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Rescued this bad boy out of a drafty old Connecticut barn today!

Getting there with the Commando 8. Going thru it from front to the back. I finally got it running. Waiting for the new carb to come in It has the original on it now. Thanks for looking.

I think it is the buyers of these products that got there money's worth...times ten.

Gimme about 3 1/2 more hours and I'll ponder all this at cocktail hour ... I can see you guys started a little early!

Was able to get the valves adjusted and the top of my 520's Onan reassembled today. Left all the exhaust tins loosely mounted until I got the spacing around the intake right, then tightened it down to eliminate any contact there. All that detail work will disapper once the air cleaner assembly gets mou nted. Thing has never been a show tractor, so it's no big deal. Just happy it's routine maintence is getting done. A complete fluids and filters change tomorrow, then it'll finally be ready to blow some snow.

I mentioned last week that I might be looking at a couple of tractors, a GT 14 and 1054. Well today I picked them up and plan to work on them this spring. The tractors appear to be complete except for no pto on the GT 14. The tractors have been stored inside and were caught in a flash flood a couple of years ago. I will wash and clean them up before I start working on them. I noticed today that one has a sediment bowl at the tank and I actually got a key with the 1054. The deck turns on the 1054 but is rusted. I will be hitting the files here and asking lots of questions. Can someone tell me what year are these tractors? Merry Christmas!!

Actually, I think Wheel Horse and Kohler both produced themselves nearly out of business. The Ponds were smart enough to sell at the pinnacle of the brand's reputation. Kohler "innovated", and now what they produce is disposable junk. Pot metal blocks and plastic gears with not the first bearing anywhere. That being said, the past was a fantastic thing for us consumers, and it continues to this day. Imagine if everything was manufactured with decades of service built into it!

Just using what I had I made this little plate hanger to go in my 2” receiver hitch. It weighs like 75 lbs now but I have a couple more plates I could add. didnt want to add any length to the back of the tractor and it will be a strong number if I back into anything. Those 2 plates are 10x12x 3/4 steel leftovers from flitch plates on my jobs. I could prob hang a suitcase weight off it if I came across some of them too. Also considered making a basket for a couple solid concrete blocks too because it could just bolt on but going to try this for now. Fun little project and should get some more weeight on the back tires for plowing. Want to add another plate and a 2nd set or larger set of wheel weights.

Many times Dino many.... since there was no booze on board tho I always just thought it was too much blood in my alcohol system.

Yes. I haven't had any luck with new carbs. Fix the old one.

There is a couple who live just outside of town. I am going to guess, in their 30's. She is a school teacher. He does something techy, I'm not sure. When they got married, 10 - 15 years ago, they headed east for the honeymoon. On the drive back home they stopped somewhere in Pa for gas, snacks, lottery tickets, "pit stop", whatever, and continued home. When they got home, she continued teaching school, he did techy things. Lo and behold one of those lottery tickets hit. To the tune of $47,000,000.00. That's MILLION !In the last 3 years or so, he has been buying up empty buildings up town and refurbishing them. Nicely to boot. Empty brick building are getting tuck pointed, all new windows and doors, roofs, the works. I mean a lot of buildings. Old shoe store, appliance business, TV shop, printing office, and more. The old Jr High School is now an apartment building. The old "Carnegie" library is some type of teaching academy for computers I think. Most of the buildings it seems will be used for "techy" things, again, I'm not sure. Still, 10 or so years after that honeymoon, she is still a school teacher, he still does techy things. It is quite a transformation to see buildings that have sat empty for years, not only being used, but put back to their original splendor. A lot of small towns could use an up-lift like this, but I'm sad to report, I have heard no rumors about a new hardware store. Can't have everything.

No you couldn't, because the kid behind the register wouldn't be able to find a "code" on the computer for that transaction. My very local independent car mechanic sometimes happily accepts a batch of my daughter's home-baked chocolate chip cookies as payment.

Case in point. I love my ACE Hardware but they sell bolts by the piece. TSC sells bolts by the pound. Much cheaper at TSC, but ACE has a better variety of fasteners.

But if feel so inclined please take lots of pictures!

