with moving and once I got here the house had been let go so yard was waist high. Had a guy mow it twice with zero turn and I have mowed twice, it's still has tons of grass we have to rake up and that's where the 753 comes to help haul it away! O and it took me and my kids down to dollar general and tractor supply down the road lol. IMG_2688.MOV
  5. 6 points
    The C-101 has a cradle mount for the engine. The engine and starter grounding is done through the cradle to a cable that is connected to the frame. Make sure that ALL of your ground connections are good before you do anything else. I've seen sparks fly from the throttle cable because of a bad engine ground. A bad ground could be the reason for a dead battery, and running with the lights on could have been what helped to drain the battery to the point where it didn't have enough power to keep the ignition circuit going.
  6. 4 points
    Goll dang it Richard...yes, I think.
  7. 4 points
    9-10-1897 First drunk driving arrest On this day in 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 shillings. In the United States, the first laws against operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol went into effect in New York in 1910. In 1936, Dr. Rolla Harger, a professor of biochemistry and toxicology, patented the Drunkometer, a balloon-like device into which people would breathe to determine whether they were inebriated. In 1953, Robert Borkenstein, a former Indiana state police captain and university professor who had collaborated with Harger on the Drunkometer, invented the Breathalyzer. Easier-to-use and more accurate than the Drunkometer, the Breathalyzer was the first practical device and scientific test available to police officers to establish whether someone had too much to drink. A person would blow into the Breathalyzer and it would gauge the proportion of alcohol vapors in the exhaled breath, which reflected the level of alcohol in the blood. Despite the invention of the Breathalyzer and other developments, it was not until the late 1970s and early 1980s that public awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving increased and lawmakers and police officers began to get tougher on offenders. In 1980, a Californian named Candy Lightner founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, after her 13-year-old daughter Cari was killed by a drunk driver while walking home from a school carnival. The driver had three previous drunk-driving convictions and was out on bail from a hit-and-run arrest two days earlier. Lightner and MADD were instrumental in helping to change attitudes about drunk driving and pushed for legislation that increased the penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. MADD also helped get the minimum drinking age raised in many states. Today, the legal drinking age is 21 everywhere in the United States and convicted drunk drivers face everything from jail time and fines to the loss of their driver’s licenses and increased car insurance rates. Some drunk drivers are ordered to have ignition interlock devices installed in their vehicles. These devices require a driver to breath into a sensor attached to the dashboard; the car won’t start if the driver’s blood alcohol concentration is above a certain limit.
  8. 4 points
    Thank you all so much Gents! I would have been back to you much sooner but i had to get up at 6, do a few chores then get on the Harley and go for a 200 mile ride to unwind from the work week. Steve, I will check out the above link and hopefully give that person some business. You all are terrific !!!
  9. 4 points
    OK, I can't type or spell, but I have enough scents...or cents....er since to pick up another one this morning. That's not much to go on when you loadem backwards. Does this help? And a free clevis hitch. And a custom header.
  10. 4 points
    I don't know for sure Van but it doesn't look like a factory pulley. I believe the correct one is cast iron while that one looks like a pot metal one.
