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all looking good there Dan! Love those one of a kind hitch pins😉 We were out of town ministering at a church in the morning. Caleb sang a song while Kelli accompanied on the piano. It was really great to be back in church again! When we arrived home in the late afternoon Caleb, the little boys and I decided to get Comanche back together. It really looks funny without the battery and the S/G in there! I’ll let Caleb go into detail in his thread but it was fun to get some wrench time with my boys...

Got this old gem off Facebook Marketplace. Fellow had recently bought it and came to find it was simply too powerful for his apartment, as it would cause doors to slam and things to come flying off shelves.. 50's era Sears Homart 20" fan.. they claim it was rated at 4250cfm.. Two speeds and reversible, with a 12 hour timer as well. Heavy.. really heavy for what it is. Figured you'd find this old timer rather interesting.

Kind of a long day at work, then a ride out about an hour from here to look at some tractors (non-WH) that I thought could be flipped for some extra $$...not sure how that is going to work out yet. Got home and the wife had fishy taco’s made ! Now it’s time to relax with Red Square and a “Mikes” ( hey! That’s my name ) in my fav koozie.

Today was a sunny day. So I have been helping the neighbor girls rehab their Duck coop (ducks to come) and we got the horse out to stretch her legs and haul the coop where they girls wanted it. We added extra bracing, put doors back on with new hinges, repaired the roof, then the girls painted it. The two girls on the outside are the neighbor girls and the girl in the center is my granddaughter. Got the charging problem fixed, I think so of course had to get her out for awhile.

I started off my day with only one simple task in mind. I wanted to make a new rear fender brace for my 701. After I made my new part I looked around for some paint to shoot on it to protect it until I get around to giving this tractor a respectable paint job. For some odd reason I was out of my favorite Vansickle spray bombs & I did not feel like making a 1 hour round trip drive to get more. Instead I choose to make a 15 minute round trip to my local TSC and try some of their Majic brand paint. Given the dry time between coats on the Majic paint, I may have been further ahead to make the longer trip for my usual paint. Any way here is a pic of the fender brace that I made below the one that a PO made. Mine is much closer to the original shape. The Majic paint takes at least 1Hr between coats. While I was waiting I took on a few more projects. I decided to throw some paint on the belt guard that I had made for this tractor. And then I was waiting for paint again. I didn't like the fact that the seat that I have for this tractor is painted orange. Well lets start paint on another piece.I know that most square pan seats are painted red but seems this paint is only temporary I thought that I would see how a white square pan seat would look on the 701. And...still bored with down time while waiting for paint to dry enough for the next coat. Next project - for some reason people seem to like to "borrow" hitch pins from me when I'm at tractor shows. I have no idea how many store bought hitch pins that I have lost, but the pins that I have made myself always seem to make their way back to me. I figured I might as well make a couple hitch pins while I was waiting. This time it involved junk tranny parts & some 1/2"round stock. I think that they turned out OK. Rumor has it that there will be a small local tractor show next weekend. I would really like to go so to fill in more gaps between coats of paint I did some grooming on a couple of my show ponies. . If my calculations are right, the paint on my parts should be dry in about a month.

Hitch pins is precision work, other wise I would've used a cordless drill. I can assure you that each of the hitch pins that I made was precisely measured with a micrometer, marked with chalk, & then cut with an axe.

I have one of those lathes …..made by the Red Neck Machine Toll Co.

Me too, plus I use CAD to design it. Cardboard aided design!! Randy

Just turned 1000!

Well I power washed the ol 73 non name. Bought me a new ryobi powerwasher. I am impressed with the little guy!

Well I picked this up a couple weeks ago. It got me back into the club since I was left " Horseless" after having to sell the 3 that I had. I havent been able to make any progress on my Lambert project, I am still looking for an engine for it. So in my spare time I have been working on this C-161. It ran pretty good when I picked it up. The rear end fluid was low. Lights didnt work. Looked like a mess but over all pretty good. Since then I cleaned it pretty good. Did a little spray can touch up on the deck. Put a new seat on it. Had to buy a new air filter assembly. Bought new front head light lens and new tail light lens's from @76c12091520h. Got new decals from @Vinylguy Just today rewired the lights so they all work and changed the oil in the engine. All I have left that I want to do is change the rear end oil and ask all of your opinions on replacing the engine mounts with the rubber again or just use the spacers? Here some before and after photos cause I know how much we all like pictures.

Got the 07' 315 out for some mowing seat time, and the 77' B100 out as well.