Nope just a 2 wheel drive. 454 with 4 speed behind it. I'm pretty sure I've got it all figured out and a list of parts to order. Now just have to convince myself that the old clunker is worth sinking $1300 into Should be good to go for a while once I do though. Planning on replacing everything suspension wise from front to back. I noticed earlier in the week when I was doing U-Joints that I've got a broken leaf in one of the rear springs, so gonna go ahead and replace both rear springs, new coils in the front, new shocks, and everything else. Should ride like a new truck once I'm done.

So gang, it's Christmas time and my company has extended its forced vacation to two weeks, sucking 7 days of FTO from me. I've got all kinds of things to do for the wifey-poo but what the heck can I do for me? I've got two K301s so may as well get out the surgical tools and do a b-gearectomy. The C-125 goes first. Restored that back in '17 and so she's got maybe 75 hours on her. It'll be rather painless and the youngster is visiting so can assist in getting that b-itch up onto the bench. She's already been moved to the garage and the old Kawi and its carb parts moved back to the shed while I search for tiny o-rings. Wish me luck and pics to come. Oh, there is no rattle BUT she's always had a minor knock I chalk-up to excessive end play (didn't measure it back then 'cause I'm bad but, dang!, will now).

It was 12-21-2012 when we all survived the end of the world. Who could forget? So now 9 years later on this day of the winter solitice I took a couple scientific notations. I marked my flag's shadow on the ground to show where the sun was in the sky and I measured a 11'5 shadow from my 5'8 frame at high noon. So what went wrong with that crazy Mayan prediction or more correctly their calculation? Nothing! Their 26,000 year measure was right on target when the earth crossed the plane of our MilkyWay galaxy. Earth does not have a stable position, instead it wobbels as if it bounces up and down on it's 240 million year journey around the galaxy. It was only the end of a cycle. The Mayan civilization was about a 1000 years ago and their observations so precise their 3 part calendar measured astrological events. And today the 5126 year section cycled out. I'm so impressed that these two dates and Appllo 11 occured in my lifetime. As I wrote this I discovered the precise time the sun was directly over the Tropic of Cancer was 10:29am. That ruins my calendar project. https://hhsancientmaya.weebly.com/calendar.html

I just drove the pin out on the top gear on a K321, then drove the pin back in after. Moves surprisingly easy! I didn't want to introduce broken shards of cast iron into an engine that was going right back together.

I envy you being in places where you can look up and see that, Jim. I had that stationed in Maine in the 70's, but I can't get away from the light anymore around here. Sometimes, up in the UP, Michigan we could do that. Fishing trips to Canada- Lac Soul was great for star viewing. New Mexico, Philmont Scout Ranch was top notch also.

Lots cheaper this way but you do have to lift the engine to do it

Fascinating things going on there. Without looking it up...that passing of the Earth through the plane of the galaxy happens every so often. Looking back, that event matches up with many significant changes...like the dinos passing, the ice age, and others.

Looks good! What wrong with original carb?

This is with all safety switches are operating correctly. Brake/clutch pedal depressed. PTO off.

Despite many of us being retired, you will find you are conversing mostly with little kids.

Been drooling over this thing since the first time I ever laid eyes on it. Plus, to have all of the original paperwork, bill of sale, and factory sales brochure from 1953 is priceless to me. What a friggin score, this is the stuff that rarely survives. Now, ol' buddy, we just gotta find that original post from back when you first found it to complete it's RedSquare provinance. 🤞 Thanks so much Steve! I still can't believe I now own this super rare piece of our Wheel-Horse history. 1953!

If your eaton is faster forward than your sunstrand you sunny must be getting tired. The eaton should be faster in reverse... From WH Owners manuals Charger Electro (and I assume sunstrand C series) forward 7mph rev 3.5 Eaton 300/400 (excl 418C) 7 mph and 4.5 mph GT14 7.5 Mph and 3.5 8 speed 400 series 5.5 and 2.6 300 series 5.3 and 2.5 856 3 speed 3.0 and 2.5

I decided to part with my 1953 pond walk behind. I knew who the right guy would be to be the next caretaker. Enjoy it buddy!!

