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He’s learning Uncle Jim, Teckys are as reliable as Fords

7 Tecky...First mistake... Second ... wrenching with the Pullhosen...

Did you threaten to use it for an anchor?

Sorry Dan, Here's your sign.

Any motor can get water in it. Draining old oil on a motor new to you is probably one of the first steps if you are replacing an engine on your tractor.

I even sprayed some lubricant on the shifter bushings last night to help keep it shifting like it should. Catch that Greasy @peter lena Pete???

Already started Ed!

Some of you know or met my son James. He was having trouble passing a kidney stone while we were at the big show. Sunday evening he started feeling bad and running a fever. Monday and Tuesday he was not improving so when he seemed to be getting worse on Wednesday his wife drug him to the hospital. He had evidently passed an infected Kidney stone that caused a septic condition. After all the tests were done he had kidney infection, sepsis, pneumonia, and e coli. His white blood count was up to 36000, oxygen level in the 80s without oxygen. He was on iv and oxygen for three days. He finally got out of the hospital yesterday but will be on antibiotics for a minimum of twe weeks.

May be time to invest in a parts storage system.

Good rainy day project while I look at my fishing boat sitting in the rain . My 36RD needed some attention. New idler pulley from K and B Wheel Horse Parts @76c12091520h as well as a good overall greasing. Just an FYI…I sent K and B a PM a month before the show with a list of parts I wanted. Wanted new and not used. I got back an email saying all were available and the pricing. Said great, I’ll pick it all up at the show. When I show up at the K and B vender spot at the WHS there were all my parts in a bag ready to go! Great service! Highly recommend Ken and Brian!

Not gonna lie, there was a fair amount of sulking yesterday but I'm over it now. Nothing a little time & money won't fix. Gotta figure out if it's the stator, pick up or power box. I'll make the ole 45hp Mariner live again.

hi all, we took our great grandson last fall to Battleship Cove in fall river mass. there they have the USS Massachusetts. actual WW2 battleship (BB-59). they also have a destroyer, sub and a pt boat you can tour. when i was a kid just the battleship. he loved it. as a side note i applaud you navy guys who served on a destroyer. my impression was that thing is soooo small. how far out are we going in that little thing! yesterday we went to the Bradley air museum in windsor locks connecticut. lots of military and civilian aircraft to tour. the tour guide took a liking to the great grandson and let him sit in a bunch of the cockpits. he loved that! i highly recommend both of these places if you and your families are in the area. GOD BLESS AMERICA! regards mike

Look what followed us home today! It will soon be my future mud mower

That was one option it was given.

Is that one of those rare factory color matching, Plymouth Scamp wheel weights laying beside the passenger door?

Another thread the Dino got his name wrong. He said he didn’t mind… Bill or George or anything but Sue. Well… I had to

Well, electric is the trend right now. Maybe a tesla trolling motor is the thing to have.

1pin= 1200 rpm 2pin=2400rpm 3pin=wot You could use a clothespin container like the one in Mrs Ks laundry room. Tie the Old Bag to the back of your seat.

Happy Birthday Brandon!! #brandon701 was the one at the show that had the Wheel Horse wedding.

In Rehoboth DE.

Just wear a blue and yellow shirt and tell them you're a supporter when they bring the bill Not sure a russian restaurant is a popular place right now.

Hahaha, well, I calculated at 3.80 per gallon at 16mpg for 1220 mile round trip, it would be about 300 bucks. As tempting as some Mennonite rhubarb and shoo fly pie might be... I'll just zip apart the trans and see what I find. I'm just tried of tripping over it in my shed. Worst comes to worst, I'll have some nice hubs and I'll throw the gears on ebay. Here is my daughter trying a bite of the shoo fly pie you brought me!

Patiently waiting on the wheelhorseparts delivery for the pulley bracket for the tiller so I can sow in some pumpkin and late corn!!

Quicker yes. But the aftermarket carburetor’s aren’t always good to go out of the box. Quite a few guys here have had to adjust and work on them right away. Personally I would prefer to have my original rebuilt. It’s also a great way to learn about the Kohler carbs.

Glad to hear James is OK. Really enjoy talking with you guys at the show. The young'ns really seemed to enjoy themselves there too. As far as listening to the wife, OK for this type of stuff. Anything about not buying tractors and stuff like that, NO WAY!

Right on, my wheel horse brother LOL My 1965 Ford F100 has a smooth working three on the tree, and I love it !!! I even sprayed some lubricant on the shifter bushings last night to help keep it shifting like it should. Who else here has a running/driving car or truck with a three on the tree?

I've had many kidney stones over the years, one this past winter, they suck. Two years ago while tedding hay in a very uneven field I started getting terrible kidney pain. I tried working through it because the friends I do hay with count on me doing the tractor work while they are at work. I have MS and can't do manual labour. I finally called my wife to come get me, she had to drive into the field to get me I got so I couldn't even drive the tractor, luckily one of my friends got out early and is strong. Wouldn't been able to get in the car with out him. Infected kidney stone I had many UTI leading up to that day. I was in the hospital for ten days on antibiotics. I've been on antibiotic since then. Infectious disease doctor was called in that saved my life. Infected kidney stone is very dangerous and life threatening.

Never, ever, tease anyone who has had to deal with a kidney stone. I feel for him. Worse pain I ever experienced. Nurse in the hospital told me she has done both childbirth and a kidney stone. Said she would do childbirth again.

