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so here's a couple of vids i did while back in the spring with my new gretsch guitar and i'm a lefty

The best thing about being an odd ball is no one takes you seriously. Ask my wife.

here's another a old chuck berry tune lol

Gary A few pics of my 654 (or 604?) with original (no you can't have it ) Techy. Thing starts first pull and run well which is amazing for a Techy. I was threatened to be castrated by the fellas if I touched the patina. I was severely admonished just for knocking off the barn dust! Pay no never mind to the 502 belt guard, it was MIA but I managed to find one that worked at the Big Show with matching patina.

Hmmm - not really TucTuc was used in India therefore but - tuc tuc tuc was that sound i have in ear, if i remeber the last try of fire up the Engine so tuc tuc tuc make sense... 😂

Not sure if this can be proven, but I think the English to German translation of Putt Putt is Tuc Tuc!

Clean it up and see what you have. I would use a Scotch-Brite pad as apposed to sand paper as it won't remove any good metal. Use it with your choice of WD 40 or Boiled Linseed Oil I use PB-Blaster With Scotch- Brite Pads. I'm not apposed to a new coat of Red paint when required to save a Horse from rust. I would also be in agreement with using a 6 or 7 horse K-Kohler as a replacement engine. I'm fixing up my 80 Toyota 4X4 that still pretty much stock but I have been working on a new coat of paint original color Red of course. It's your Wheel Horse we will be happy to see to saved. Just don't use Green and Yellow, I have one of those to, it was my Dad's [ !959 430 farm tractor ] I wouldn't paint it red either.

Here are my drawings i did ahead, once the FEL once the Collar Bearing with double pulley's. The drawing of FEL was before i was purchasing the Hydraulic Parts at all.

As a load is applied to the belt the bottom span will get real tight and the top span will get looser. With the idler on the bottom that will apply a lot of pressure on the idler and the spring holding it there will lose it's tension as the idler is pushed down by a tighter belt. With the idler on the top the spring only has to take up the lose belt that the increased load generates. A V-idler inside the belt at the bottom would still get a lot of pressure but the spring tension would increase in your favor. Problem with that is the amount of belt in the pulley grooves is reduced and increases the chance of belt slippage. A belt guard must support the tight or drive side of the belt when the belt is loose for the clutch to be effective. Doing so leaves the top span of belt with lots of slack so it leaves the engine pulley and ceases to drive. Garry

Because of my troubles (oil spill) with the old Onan engine i ordered at Onanengines.com a Gasket kit. It arrives quickly ( thanks therefore) and i prepare for Oilchange. To Change the Oil, i fired up the Engine, but after few seconds a loud ploink sound occurs, and the Engine Stalls. When i fired the Engine again, nothing happen just a tuc tuc tuc - and a lot of oil and a bit of gasoline run's out over the Exhaust. A closer investigation show's, that the Cylinder Head and even the Cylinder self has a rip of about 1,5 cm over both parts. What was the Reason for? It's hard to say, maybe while it was in a burning Barn, maybe about fire distinguisher - who knows. Take a long story short, i decided to swap the Engine. First i ordered a brandnew Engine - Loncin Brand . Today it arrives in qualified enclosure and ready for swap. Additional because i build my FEL quickly, i just try firstly with a Power Steering pump. So far the System can work, (tested by Makita) 😎 but i missed the direction check ahead. So i could not use it without strong workarround. Next Step was to order a right directed Hydraulic pump and adapted it quickly to the Drive pulley of the Gear. My Test results surprises me, with a complete released front Axle, i am able to lift about 700 Kilos, what i stopped urgently, because the little Tractor begins to lift its back. A damn dangerous situation at all, but now i know - there is more than enough Power from the Hydraulics itself.👍 I just wanna Lift about 100-150 Kilos no more. So i reduced the Hydraulic pressure on the Valve. The only issue i have further, is that i coupled the hydraulic pump direct to the Drive pulley. That means - stay on clutch, no Hydraulics at all, not very senseful. To solve this issue, i plan to move the Pump forward ahead of the Seat and mount mount under the Plate a collar bearing. On this Collar bearing i planing a double pulley, where one comeing directly from Engine and the other working as usual with the Original Belt clutch. So i hope all functions can be implemented with a senseful using. I worked now a lot ahead, about measurement and graphical Engineering to solve that. Hope that i can next weekend in my Buddy's Workshop, to finalize the Swap. This WE is impossible... Stay tuned Stefan

Happy birthday Kate!!! Thanks for all you do to promote the preservation of garden tractors. Hope you have a great day!!

If you you ever want to be buried with your money, hand it to me in cash and I’ll send you a 100% honest check in your casket! Sorry, had to!

I wish the best for him, he was so gracious to my girls at Scott’s plow day!

