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Hello all! It's been a while since I posted . . . I live in FL now so it's 6 months of warm weather twice a year. I've been working part-time so between that, boating, motorcycles, mowing 5 acres and having a machete accident that set me back a few months, life got busy. Anyway, I live 40 minutes from Leesburg, FL. My wife and I attended shows/tractor-pulls at the Paquette IH Museum and grounds every year. Sadly, the owner Stew Paquette passed way in March this year. The family decided to sell the entire collection and grounds which was auctioned off last week. I didn't want to let a piece of Florida history get lost forever, so we bought one of the collection. We bought a 1940 Farmall H, that originally came from the collection of Richard "Pinky" Provost. His tractors ended up at the museum when he retired to FL and passed way in 2014. So, it's not a Wheel Horse, but IT IS RED! We picked it up last Friday. Oddly, this is what I originally wanted in 2010, but didn't have room for a big tractor when I lived in PA, so I went with Wheel Horses. Now I have room, so... I posted it here because the other thing I learned over the years is there is no other tractor forum as good as this one

Yep ... they come a lookin for me. First off the Dino bought over this fine little RR-55 for me. We batted back and forth some PMs about it and that I have no more room at the inn but it is in really good shape for a '65. The price was a four letter word but not to turn one away. @prondzy got it to pop abit but prolly needs a carb cleaning. Make matters worse i already have a RE-67 that is giving me fits. Oh well i found a stable for it 'till i can find some time to love it. Like a few others here I just have a soft spot for them.

Brought home a free to me head sanding plate. Left overs from a bath remodel my brother did.

This is an original 502. It was my Dad's. One piece tank, 13 hole round seat (the square seat was on the 702), no battery, but came with the rare tool tray where a battery would go, these are the original tires and the engine was a HT55C-3088P recoil 5.5 HP, had the 5025 transmission. The serial # on this is 62-18107. I'm not picking Jim's apart, it's hard to find the HT44C-3088P engine anymore and that tool tray is rare. Just saying what is original if Jim is going to try to make it original again.

Hood is in good shape and some working bug eyes on it . Now Dan back me up here... did the guy not say he had it running recently? Bullroar... battery was stone cold dead and dated to '05 . Dropped the bowl to find this... Gas in in it was more yellow and stank than Dan's pee. Just for S&Gs I wiped the bowl out and got it to run. Not bad for a tecky H60. No top end so something plugged yet. Not even gonna mess with it. Ordered a new one ... 9.99 cheap Chinese will be fine. 'Sides I may drop a 8 I have on this girl and have the rare 802.

So Dan and I went to a show abit ago and had a couple of guys to come up and tell us they have some horses they want to part with. Like most of the guys who say they have one they have no idea what it is. I give him my card and lo and behold he emails me with some pics of what appears to be a 502. So I says I get some time I'll come look at it. Easy 4 hour + round trip tho and was not real interested. Tractor heavy... no room at the inn ya know. But I mention to the guy about plow day and of course invite him. I be go to hell if he doesn't show up at the plow field with this girl in the back of an enclosed. So Dan and I were about ready to drop into a furrow and I says Dan let's go check this this tractor out before we get busy. So we do and after a bit of dickerin agree on a price. Has the plow you see and a decent shape 36? Or 32? RD deck. So who am I to pass on a roundy?

Heat stress for 1 thing. Quite often I find the bolt threads all goobered up from rust, carbon, gunk , carbunkles ect . Cheap (fairly cheap insurance)

If the toe is correct, drive the roll pins out and run a 5/16 bit though before you cut the welds apart

Hard to believe that three years have come and gone since my last post in this thread. I had the privilege to attend Jim&Cindy’s plow day VII this past Saturday and the plowing was great as was the weather. However, I ran into another glitch with GhostRider that I will soon remedy. I broke the lift cable. Granted, I’m lifting a very heavy 12” Brinly plow…many times snagging it from heavy soil while in motion. The electric lift is working great so far but it is powerful and I’m sure adds to the pressure on the cable. I need to decide at this point if I’m going “travel with a back-up cable” or if I’m going to come up with a stronger solution. I’m not 100% sure which route I’m going to take but I’ll post it here once I’ve got it figured out… This young man got to plow for the first time on GhostRider and he seemed to enjoy it! Zach took multiple rounds!

As usual lots of PO cobblements.. oh well ... comes with the turf I guess. Rites of passage removing them Richard?!?! @953 nut Me thinks the carb has seen better days anyway!

Trina wanted me to put these on...

Here’s few of my favorites

He hasn’t found one yet but good old dads got a few for him to drive. 😂

Boo!

Got the front sided today amongst other things....

Believe this is section 18 Tighten the trunion #14 clockwise to shorten the pto link. The handle should snap down with some authority when applied. Try 2 turns.

All better!

You'll lose most of your instrumentation (unless you change some guages and wiring), but I'm a believer in Vanguards. I have four of them, and they are good engines. We'll never get K-series or Onans again, so comparisons are hit and miss at best. Vanguards are a solid replacement. They have thier own issues like any engine, but they are solid.

Sounds like Dan needs to patent his pee as a fuel tank "preservative" ...maybe I should try it on a couple old gas tanks in the shop. Will definitely make for some conversation parts.

Roll Pins and brown welds are a rite of passage, that is a cutting edge get out the grinder (pun intended) and hope for the best!

. Shhh.... Definitely. Not sure if I've mentioned it back in this thread or not. It doesn't pass building code so Trina and I may or may not possibly soon or never make one AFTER the crew leaves and the Code Enforcement Officer signs off. Maybe. IIFF we do make a hole it would be for long things (boards etc) that don't fit up the stairs. Nothing upstairs will be so heavy we can't carry it up the stairs.

Your regulator is grounded thru the mounting bolt, make sure that it makes a good electrical connection there.

For a little more, id buy something like this instead:

Have you considered outing a Kohler twin or single in it. A K341 will power a 48” deck or plow no problem

A little birdie put the idea into the Dino's head but I ain't sayin who!

This is my first tractor that my dad surprised me with when I was 6 or 7 and I was so excited.My dad got it in New York the state.when we tried to start it it had a knocking inside the engine so we opened the engine and it turned out that someone didn’t tighten the bolts holding the connecting rod to the crank shaft.we realized that it was smoking and even shooting out a little bit of fire.Now I fix up push mowers and stuff like that and sell them for money I’m saving up for a rebuild kit because we never fixed the smoke.I’ve also plowed snow with it a few times and it’s original paint and it needs a seat.

Interesting idea to try pinning the bucket to the ground--keeps the force through the subframe.

Just for reference, I posted this pic in another thread, but it shows the relief cut on the balance and crank gears, I recall seeing this same type of cut on the cam gear. I also recall having the same sort of clearance between the cam gear and the crank gear. In this pic the arrow is pointing to what I believe is the source of the earth shattering kaboom when the bearings on the balance gears get worn. The balance gear can slide over just enough to contact the crank gear at that point. When that happens, game over.

With helical cut gears if there's end play in the cam, the cam will slide sideways when you move the gear up / down. I think I recall seeing a 'relief' cut on the edge of that cam gear last I had mine apart.

I replace the P220 on our 1992 520H back in 2013 with a Honda GX630 from Repower Specialists in Eugene, OR. The engine and kit was about 2K back then. It has been great and reliable. Got tired of valve seats coming loose, Yes, I really like the Onan, but the Honda is great.