I've got one a lot like it too but mine is labeled Hillbilly Solutions Corporation

Dan: looks like if you use that Magic paint while waiting for it to dry -you will get a lot more Wheel Horse jobs completed!

Here it is what it should look like

I put my feet on the square tube to create down-force. Digs 9 cm deep. Incredible job at 2.7 MPH. HA!

Thanks! I feel like myself again . Plus they say I can’t get the Covid again so I feel kinda invincible.

Took a little trip on Saturday morning (7hr roundtrip) to pick up this Delta DP220 drill press. The serial tag dates it 1947. I have a super cheap used taiwan drill press that just hasnt been up to snuff and I really have been wanting a heavy built press for quite a while now. Im gonna clean up some rust and leave the paint alone. I also need to make the power switch rod and bracket, if anyone has one dimensions of the rod that would be great! Boy she sure runs like a well oiled sewing machine!

HHHOOOWWWAAARRRDDD!!! and Buzz out helping trim some Pine & Cedars

That remines me of an Engineer I work with his BMW was a Chevy Love his "Blue Mangled Wreck" it had been hit a few times.

Well Emma got her first ride on a wheelhorse what better then the D-160. I love this little girl so much God has truly blessed me!

I dunno Lane …Dan's SWMBO says no more horseing around till a new roof on the house. How did you get those nice rounded ends on those hitch pins! Those are just plain cool! Save your shot 3rd gears guys and I'll talk him in going to production!

I agree. My first job, at 13, was at a Wheel Horse dealership. The first rule they taught me: If it's a fuel problem, remove, disassemble and clean the carburetor. Do NOT waste your time spraying carb cleaner and revving the throttle. Remove the carb, disassemble and clean. It takes about 15 minutes.

So this morning I took a drive to the dump and upon arrival I see a Wheel Horse 416-H sitting in the scrap pile. Walked over and it fired right up! The guy at the dump said the previous owner had enough of it and couldn’t make it drive he was done trouble shooting it. Apparently that went on for two years? Anyway I pushed it right onto my truck and got it home. Transaxle was full of the proper fluid so took belt guard off. There I find the issue a very stretched belt and the wrong spring on the tensioner. He had a small spring as seen on driver side brake band. So pulled that all off put a new belt on it with the proper spring and man oh man this thing cuts and works great. Now here are pictures of her and the beautiful job it did on the grass today.

Huh, Seems to be a crowd have the identical precision tool manufacturing company‘s - Whow. 👍😂 there are some snobs out here, they call my Lathe just a „Flexgrinder“. 😎

I was wondering if anyone could give me any information on my 1971 800 special. It is a great machine and i have the original deck and mule drive it was sold with and I am the 2nd owner. It is a strong running tractor that has been more of my play toy. It is all original except for that it does 25mph. I’m just looking for a brochure or manual or # of how many were made etc....

Mornin' everyone. i am very thankful for such quick replies. i was standing in the shop scratching my head, wondering where to start. My son said, "check you forum you joined. i smiled and said, they ain't gonna answer that fast. but to humor him, Welp, here i am. Got to admit, was very surprised when i logged in. I'm gonna get back at it with quite a few ideas now. I'll let everyone know what we find. Thanks again, and y'all have a good day and a better one tomorrow.

I had some paint made and put into a spray can a couple of years ago. Bear in mind I use this paint all the time. I bought a 701 that wasn't the correct red. I needed to paint the PTO parts. The paint reader at Napa was broke so we eyeballed it with a chip and they mixed it. It wouldn't dry. 6 month's later it was still soft! I went in and asked to look at the formula. ( I used to mix paint years ago) THERE WAS NO DRIER IN THE FORMULA! Who comes up with a formula for paint with no drier? I ended up stripping the paint off and traveling 30 miles to the Napa Paint store to get the tractor hood shot to get a decent formula. Turned out it was a Ford Red and with the proper drier the urethane enamel was dry in an hour. PS Majiac paint is good for painting trashcans and that's about it.

You won't damage anything Ed. But as an example: When I worked at GM garages on the 4 and 6 bangers they had 1 coil firing 2 cylinders. If you pulled a coil wire off you killed both cylinders to that coil. If a car came in with a skip we used a 12Volt test light. We would slip the probe between the wire boot and the wire on each cylinder. When the engine skip didn't change,we found the bad cylinder. We provided the ground thru the test light so the circuit was completed. At least on the GM DIS ignition the spark traveled as I mentioned. And I was taught that's how waste spark technology works. I'm sure it was all figured out in the ign module. It was pretty neat and simple to diagnose. Perhaps kohler and Onan modules separate the circuits and allow you to pull a wire off and not effect the other cylinder.

