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My next door neighbor has now accused me of discrimination against the neighborhood animals since I seem only to build houses and feeders for the birds. He is now demanding a few of these to start making things right.

After watching @Shynon complete his FEL project I felt it was time to start on my c160. This tractor is a great runner and a good work horse there are just some improvements I would like to make. The first and biggest upgrade to the tractor itself is gear reduction steering and a swept axle front end. I also plan on rebuilding the loader cyliders as i have bleed-down occuring with a load (valve assembly has already been rebuit) and finish plumbing in my hydraulic filter and maybe add a flow restrictor on the return side. I have also been throwing around making the weight box a little taller for extra weight as the tractor tends to get a little light in the rear with load in the bucket. So here is the candidate going under the knife, i mean wrench I got the loader off Then the subframe, belt guard and motor The front axle next In preparation for the new setup does anyone know the roll pin size for this steering wheel? Looks like i have a fight ahead but i need to get the pin out first. Thats it for tonight.

Mine are all up and running.

Maybe you could not discriminate and send them back to him

@ebinmaine I have to tell a story and you'll get my drift on "Relocation" Some years ago a beaver family built a brush dam just below the outlet structure at one of the companies steam plant cooling lakes. The brush dam was remove several times, with lots of company Enviromental supervision, but the beavers kept building it right back. Finally a State Wildlife expert was contacted and they sent a State Contracted Trapper out. The Trapper efficiently relocated those beavers and they were never seen again. The company Enviromental expert kept emailing me asking where he relocated them too? Each email I answered in a vague way. When the Enviromental expert didn't get the message I finally replied " He relocate them to 30/30 Winchester Lane".

Where's his little umbrella ?

To heck with numbers! I'm all in...ish

It sure is. Drove all the way from Wisconsin to Missouri to pick that one up from a fellow RS member. I plan on doing a full resto on it someday but it is a clean 20’ tractor for the time being—here’s three pics of it from a couple of years ago. I have a Cat 0 for it but am missing the upper bracket that attaches to the lift links. One of these days i’ll Locate or fabricate one of those. It makes a really fun parade tractor!

Ethanol pearls. Time for a thorough cleaning and non ethanol fuel. Gas line fuel filter rebuild a carb and flush out the tank.

Two years ago those thieving Gray devils completely cleaned off both of my Pecan Trees. They are no longer welcome here. There are way too many in my neighbor hood. I trapped and relocated over twenty of them, and I don't think I made a dent in their population. I at least got two 5 gallon buckets of Pecans, but I probable should have got 6. Sorry for my rant! Did I mention my wife makes great Pecan pies and wonderful Dew Berry pies.

Tell yer neighbors. ..

Yup, that is not complete, or was it just the Camping version of?

Rotten little thieving gray devils.... Let the neighbors spend their life savings making the squirrels fat.

My Mom just bought my Dad a Wheel Horse 310-8 for $400. Then the guy we bought it form is coming to get dads old mower a Craftsman and offered 100 for it. Thus we did a Craftsman trade in and paid $300. Guess from what I'm reading we got a great deal.

Sorry, I'm with @oliver2-44 & @ebinmaine. Those D@*% "tree rats" can find their own food, I'm not feeding them! I had those SOB's take residency in my attic once, they were not easy to evict. I would close a hole up with steel at 7:00am, they would have a new hole chewed along side the patch by 4:00pm.

I got 12 running today! Woo hoo! I was afraid I’d have to get them staged for daylight tomorrow but I made it! To get the fun blood flowing, I captured a picture of Chief throwing a tomahawk flame!

And cooler, grill, fire pit, lounge chairs...

I've only got one WH, but it does run.

All mine are operational ...... but do they count? I feel like I dont belong.

Kev, with all the stuff you have you would probably be better off investing in an Interstate Battery store.

OK OK I used an old picture, it is the only one I had with four . But I did get this badly derailed thread back on the tracks for a moment!

Hot Wheels is a Ninja. As far as I’m aware, he’s in my back barn right now. He’s like a Ninja mixed with Easter Bunny mixed with Santa he’s so fast!

Finally got to working on the mechanical end of Blackbeard yesterday when the kids had finished school. Zach and I routed the choke cable and I dabbled up a be longer support bracket for it. We got it fit in place and it works great. Then I downloaded a Kohler M16 manual to try and figure out why this tractor starts so hard and lacks power. I went through the carb settings and realized that I only had about half of the idle setting richness that I needed and about a quarter more on the main jet then what was needed. Then on to the Governor sensitivity adjustment...I was off by a hole there. Amazing the difference that made! Now it seems to start better and certainly idles better. As for power, I’ll let you know when I have a mower attached. Zach is pretty excited though!