  11. 4 points
    So with all new guts in the carb, it runs pretty well. It can be a little tempermental at first, dying if I give it more than half throttle, but after a minute or so it seems to settle down and will run just fine. It will just spin it's belt in anything higher than 3rd gear going uphill, but hopefully a new belt will help that. Satisfied that I didn't have a basketcase on my hands, I proceeded with the first phase of my plan - upgrading the tires. To give it a little tougher look, I wanted to run lug tires all the way around like the Cub rider that inspired me. I got a pair of 13x5.00-6 lug tires from surplus center for the front, but the closest lug tires I could find to the 15x5.00-6's for the rear were 14x4.50-6. The actual specs were only slightly smaller, so I thought it was worth a shot. After mounting one for the rear, I could tell right away it wasn't going to give me the look I wanted. The smaller diameter was only slightly noticeable, but the 1/2" narrower width (more like 3/4") was more noticeable and just didn't look right to me. So, I moved on to plan B. The next size bigger lug tires I could find for the rear was 16x6.50-8. The specs on Miller Tire's website said they were really on 15.6 tall, which by my measurements fit. Of course they required an 8" rim, but finding 8" rims to fit on a 3/4" axle shaft wasn't too hard. In the meantime, I moved the 14x4.50-6's to the front. (Incidentally, the front and rear rims are both 6" despite what the parts book says. Both are the same width although they have different offsets, and the rears are keyed.) The 16x6.50-8 Deestones arrived and I got them mounted up. Unfortunately, the 15.6 dimension must be unmounted and uninflated because once mounted they were just over 16" and did not fit quite so well. I had to do a little tweaking of the fenders to make them fit, and even now they only have about 1/4" clearance. It doesn't look like it would be too hard to give it a little bit of a "lift kit", so I may do that at some point. The fronts also rub a little when fully turned, but I think the look is worth it. It definitely doesn't have quite the wimpy RER look anymore. I left the deck mounted for just a little trial, and even with the bigger tires it still had enough clearance (just barely) and mowed OK. I used it to pull a little yard cart and a sprayer and it worked like a charm. The next phase is to work on the rear "bed". I got a HVAC intake grill I plan to modify as an engine cover (it doesn't look like this Work Horse originally came with one), and then will build some kind of cargo rack to go above that.
  12. 3 points
    Had the C-120 out today taking care of the lawn mowing duties. It sure does a nice job.
  13. 3 points
    I think you need a passport to get in that country. Luckily I sneaked in and didn't have to go through customs like some do. I think Steve was a bit conservative on his view of this 701. It's in nicer shape than what he led me to believe. Now I'm thinking how to get more of the red machines out of his dad's barn.
  14. 3 points
    Very cool Bert and Mrs. I would think that you guys started something for selling RED stuff in the Classifieds. How cool is that???
  15. 3 points
    She smiled when she read that It was simple, I asked her too shes got her eye on my herd and is currently looking to buy herself a no name 14 auto with hydro lift
  16. 3 points
    Rule of thumb. Never assume anything when jumping or charging a battery. Always look at the markings embossed on the battery near each lug. The cable from the (-) lug should always go to the frame. The cable from the (+) goes to the solenoid. Then, when charging or jumping, the red charger or jumper wire always goes to (+), and the black always goes to the (-) lug or the frame, and the same goes for hooking the jumper cable to the donor battery.
  17. 3 points
    Deck top, is that some type of awning?
  18. 3 points
    I noticed that but I sure wasn't going to say anything. Ya never know.
  19. 3 points
    I agree 1611 is the one needed but I wasn't holding that one. Notice the painted finger nails? Thats not my style this is
  20. 3 points
    I'm glad you thought to post this, I am a driven trouble shooter.... I can't not figure out what is wrong with something, and it never occurs to me that this isn't the norm lol...... I sold 5 push mowers this year that folks just gave me because they couldn't get them to run. I had every single one running in ten minutes, just had to take apart and clean the carb. Except one wich say out so long the fly wheel and magneto were so rusted it couldn't make spark....that one took forever (45 minutes lol).
  21. 3 points
    I think you need one like this. It came off an old 3 lug hub era trans, looks the same as the common 3 speed used throughout the sixties
  22. 2 points
    3 bays 13'long each! Room for plenty of horses! Desperately need to get them out from under tarps! probably gonna do all pallets except for the roof cause we can get snow loads up to 4' thick. But I am thinking what to do cheap for the roof materials.. If anyone has anything in Nh or any creative" ideas!