@roadapples yes, youre right, but i want not take the Load on the Axle, therefore i planning also wheelweights. thinkin on old Brakedrums and fill with concrete. But first the implementation must be made, and brakedrums has to be found, they are usable. i got an idea, but must see if it fit's - next time at the scapyard. i think tuc tuc tuc shall be the new name (maybe stolen at put put) 😂

Save the wish bone! Thanksgiving is near!

Thank you Richie for the nice description and pics of the sundstrand motion control ' what a big help I was lubing the sh.. out of them to no avail. now if will rectify the problem/

H eres handle for dump bed. Note this trailer isn't going to be a show trailer but a worker. I still have lots of patching to do. One top of a side is bent pretty bad I am going to cut it out and put new metal in.

So I recently took this tractor to Tecumseh Trails in Ohio to meet up with a few other guys who also ride all terrain lawn tractors. I made a video about the trip. Enjoy!

Didn't work well for me. I had the same problem. Clutch would only engage if I played around with the wires. Finally I removed the coil from the housing and tried soldering the wires in the coil, but it just kept shorting at the next weakest place. After soldering several different places I finally gave up. Called a local electric motor repair shop that would make and install a new coil in the old housing but the price was salty. I wanted to keep the machine original, so I was ready to pay to have it done when someone here offered me a used one. That was a year ago and I'm still up and running. Repair is worth a try though if you have a little patients! You could try an electric motor repair shop in your area. Perhaps they might be a little easier on your wallet! Good Luck!! Gary

I fixed one off an Ariens with that problem, ground the epoxy out around the wire repaired it . Verified it worked and refilled epoxy area.

Was thinkin the same thing 'fish...it's already broke! Go for it Richard nothing ventured nothin gained.

well believe it or not i was a elvis vocalist for 25 years i just got out of a 14 year marriage and started to playing again......hadn't picked up a guitar in 3 years and played a piano for a while jerry lee lewis stuff ......i love boogie and rockabilly music would love to get down to the big show and show off the ol'953 lol write a wheel horse tractor song lol

There's one way to find out. It's already broke so you got noth'n to loose by pulling it apart to see if you can fix it.

I just can give you a simple Advice, start a project and learn with it and never give up to solve it. Here in this Forum are such a mass of knowleged Guy's, i' sure include mine everybody will help you as much as they can. If neccessary, ask for help or guidance, it's never too late to learn something. i'm over 50, so my skills are not at beginning present. I started when i was a young guy with simple projects and improve my knowledge. do a lot of try's - somtimes they miss, somtimes they stay, you can just learn about. but don't start a too large project, take it in simple steps - one by one. i'll be sure, you will made it! Go on!

Thanks for compliments, it was firstly just a proof of concept, but while it's working much better then i ever expected, i will improove it. I'm really proud of my Design! Iam also proud that my first WIG Welding is that stable. To be honest, most of Welding did a collegue, but he guides me in WIG Welding and i did 2 of the most loaded parts. The first stability and Lift tests and also the heavy pull, i did with different shorter front Arms, but the both levers are the same as doing the Lift tests. They bend a bit what i expected, but not as much as i fear. Even if i lifted the Back of my own Car on the Trailerhook with released front axle on the tractor, it bend's a bit but gets nearly back to normal. 1mm difference was measured and this can be also a measurement failure. All together it's extremly leight weight ( the complete FEL including shovel and all cylinders) weights actually less than 27 Kilos. and lift's with me in the seat 160 Kilo on the backside on the Shovel fixed by Belts without any added weight. Try it with a rock - think i can say it was " Rock Solid" 😂 It only become a bit instable if i move the weight (more as 100 Kilos) to much sideway's. But that's ok, because i know about maybe solve this issue later on.😎

I used the compressed air method and it worked but not without great effort and French. Mine was badly rusted tho, so much so the cylinder was pitted and unusable. Lowell http://www.wheelhorsepartsandmore.com/ has parts.

chances are there is some rust on the interior of the cylinder. if you can get the cylinder shaft extended to its full extended position, put the yoke in a bench vise.... slide the shaft inward a ways, then with both hands on the cylinder housing, slam the cylinder toward the extended position as hard as you can. there is nothing internal holding the ends but the threaded elbows or nipple into the end caps. if you then get the shaft end removed, take a piece of broom handle, or something similar, and hammer on the inside to remove the other end plug. I did this with three of them, and all went well.

Hi Low range shift fork and axles

Looking much better. If the trailer is going to be a worker then a bit of a bend left in is really no big deal. A big dead blow hammer might fix it right up.

I’ll plan to change this as soon as I get out to the shop again, thanks again for the explanations guys!

Thanks for the info, I will take some detailed pictures and post them this weekend but the blower pictured in the attachment looks similar but is a bit different then mine but I could be missing some parts.