@Tractor.man.hank just thought I would add some contraversy , never think that any used engine has had a good life . something that I regularly do , is a seperate gallon of heavely treated gas, drop fuel bowl , clean out the crud , verify oil statis , top up , start up engine and let it run , easily , advancing to a fast idle , intent is a hot engine oil flush . drop oil , like rotella 30 wt ,and rislone zddp zinc additive . add 4 oz of this with a measuring cup , 2 oz per qt of oil . start up and run in again , hot engine , running / sounding better , carb adjustments , just let it run at a fast idle , make adjustments , how does oil look ? you are doing a flush and establishing a baseline service . done this now on a number of engines , no engine smoke , sounds good , runs easily . also wright this down for the next owner , to hopefully keep this going . my 3 kohlers , run on this set up . it works . pete

So sorry , those kidney stones can be rough enough without infection. Thanks to Mrs. P for getting James the help he needed. Glad he's on the road to recovery.

Sorry Dan it's not really funny when you're in that situation, but ........

Glad to hear that it sounds like the worst has passed. Praying for a full recovery.

Ross are typically splined shaft ends for the steering wheel. I too was thinking of using a Ross to offset the steering wheel to the side for 2 seats and dependability. Bought one a while back but never used it yet. I also have a big steering box from a large tractor but I guess it would depend upon how the build progresses as to which would be used. Big and beefy or slim and fast. Maybe a dropped hot rod looking truck and fast since I don't need it to necessarily work hard. The loader hoe is gone. Went out yesterday just to look for and maybe get some stuff together for a truck build but I was easily sidetracked again and worked on the new bike front suspension. Got the over camber out of it and toed out the wheels a little. Drives and steers much better than it did but still has some more tweaking to be done.

There. I fixed it for ya.

You callin him a boy named Sue Kev? ... Brake hub and hubs say later but if ' Fish put it together all bets are off.

Amen Plunger... evertime I hop in one and that touch screen says all this bull crap about keeping eyes on the road... well then why the heck give me those distractions?!?! How about a three on the tree instead?!?! Excuse me for showing my age...

And doing better than my 401K ................. But that's a soapbox I won't get on tonight

Keep your ground lead on a clean spot as close to your weld that you conveniently can. In other words shortest path for current to pas to the ground lead.

or. you paid for a pair of hubcaps and got everything else free.

I'm no financial genius but I'd say your investment is doing ok.

I had put a smaller transmission pulley on the 1467 Special for the show cruise. Of course as it always happens the throttle decided to stop locking as I drove it off the trailer. I knew it would be a PITA in the cruise to hold the throttle open. And a clothes pin vice grip idea was out because it would be too fast for conditions (traffic/kids). Bought a new cable at the show but I really didn't want to spend time there working instead of visiting/ buying. So today I removed the cable and took it apart and recrimped the ferrule thingy and got it locking again.I'll save the new cable for another time when it's needed.

Excellent! Kinda forgot you had that Ford truck. Is it any closer to being usable?

Oh, no!!! Time to call the YT Po-Po. Open chain drive with no guard - child endangerment !!!!!!!!

If it has 1 1/8" axles and is a Limited Slip, it is a 5073. Raider trans with dipstick. Brake drum on cluster gear shaft. If it has 1" axles, it is a 4 pinion #5086...Raider. An 8 pinion 8 speed has 1 1/8" axles. A 4 pinion 8 speed has 1" axles. Brake drum on cluster gear shaft.

Wow, I’d have never known of his troubles at the show.. Sounds like rough stuff going on and he kept on trucking!

I finally had some time to mess around with this again. It stopped raining for a while so I pushed the tractor outside and started it. It seemed to be fine for a minute, then started surging. It was better at about 1/2 choke, which makes more sense if there is an air leak somewhere. I tried spraying some carb cleaner around the intake seam, but only noticed a minor change here and there. But, no matter. I have some great news - the previous owner forgot to tell me (or I didn't catch what he was saying) when I picked up the tractor, that he had some "other parts" for the tractor. I actually did a computer repair for him as partial barter, and when I took the computer back fixed, he gave me two boxes. One is a brand new carb, and the other is a full set of gaskets and a tune-up kit. Since I already now have a new carb, I took the intake and carb off, and this is what I saw: Sure looked bad. So I went ahead and split it, and yep, it was bad. I have it mostly cleaned up - need to hit with some acetone first. I have some blue gasket maker but it's old, and I need to run out for some other things this morning (unimportant stuff, like food) so I'm going to buy a new tube of that to use on here. I didn't notice the manufacturer of the carb but most likely it's cheap Chinese, but we'll see how it goes. I have moderately high hopes that this will be the end of the surging problem.

And if you are MIG welding……don’t forget to turn the gas bottle on. Lest you spend the next 45+ mins fiddling with settings, scratching your head, and grinding off crappy welds before the lightbulb comes on. At least that’s how I spent my Friday afternoon….LOL.

Me n The BBT went a couple mountains over to Mt Cutler today. The trail starts right near the old East Hiram ME Railroad Station area. It hasn't been used for decades but is still in possession of the RR company. Many moons ago Hiram was a large enough station to warrant a track siding for switching RR cars around. This hole in the forest floor is one of several water cisterns used for storage for the steam trains. The station was also a stopping and refilling point. These water storage wells are part of a stream that runs year round. The bridge across the Saco River is visible in the distance. A few more pics...

In other words, you got wheel weights for $100 and the attached tractor for free...