  23. 2 points
    Guys, I'm trying to address as much of the mechanical details as possible on my little 701 so that I can bring it to the Big Show next year. Since adopting it from a Cub Cadet orphanage last year I've cleaned and set the points, cleaned and adjusted the carburetor replaced all the worn nuts and bolts with the good anodized stuff, replaced the S/G belts and engine to transmission belt, found a transmission belt cover at the Big Show this year as the old one was missing, replaced the left rear hub and the left axle seal, changed the transmission oil and engine oil, adjusted the slack out of the transmission shifter lever and replaced the dust cover, cleaned the original glass bowl fuel filter and shut off, and bought a nice set of AG tires already mounted to a set of wheels ( at the Big Show, where else ) and have them mounted up. The original front tires are in great shape and hold air like brand new, so I'm keeping them on. So anyway, I take it out and drive it a little every week or two to see if anything is going to break so I can make the necessary repairs well ahead of June 2017. A few days ago I was driving it and all of a sudden it stopped moving under its own power. Checking it over quickly I discovered the transmission input shaft was spinning inside its pulley. I thought the keyway was sheared but turns out it did not have a key, and was relying on the set screw to hold the pulley to the transmission shaft. I installed a new keyway and all is well now. OK, after the long introduction here is my question; Here is a picture of the pulley that mounts to the transmission input shaft. Is this the correct factory installed pulley or is this a replacement? It's the correct diameter and V-groove size but it looks a little out of place to me like it's not original. I have no Roundhood experience other than this tractor, so I've got to reach out to you fellows who are more in the know. BTW, it was you guys who inspired me to own a Roundhood Wheel Horse. I would see some of you really enjoying yourselves with the little ones and I didn't want to miss out on the fun.
  24. 2 points
    A close friend of mine just calls me. He is on his motorcycle riding home, about 2 miles from where I live. There's a wheel horse for sale in the driveway. He gets me the number and talk to the owner for a bit.I just got off the phone with the owner, he isn't sure of the year, BUT, he bought it brand new. He says the first year for wheel horse toro. He says the motor starts with a O. I say Onan, he goes that's it. My friend Pete tells me he spots 520 on it. . The old timer says it has much less than 500 hours on it. He also says the big 60 inch deck, wheel weights, chains and a single stage snowthrower to. Here's the clincher, I ask how the transmission is, the hydro, any Problems? He says it's not a hydro, it's a hi / lo shift. Bottom line he is asking a thousand bucks. Tomorrow I will go look, take pictures and report back. My friend Pete says it's a little paint off here and there but not bad. Ok, we don't know how she looks, we don't know exact year or hours. But considering so far what I said. Do we agree that a thousand dollars is a fair asking Price? I think it might be, and I can't believe it's the rare 520-8, shift model......... Give me your thoughts, thanks men. I am all excited,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oh, another thing, don't tell my mrs. Shhhhhhhh,,,,mums the word. Glenn
  25. 2 points
    Not quite ,tractor one year newer and cart might be older .
  26. 2 points
    The only cost is going to be the effort required to get it out and on a trailer. Here's some more pictures. It definitely needs a hug.
  27. 2 points
    If you're talking about the anti-sway bumper bracket, I have 1995 520, with the same problem. The belt guard bracket fit fine but the bumper bracket doesn't fit around the engine plate. I installed the two stage for the 2010-11 season and have been running it since without any issues. The photos are the two pieces I mentioned. Craig
  28. 2 points
    Once worked with a fellow who had this hook up on his Ford truck; if he was drunk he would open the hood and use a small jumper wire to start it!
  29. 2 points
    I'm going to use that picture as my deck top Mike. Turn on the computer, make a bloody Mary and unwind. Bert, how did you get her to hold that pulley??
  30. 2 points
    In the 1980's the Chevrolet dealer I worked for signed a contract to install a breathalyzer devise made by a company called Intoxalock and called me into his office to tell me congratulations, I had been chosen to install these devises on the owners vehicles........ Most of the vehicles were as you can imagine worn out and beat up and about half of them you couldn't open the drivers door..... I made all my connections inside the vehicle under the steering column into the ign. switch wiring as opposed to the other installers I was informed stringing wire to the starter solenoid which would be exposed to the weather and quickly failed and left the owners with a no start condition whether they were intoxicated or sober. Intoxalock wanted to make a installation video of me installing their system which I agreed to do If I was paid my normal installation fee. They seemed to think I would spend an entire day making an educational video for them for no charge....... HA!!! With me under the dash and the camera man in the back seat filming nothing useful and asking questions like what are you hooking up now and how do you know which wire goes to the starter solenoid from the ign. switch. Needless to say I didn't win an Emmy and the film was never used for installation training......