Success in top pic you can see side is bent. I cut it out and put it in a vice was able to straighten the price and welded it back in. I got a Chicago electric 125 amp wire welder does a decent job. In process of grinding down welds. I do little sections at a time to avoid warping in sheet metal when welding. And yes side isn't perfect lol

Lol the first dump cart I bought at scrapyard for 30 bucks (which is now fixed up). At same one a month later I paid 40 for this lol

hey if the shift rails are good and and if yuo can spare 4 pinions i'll buy them from you

must be having a on that question!

I’d save all the parts!

Nice score Ryan!! Every one should have one odd ball in their line up. The Mafia group has @WHX21 . If I remember right those Amigo's had kind of a strange transmission set up. Looking forward to checking it out in person.

This just popped up fairly local. Have a text into the guy to discuss but no call back yet. Think it would make a nice little show cruiser for the Missus which is what he used it for. Still has the deck as well. Asking 500 for it which I think might be fair what with 3 new batteries?? Said to be a '69? We are offering for sale a real nice vintage (antique ?) 1969 Wheel Horse (Wheelhorse) A-60 (A60) riding lawn mower with $300 of NEW batteries installed. This one looks to be in original condition and runs and drives very well. We bought it to use as a flea maket, swap meet, get-around. As such, we removed the blade deck and installed the Coca-Cola open what-not trunk. We still have the blade deck in storage, which worked well when it was removed. We cleaned it up, put a new rubber floor mat in it, put new front tires on it, and just installed the (3) new deep-cycle batteries. It has an on-board, built-in battery charger. All you have to do is plug it in. It has a 6-speed linear shift-on-the-go type of mechanical transmission. We have really enjoyed it as on-grounds transportation and have mixed feelings about selling it. It will go all weekend as our get-around without needing recharging or slowing down. We did wash it before we took the photos, and it was still wet. The paint is not as glossy as it appears in the pictures, when it is dry. While this rider is very clean and runs and drives like well with brand new batteries, it is still a 40-ish-year-old mechanical, electrical item and thus, is being sold as is, where is, with now guarantees or warranties.

The weather person is forecasting frost soon so.. time to harvest. Not sure what I’m going to do with this lot, early Christmas presents perhaps. Thelma Sanders Blue banana Queensland blue Victor Thelma Sanders is a favourite of ours the others are new this year, time to find out if they taste any good !!

Hello all new to this forum. I have always loved Wheel Horse tractors as I live in the town where they used to be made. I have had a few over my life but I have the honor of being a third generation care taker of my grandfathers tractor which was bought new by him used by my father and now my father is getting to the age where he can't take care of it anymore and has passed it down to me. The only thing I need to find to make it all original again is the 6 horse tech/lauson engine for it as it has been transplanted with a different make of motor. Here is a picture of it coming out of hiding and going to be heading to my garage for a little tlc

His axles are 1 1/8"...if you are going to send him just the pinions...count the teeth just to make sure they are the same. The pinions should be the same. The axle length could be different though. :)

Thank you for the great suggestions, I will try tonight!

Model A I have had a few a these fine little tractors. 65/66/ and 67`s They can do a days work. I found it better to run them more often than not. They like to be runed. It is all in the carb works also use good quality fuel line. Enjoy it take care of it and it will take care of you. Also enjoy the site lots of good info here.

Up is engaged

Very nice find!

What I typically see

Happy Happy Tigger

I do too El ....that's why I have to crunch numbers half the day and then hop in a service truck and go into nasty cat crap filled dungeons of a basement to try and fix a POS furnace.... you have a tendency to charge like the dickens to be able to have some coin to pay the bills and have some disposal income to be able to purchase such a beaut. The next service call on Christmas eve will pay for her and then some. Did I mention sometimes 16 hour work days Jimbo? Did I mention eating beans and franks 7 days a week in my younger days so my land was paid off well in advance EB? I other words if you got it.... spend it..ain't never saw a dead man being buried with his money!

Thanks for the info. Daryl. Like most on the site the electric model seems a bit like hens teeth to find. Being north of the border (Ontario Canada) can't imagine setting eyes on another one. I think a weight box off the rear would help with the steering problem. I'd be looking at around $110 ish or more cdn. for each good marine grade deep cycle battery. So taxed out I'm at $752.00 just to get it moving. If it doesn't move or the charging system is not working then ouch. I am still in interested it but need to make sure all the motors work and the charging system Is solid. I'm presuming the're brushed motors and nothing too exotic to replace the brushes. https://rbwheelhorsestables.yolasite.com is the only other place I've seen one. This guy's place is truly unbelievable. Walk aways, Ride aways even a dozer...... and more. I think at sometime he has had at least one of every model there was. A retired auto body guy he took them to better than new. I will probably go see the E141 again with 3 car batteries in tow. Until then, thanks again. Gary

Finally got these 2 kits for the 1982 SB & SK models listed