If you pull the whole shaft with the dash and then slide the dash and the plastic sleeve down as far as they will go you can heat the shaft below the steering wheel and let the heat work up through the hub of the steering wheel. May need to do this more than once but the heat should do the trick to break up the rust.

This is too much fun! Hope this thread and pics may inspire someone else to scrounge their horse stables and slap one together

I have the same tractor and loader. I added trailer hubs, wheels and tires. Tires are 6 ply and hold 70 psi. They improved steering almost as much as the gear reduction...

Lol Mike.... I took inventory tonite ... I have 29 tractors including parts tractors. I normally don't include parts tractors but just for grins. So out of the 29 four are parts tractors. Out of 29 that are left then 25 I have actually had all but one running and driving. That one being the odd ball Amigo which I had running but not driving... and BTW all are electric start save for four of them. I also don't grind, hack, BFH, weld or cobble anything that would make any of the Ponds roll over in their graves... guess I just like or at least appreciate history so sue me....I gotta look the other way when Dan drills in old metal.

We're uhhhhh.... Not that uhh... Friendly....

So are you changing your handle to WHX-JR. or 1/2WHX24? Lets see what dad *cough* Jim has to say @WHX24??

I thought it was a hand mixer for big eggs.

There are more than enough old to go around, some people just have a bit of difficulty with sharing them with others. Hoarders!

Now he went and ruined it, that caster worked in conjunction with the shrub trimming port on the side.

Maybe to go around trees and shrubs quicker???

Sometimes I scuff primered parts with the red scotch brite pads, its a lot easier that sanding.

I use nonEthanol in all my light /infrequently used machines. However I use regular gas in the summer mowing tractors that are use regularly and have not had any carb issue. The bead and glop form when the regular gas sits. To the extent any forms in the tank it is filtered out before the carb The beads do not seem to form in the carb bowl if the machine is used frequently. Before they are put away for the winter the last fillup is with non=Ethanol and stabil

All of my tractors that start run....

Or convert everything to @pullstart...

Tell that to the judge...

So... @953 nut and @pullstart - Hotwheels has broken the Michigan stay home stay safe no travel rules huh...? I have notified the appropriate authorities, along with pictorial proof of said crime... tsk...tsk...

You actually paying attention to what day of the week it is EB? Hang in there buddy, and thanks for being essential! We couldn’t survive (here or in the world) without drivers like you!

Is there an ammeter? If so check connections there.

Here's my One way or another it will end up being taxed. Probably not directly to each individual that receives it and it will not ever be stated as such a tax for it, but believe me, some or all of us will be paying for it one way or another. I'll bet $1200.00 on that! Don't forget, the government always changes the rules as the game is being played too. By banking/saving and not spending the money, it basically defeats the purpose of the "stimulus" as the intention and purpose of it is to stimulate the economy by adding it into all the local economies where it is spent. If you don't need it, you should spend it anyway IMO or give it to someone in need, or dare to invest it. What a great time to be charitable if you don't actually need it. Use it for it's intended purpose and we should all be better off in the long run. Imagine the damage if everyone just saved it, now imagine the benefit if everyone spends it. The frivolous spending probably helps more than sending it to a mortgage company but being smart about it is even better. Buying a bunch of Chinese made trinkets at Walmart probably doesn't help as much as buying local produce when it's allowed again, hiring the local handyman, plumber, electrician etc, etc. to get those projects done or best of all, go buy those tractors off of Craigslist.

Not on return. Pretty sure you got a gear pump and they are positive displacement. A return restriction will stall the pump or pop hoses. etc. Should install in the circuit want to slow down. Of course it is going to slow down the curl side too. Was thinking.... if you installed a inline check and drilled a hole in the check plug, say 1/8", It would restrict one way and full flow the other. I am not sure is they make these or not. just food for thought. Then it would curl fast and dump slow. I have the same issue and looked at the same idea. I got the restrict-or never installed. I am still going down to idle when I want fine control. I used an 8 gpm pump, should have been good enough with a 6 or even a 4 gpm. I was also thinking of changing the pump pulley size too, but just thinking is all that happened. That is going to be an awesome machine, best of both worlds! C160 with power steering!

For a few years, I used gas additive...Stabil... and this is what I got in the carb. Now I use ONLY ethanol free...

What he said!! Ethanol fuel is terrible

The mower does say Wheel Horse on the control plate on the handlebar. On the shroud it says 22 Self Propelled. When my friend got it, it had been setting quite sometime. @oldredrider had to undo damage from being stored in a damp environment and source some pretty hard to get parts. I give him credit with how it runs! Here is a quick video of Emory trying it out in the front yard.

I was thinking it was Big Foot’s beard trimming comb... no? But seriously...that is cool. Learn something on this site every day...Occasionally about little red tractors...