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What a great picture Kevin and what a great tribute thread to an Old Horse going to a New Home. Yes, it was a real tuff decisioon to have to let it go. When my Sister passed away in March, her daughter had to sell the house there. I needed to find new storage for 2 of my 5 horses and also for my 16 foot boat. Keeping the boat meant losing some horses and accessories. RacinBob and Pullstart were nice enough to help me out. I'm OK...I still have my Dad's 857, my 876 hydro and the 2010 B-100 Raffle Tractor, mower decks for the Short Frame Square Hoods and Sno-blades for all 3 horses. My collection is now manageable and turning 75 years old this year is a good place to be.

@stevasaurus here you go!

Just put a new camera on my four wheeler $40 on amazon for the complete kit. Now I can see who's behind me https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CCD3FFMF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

Finally, 64F and low humidity this AM. Time to clean up some blow downs and lay in some firewood.

Now that is a great picture. Getting a little gray there Steve.

Final mowing with this tractor before it gets dismantled. Removed the 36RD for a scraping and cleaning underneath.

Baby has new shoes. Now that the bearing fiasco is out of the way. Next up to see if the ol KT17 has any life left in her. The day I brought her home. Where I’m currently at.

That's alright Mike. I'm ALL white AND losing my fuzz. Ain't a single bald person anywhere on my mother's side and that's supposedly what runs the genes.. Guess I'm the new anomaly.

Everyone knows that Eric’s coffee is 90w

Smart. Always good to wash out all the sludge in these old splash lube engines. Good for the valves too.

DONT LET OUT THE SECRET RECIPE !!!!!

A few months ago I was casting about for a better way to wire brush clean various parts, mostly carbs. These are very narrow. 1/8" wide. The handle is sized right. One could hold the top as a handle if need be. I find these work excellent for the skinny areas between the casting edges on the carbs I've been working on. This shows it on an 8 1/2 x 11 paper for scale. McMaster Carr part number (last row)

Decided to make the tire changer convertible.

Hey now, that’s wisdom! I am starting to find some too…

Hooked up and ready to pull out. My wife doesn't like to pull a trailer so all the driving will be on me. Leaving this afternoon and will see how far I can make it.

He's got more hair than me and I'm his "little brother!"

Hy Steve I still like that 64. Cool ride. Your dad did good work on that tractor. I am sure it was hard to let that one go!

Got a little time today to poke around on the B-110 and get some pictures: Upon closer inspection, the hood shows some signs of being repainted. I pulled the spark plug just to see what it looks like - heavily carboned. First thing I noticed when I looked at the spark plug hole in the head was that it looks like it has been repaired. Does that look like a hellicoil to anybody else?: Also an interesting repair to the steering column somewhere along the way: I just noticed that empty hole in the dash. Wonder what the story is about that? Anyhow, it goes into all of the gears, the brakes seem to work, the steering does not have excessive play, and the lift lever is suprizingly easy to lift that beefy dozer blade with, and the PTO clutch lever moves as it should. The hood bolts on, while the 'power bulge' on top of the hood hinges to the right for access to the gas tank and battery. Oh, yah - the battery is dead, really dead. I don't think I'm even going to try to revive it. The engine turns over by hand with the starter generator belt. A little too easily, I think. Anybody know if these old 10hp B&S engines had compression release? While I had the spark plug out, I put my thumb on the spark plug hole and turned the engine over by hand - didn't feel any indication of compression. The oil is full and relatively clean. I'll get the jumper cables out in the near future to jump the starter and give it a chuff of carb cleaner to see if it has fire. Also a good subject to try out my new compression gage on. Not sure what I want to do with this tractor. I like the 'survivor' vibe that it has, so a full restoration is not in its future. Since it does not have a mower deck, I am thinking this would be a good one to add weight and fill the tires and use for ground engaging duties. Any other suggestions out there? It is not as dirty as I expected. Still, I'll get the pressure washer out and give it a washing. I downloaded an Allis Chalmers B series garden tractor service manual pdf file last night. While looking through it, I stumbled across instructions on how to adjust the limited slip dif. Apparently the right rear hub has a nylon bushing between the hub and axle with another piece of nylon loaded radially with a bolt to provide friction to drive the wheel. Too much preload on the bolt results in a locked axle, not enough preload results in no power to the right rear wheel.