The lumber yard in my village is like that, selling by the piece, so we always made the extra stop at the local TSC or the Farm and Home because they sell by the pound. When you're building houses by the piece that can get expensive.

Used to do that all the time when I worked at a Napa. Many times I would leave the store if a shop had a problem fixing something. "Hey Louie, you're putting the muffler on backwards" that sort of stuff. One time a good customer had to cut off a caliper from a car it was so seized. It was a $175 core and being cut it wasn't a good core. He paid me$ 20 to go to a local yard to get him a core off of another car. (I was going there anyway.) Later on when I worked at our local hospital, generator batteries had to be swapped out every 2 years. So we ended up with a lot of good batteries. We bought the new ones from the store I worked at so we would bring in junk batteries from home for cores and take the good generator batteries home. For years I had a group 31 battery on a cart as my "jump pack"

It is my impression, that a hydro has a faster reverse speed than a gear-jammer. I may be wrong about that, but since I've been using hydros, my time in the saddle is markedly less. Whether that's just not having to shift constantly or improved speed is debatable. I also do quite a bit of backing because of my situation and the areas I have to pile and push snow.

I too try to support the local Ma & Pa small businesses nearby. I have 2 great outdoor power outlets nearby - I prefer to buy from them over online IF their price for OEM parts is competitive - usually is. I had an exceptional auto parts store 3 blocks from my house a few years ago until the death of the owner and this satellite store closed. They were a true automotive jobber - dealt mostly with area repair garages and they knew their stuff. They also had a walk in counter for retail sales at a discounted price for frequent customers, like me. Two quick stories why I miss them - I ordered some parts on a Friday for a Sunday afternoon repair - all but one part came in on Saturday and it would arrive Monday - they had the other part sent to their largest store where I picked it up Sunday morning. When my son was in his twenties he used to buy and flip $200 or so cars - each was given 30 days to sit on the edge of the lawn - if not gone by then I got rid of it!! Day 28 and I needed a battery for a sweet first year Ranger, a 1984 . Went to see these guys with a tape measure and multimeter to look over the pallet of used batteries that customers had exchanged - found one that looked like it would hold a charge and they said I could swap it with the one from the Ranger - no charge - they just need the correct count of cores. Bought them a dozen donuts for the favor. Doubt you could do that a a large chain store today... Bill

EB. You’re reading the lines… not between ‘em. He just told you HOW to make it faster! Get you a 1/2” drill bit and get to tuning!

Oh yeah. Seems to work fine. Of course it's the first Hydro I've ever driven so I don't really know for sure but it's definitely faster than the 8-speed in reverse. So don't mess with it. You're saying I should NOT get out the hammer and chisel? 😂

I always just power wash them with some degreaser. Then after I clean every nook and cranny with a toothbrush I rub it all down with boiled linseed oil. On the 500 Special I only painted the wheels and the plow. Changed the seat.. The rest of it is all elbow grease. People think the paint won't come back but it will with some work.

Started cleaning these up!

None from the muffler. All the heat from the rear cylinder on the P220 Onan. The foot control and the heated cab. = two free warm hands. Right one steers and left one operates the lift.

I will admit that driving out the pin requires further disassembly in the fact that the PTO pulley may have to be removed, and that can be easy or can be an absolute nightmare if it has red welded over time. The thin side of the balance gear should snap pretty easy. My previous comment about cast iron pieces was speculative, because I haven't done it that way myself. Getting that top snap ring out is harder than any of the other options mentioned here!

after seeing some posts yesterday about homemade leaf blower attachments I picked this up from the local junkyard. It was a bagger blower off a old husky zero turn. Y’all think it’s a good candidate for conversion into a tractor driven leaf blower? It was pretty much new and close to free to me so if the junk man needs to take it so be it.

Well to beat up on sealed transmissions a little more let’s talk about where auto manufactures are going. My wife’s 2016 Lexus RX350 SUV and my sons 2018 Toyota SUB essentially have a sealed transmissions. No dipstick to check fluid, Manual says do not change oil or filter. Others manufactures are doing the same. I just shot a Doe (sausage meat). Got to go to work now!