This is on a handsaw but rod should look the same. Bracket on drill press is just a loop. Refer to the thread above.

LOL I YouTubed searched " Wheel Horse Rubber Mounts" and I got this .............

New boots!

Today I was troubleshooting a blowing headlight fuse on my 1989 310-8. Both times it happened was after mowing with the lights on for 30 minutes+ so it was clearly an intermittent short. After two instances of me being an idiot: One: checking for voltage and not finding any when the battery was sitting on the bench behind me. Two: checking for shorts using a continuity meter set on beep and thinking my headlight was shorted to ground. (It is dummy, literally a high resistance short to ground) Anyway, after a lot of poking around, checking with a meter, being dumb, I found the black/blue wire under the engine was squished. I'm not positive, but I suspect it was the Attach-A-Matic. I cut the squished part out of the wire, stripped, soldered, shrink wrapped it. I just thought I'd post this here in case someone else has the same problem. Perhaps it's a common pinch point for the headlight wire on these models. Edit: Title word bad. :\

Yep my dad when he built his house in the sixties had a huge fan installed in the ceiling blew into attic just open the windows in the evening it would bring in the cool air we didn't have AC when I grew up

I just figured it out loose dipstick.

15 bales of cedar in the garden!

At 71, my mind still hasn't synchronized with my physical limitations. But have learned when not to volunteer and let the youth do the heavy lifting.

"I'm tractor heavy"

Today is her Birthday she turns 1 time really flyies by. I took her picture this morning she is such a happy baby! Her mommy finally got a job so now grandma and grandpa get to keep her more!!

I believe this engine uses "waste spark technology. Which means both plugs fire at the same time. Spark voltage leaves one coil, jumps the plug gap on that cyl to ground. Then it leaves ground on the opposite cyl. jumps the plug gap and returns to the opposite coil terminal completing a circuit. Removing 1 plug wire and just letting it hang may kill both cylinders. You may need to ground the plug wire you unhook. I do not know if this is true for the Onan ignition system. but every car I worked on with a single coil for 2 cylinders works this way.

i Feel with you, but even if i can‘t talk about tractors at home either, All my scenarios are still accepted once at my Wife and by the Landlady because they know if i have a piece of Hardware i will use it also for their needs. it‘s a Win win situation i can deal with. 👍

to the Archie. The twin should run on one cylinder. To determine if the problem is related to a cylinder, pull the plug wire off the rear cylinder and see if the engine will run on the front cyl only. Then reverse the procedure. If it is cylinder related, a compression check must be done.

You've done a beautiful job on this but you just have to do something with that kinked hose. It's going to give me bad dreams tonight. Try putting a spring inside it to help hold it's shape. Just make sure it can't drop into the pump.

Here is what I use.

I forgot to mention how I found the short. After inspecting everything under the battery, I put it back in and troubleshot it the old fashioned way. I turned the key and headlights on and jiggled wires. I heard the tell-tale sparkles from somewhere under the front frame rails. And smiled. Found you, you stinkin' why I oughta...

Figured I'd combine tasks today on some things between Cinnamon Horse and Colossus. I need the wide 3" wheel spacers that are currently on Cinnamon for use on Colossus. Also needed to realign the left hub of Cinnamon. I bought some 2" spacers to swap to Cinnamon. I figured while I had the wheels off I'd do both ... And... Do some rust removal from the rear wheels for Colossus. Turns out I did not have the right bolts to swap spacers but I got the other stuff done. Almost worked... 2 out of 3 ain't baaad. It's a little tough to see but I set the tractor in gear let the wheel turn while using an abrasive disc or wire brush to remove some naaaasty rust. While I was doing that Trina was working on another improvement for the chicken coop. She had added some plastic for drainage over the winter and wanted to change the land contour a little and bury the plastic. She used her favorite 867 Pig Pen and the mid mount grader blade to do some of the work. Here she is a few scrapes in. Mostly done. Note the pile of rocks she removed from the area. And that's only just a skimming of the surface. Putting it away... She said.... Well I had fun! A little outta order but here's a close-up of the wheel after rust removal

What a wheelhorse day! My wife wanted to learn how to mow, and now I can't get her off the thing... I think she's finding her Zen doing the lawn and some field mowing Then I decided to use red and black spray paint and do some decorative work on my mud mower. Painted the front wheel washers red to emulate the look I have going on the back wheel hub And I went a little crazy with the masking tape and did a star pattern on the fan shroud cover. I like it but imagine some won't What a great day too be outside though, Summer's finally here!