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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!

Figured I would start a thread for 2023 calendar pictures. Really love these two from our meet and greet a few weeks ago! All- In order for the powers to be to filter through all photos please post only a few per member and also please keep comments to a minimum. Thanks!

Just because you asked…

Well, the KBS is @ 28.00 a quart and Red Kote is @ 50.00. That would be an expensive repair for a carb bowl unless you know somebody that already has some. Have you tried finding another bowl? I have an old K181 that still has a carb on it and the bowl is probably good on it if it would fit your carb.

You are on it and I'm sure it'll work out nicely

The short answer is yes. Here is a list of applications for the 106268. It is a normally open two wire two position switch, the 112418 and 114240 switches (listed below) are both normally open three wire two position switches. The third wire is for an indicator light so if you use the 106268 switch you will not have the indicator light. The white wire from the seat switch feeds the indicator light and would be abandon if the two wire switch is used. The orange and yellow wires are for the seat safety switch. 106268 Push-button switch for pto or seat used on 1978 models 81-18K801, 81-10K801, 81-12K801, 81-12KS01, 81-14K801, 81-14KS01, 81-16B801, 81-16BS01, 81-16K801, 81-16KS01, 81-16OS01, 81-20KS01, 82-08BP01, 82-11BP01 1979 models 91-08K801, 91-08K802*, 91-10K801, 91-10K802*, 91-11B801*, 91-11BS01*, 91-12K801, 91-12K802*, 91-12KS01*, 91-14K801, 91-14K802*, 91-14KS01*, 91-16B801, 91-16B802*, 91-16BS01, 91-16BS02*, 91-16K801*, 91-16KS01*, 91-16OS01, 91-20KS01, 91-20KS02, 92-08BF01, 92-11BF01, 92-11BP01 1980 models 01-08K801, 01-10K801, 01-11B803, 01-12K801, 01-12KE01, 01-12KS01, 01-14K801, 01-14KE01, 01-14KS01, 01-16K801, 01-16KE01, 01-16KS01, 01-16OS01, 01-17K801, 01-17KE01, 01-17KS02, 01-20KS00, 02-08BP01, 02-11BP02, 02-11BX01, 02-16BP01 1981 models 01-08K802, 01-10K802, 01-12K802, 01-12KE02, 01-14K802, 01-14KE02, 01-16K802, 01-16KE02, 01-17K802, 01-17KE01, 01-20KS00, 02-08BP02, 02-08BP03, 02-11BP03, 02-11BP04, 02-11BX02, 02-11BX03, 02-16BP02, 02-16BP03 1982 models 01-08K803*, 01-10K803*, 01 -11BH01, 01-12K803*, 01-14KE03*, 01-16KH01* for seat switch, 01-17K803*, 01-17KE02*, 01-19KE01* 1983 models 01-14KE04*, 01-17KE03*, 11-08K801*, 11-10K801*, 11-12K801*, 11-17K801* 1984 models 01-19KE02, 11-10K802, 11-12K802, 11-14KE01, 11-16K801, 11-17KE01 1985 models 21-10K801, 21-12K801, 21-14K801, 21-14KE01, 31-16K801, 31-17K801, 31-17KE01 1986 models 21-08K801, 21-08K802, 21-10K802, 21-10K803, 21-12K802, 21-12K803, 21-12KE01, 21-12KE2, 31-14K801, 31-16K802, 31-17K802, 31-17KE02, 31-20KE01 Here is a list of models that use the 112418/112440 seat switch. 112418 push-button seat switch used on 1987 models 21-08K803, 21-10K804, 21-12K804, 21-12KE03, 31-14K802, 31-16K803, 31-18K801, 31-18KE01, 32-08B501, 32-11B301, 32-11B401, 32-11B501, 32-11BX01, 32-12K601, 41-18KE01 112440 push-button seat switch used on 1988 models 21-08K804, 21-10K805, 21-12K805, 22-13KE01, 22-17KE01, 31-14K803, 31-16K804, 31-16OE01, 31-18OE01, 31-20OE01, 32-08B402, 32-11B402, 32-11BX02, 32-12K602, B1-16O801, C1-20OE01, E1-12K801, E1-18OE01, E2-09K401, E2-12K501, E2-13K501, E2-17K501, F2-09K401, F2-12K501, Z1-24OE01 1989 models 21-10K806, 21-12K806, 22-13KE02, 22-17KE02, 31-14K804, 31-16O801, 31-18OE02, 31-20OE02, 32-11B403, 32-12B501, 32-12BE01, 42-08B401, 42-11B501, B1-16O802, C1-20OE02, E1-12K802, E1-18OE02, E2-12K502, E2-12KE01, E2-17K502, R2-12K501, R2-12KE01, S2-12K501, Z1-24OE02 1990 models 31-10K801, 31-12K801, 31-12KE01, 31-16O802, 32-10B501, 32-10BE01, 32-12O501, 32-12OE01, 32-16BE01, 41-16OE01, 41-20O801, 41-20OE01, R1-12K801, R1-12K802, R1-16O801, R1-16O802, R1-18OE01, R1-18OE02, R2-17K501, R2-17K502 1991 models 31-10K802, 31-12K802, 31-16O803, 32-12O5A1, 32-12OEA1, 32-12B5A2, 32-12B5A3, 32-12BEA2, 32-12BEA3, 41-20OE02, 51-12KE01, 51-16OE01, A2-12K501, A2-12KE02

Couple more fun ones from the year.