I used to go down to the Sampson Naval Base (Now a state park) and be able to get away from the light. The first time I did it I couldn't believe it.

Agreed Steve. 1968 53 years I would say yes.

Good timing..."How the Universe Works" is on the Science Channel all day today.

Shim to none.

Looks like one of these https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/search/?q="tiller 24in"&quick=1

I am not familiar with a B-100. I don't even know if you have manual or electric PTO. Do you have a PTO switch? Did the tractor turn over before the tune up? The first thing you could do is by-pass all safety switches for testing. PUT TRACTOR IN NEUTRAL PUT TRACTOR IN NEUTRAL PUT TRACTOR IN NEUTRAL Using a jumper wire, Any old piece of wire, is jump,the solenoid. The solenoid should have two large cables on it and one small wire. One cable to the battery, the other to the starter. The small wire, don't worry about it yet. Using your jumper wire, jump from the large cable coming from the battery to the post with the small wire. LEAVE YOUR KEY OFF! (one problem at time here). If the motor tuns over, then you have to find the open circuit. PTO interlock switch? Clutch pedal switch? Bad ignition switch? Bad ground or other connection ? The wiring diagram I am looking at shows a seat switch. While this could prevent your motor from starting, I don't believe it would prevent it from turning over. If after conducting the above test, it still won't turn over, use your jumper cables from your car. Black to battery NEG ( - ), red to battery POS ( + ) Other end of black cable to a GOOD ground some where on the motor. Other end of red cable to the post directly on the starter. Do these thing, note results, and post again. The file below has a complete wiring diagram for a 1977 B-100 8 speed. This manual shows an electric clutch. I don't know if you have that or not. Click on the pic, it will open. And of course.... to

I use satin, rattle can Rustoleum…

The Wheel Horse weights weigh 55# each. I don't know what brand the weights on the left are but they don't make it a mystery as to what they weigh. Both will work with your lugnuts.

Find someone who has some steel shot that you can pour in with the concrete? Now that I think of it, I’m pretty sure Putt Putt’s front hanging weight (that is concrete filled) also has shot in the mix.

I really gotta start checking in here more often This is my B-100, also known as the B-1 bomber. Theres a ton of mods on it, but as far as mods to make it hold up, very little needs to be done to a Horse. How crazy are you planning to get with it? As for 'absolute must have mods' as follows: Lock the diff! If you have an 8 pinion, you can absolutely flip them and call it a day- I have put mine through h-e-double hockey sticks and zero issues. Front spindles need to be the bolt style to hold wheels on, not clips. Also not a bad idea to drill and tap the tops of the spindles and use a big washer to hold them in place in the axle as well. Beef/brace up the steering arms where they attach to the spindle- this is a weak point, and if you jam a tire against something, you WILL snap it off. Tie rods- whip up a set with heim ends. Trans/frame brace- this is a weak point even on stock Horses that get used hard, lots of info out there for this mod. Your rear hubs WILL come loose, especially being locked up in rear- thats a ton of stress. At the very minimum install new locking screws and check them every ride. Better yet, clean the hubs and axles spotless and use loctite green 'sleeve retainer'- they will never move again. Yes you'll need heat to disassemble if the need arises. You can get a 26" rear tire under them if you're willing to 'roll' the fender lips a bit and perhaps trim the floorboard/fender meeting point. Most guys run 25s. I run the stock rear brake and have had no issues, but I also dont ride it to slow down on high speed runs and chance overheating it. If you plan to get into some serious mud, you'll have belt slip issues. 'Creepycrawler' came up with a killer idler setup to put more tension and wrap on the trans pulley and it makes the clutch as smoothe as most cars. Drill small holes in trans pulley to relieve trapped water/mud, and no smaller than 4.5-5" pulley. Also run a 1/2" belt. Yes. Much smoother action. Take a peek at the youtube vids, Creepycrawler and Giverthebeans97 are both strong Wheel Horse guys and post up lots of modification vids. I am 'Captain 315' but dont have a ton of stuff up yet.

After the new foot control, add the heated cab. Yep, that's a toasty 60F.