  31. 2 points
    Personally I would have gone for white tip nails! Unwind with a 200 mi run? I unwound finding out I can't use my front mount mower carrier with a RD deck I tried to unwind at the Steam Show yesterday but they kept calling me with problems. Should have turned off the phone but I needed it's camera!
  32. 2 points
    I missed the nails Bert...watching games as I was looking on RS, but now that I go back and look at that picture...that is a pretty sexy shot. That pulley could be worth a lot more then $20.
  33. 2 points
    I noticed that Bert, and I knew that could not possibly be you Thank you Steve for the good info. $20 to be back original is money well spent in this case. I have no more than $550 in the tractor now including the AG's, so another $20 to make it right is ok with me. The engine runs good and the transmission shifts good and does not make unwanted noise.
  34. 2 points
    Van, the pulley you have came from ACE or TSC. The one you want is #1611. It is like the one Bert is holding, and if you scroll down in that link that Oliver2-44 gave you...you will see he has a box marked #1611 there. I think all the pulleys this guy has are NOS.
  35. 2 points
    Great to see another one back running Now you have to go get another one for the tranny! Trouble shooting is such a valuable skill that can carry over to ever part of our lives. Industry gurus say 90% of the time the problem is some thing simple.
  36. 2 points
    A member has a lot of pulleys for sale in this ad
  37. 2 points
    You can also get cast iron pulleys at a electric motor supply outfit.
  38. 2 points
    Nah, just north into a foreign country, Illinois.
  39. 2 points
    Nothing like a guy helping a fellow member get a nice ....kudos T-Mo
  40. 2 points
    My own opinion? 5 year old battery.You wrote that it has a car battery? Where did it fit?Possibly positive cable touching something and grounding it out? Buy the correct battery.
  41. 2 points
    I agree with Mike on this Van every pulley I have ever seen It was cast . But if you can put in a key. Try and see how it works going up hills the true test.
  42. 2 points
    Did you check the fuses ? Wayne
  43. 2 points
    If something is working then all of a sudden it's NOT, you gotta look at something real simple, like switches and safety devices. A simple $2 switch will indeed shut down your machine, a bad connection on a switch is a "shut down" waiting to happen. Being the proud new owner of a C series (whats not to be proud of ! ) part of the process of getting it yard ready includes checking/cleaning all wiring connections as well as cleaning and checking connectors on the safety switches and as mentioned above the PTO engaging. Did you ever have a car that wouldn't start because the battery terminals were loose ? I wonder how many people bought new batteries for that ! maintenance is about everything,including wiring and switches not just the obvious stuff. Don't forget, the C series is in the 35 year old window now. Great machine, let us know what the issue was !
  44. 2 points
    I don't know if they were "mad" in 1980 - 84, but they were "made" during that time period!
  45. 2 points
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  46. 2 points
    It's an awesome magazine , the owner / editor is a member here , I'm pretty sure you will not find the mag on the shelf anywhere , you can subscribe via there wed site or you can like them on Facebook . Well worth subscribing . Many members here ar REDSQUARE have had articles written about their machines , even myself have appeared in it & I live in UK.
  47. 2 points
    Hmmm, I did feel rather excited and euphoric after getting her running with Wallfishes palming technique. I thought I was just happy to hear it run, but now that I think about it, this is the first time my hands haven't ached with arthritis in 20 years.
  48. 2 points
    Everyone is basically saying the same thing...and I agree. My left leg would actually ache after clearing snow in my driveway...from all the shifting with my 857. My 876 hydro makes clearing snow a dream. Also, if your wife has a ton of pink flamingos in the front yard, the hydro is the only way to cut the grass and still be able to walk afterwards. If you have a good sized yard, with nothing to mow around, I would go with the manual transmission...just because that is easier to fix if something breaks.
  49. 2 points
    If you want to pull a 10" plow I would go with a gear jammer, they work best for ground engagement tools. For mowing or snow blowing I'd rather have a hydro any day.
  50. 2 points
    I have a 1974 C 120 with the Sunstrand hydro everything works great but I just don't like the hydro trans. I have a 1987 310-8 , 1988 416-8 and the first horse was a 1972 Commando 800 gear trans. I'll take a gear trans over a hydro any time. Just my
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