Glad that that works for you down there... Up here you cold have the body work done and in a couple years the salt /brine would create new issues. I know that as a kid in upstate NY the only place that used serious salt was downtown Albany on State St Hill. The state road in front of our house would have long periods of being covered with packed snow/ice. They dumped sand on it. (there was a bit of salt in the sand to keep it from freezing in to a solid lump). In the fall after snow tires were mounted drove over to the town garage and filled a few buckets and wash boiler with sand from the their pile. It rode around in the trunk all winter for weight and be available for traction if needed. We didn't drive 65 mph but some how we got to where we needed to go and nobody had 4wd or awd either. If things got really bad there were chains. Don't think my father ever missed work because of snow. Took alot of snow for a snow day at school. Mr. Mock ( my school bus driver for several years) knew how to put the chains on the bus. ..

Glad you told us it was oil, lookin at the can I figured it was some of @ebinmaine's campfire coffee.

Nice day out. Gettin the "fleet" ready for the Steam Pageant!

Day early.

If you are heading South....it is all down hill.

We have a winner. The bearing replacement for the Toro 107124 is Oregon 45-064. Now to find some 2” black dust caps.

At our house if you want to sit down in a comfortable chair you will have to move one of the cats first.

😂😂😂😂 i love that sentence Ed.. Do not allways knew where i hit me or scratch me because my sensation of pain is sometimes a bit less.

Same here. I thought "my" German Shepherd was mine. Nope! She's my wife's dog now...

You just gotta' admire a man who keeps meticulous maintenance records, even if it has been fifteen years. Love ya' @stevasaurus.

Nuttin exciting here…but now that I have this 14 Magnum dialed in and tested “good” it has earned an oil change with some quality oil (draining out cheap oil laced with some Marvel Mystery Oil)

i googled georgia sales tax rate and found out it is 4%. sooo... lets say a new truck sets you back 50K. tha'ts 2K just in tax to the state. if financing, now you most likely have to have full coverage insurance. more $$$! up here in the communist ( i mean commonwealth of massachusetts) sarcasm intended, we have what is called excise tax. this is a tax based on the value of a vehicle. a new 50K truck would be about $1000 in first year excise tax. after 5 years it would drop to about $125. a year, every year. then how can you spend 50K and throw stuff in the bed that scratches it. i think you were smart to rebuild you old truck. your truck looks good!

Hi, I'm new here since July 18, but not new to Wheel horse. My first one was a 418 1980, which was a good tractor for me. I still have the snow thrower from it and it works on my 1998 520h. I'd like to thank the person's that commented on my post about the stoppages I was having and the other posts that I read. Used my Toro leaf blower and got riid of a mouse nest I didn't my tractor had. It ran great. The great thing about most Wheel horse attachments, you didn't have to buy new ones when you got a new tractor. I used to have a plow, disc and cultivator, when I had a garden from the 418 and they worked with my 520h also. You don't see that much today. I'll take some time to see what peoples thoughts are on pre Toro and now.

Best way to travel there. Did you KNOW there's only half a tractor??!!?? Did you leave home with the rest??

First stop about 80 miles second stop about 160 miles. Total trip 205 miles. About 5 hrs taking back roads to avoid Atlanta traffic. Some cool stuff at the second stop.

Great... now there are no 8 speeds or C-160's east of the Mississippi...!!!

Headed north. It will be downhill going home.

Other than having one on the shelf, no. Fired it up and it runs is all I know. Mine came from a JD tractor and has the bolts on the flywheel side for the drive shaft. Maybe you should look up the engine by spec number to check if it has a bearing on the shaft side in order to handle the side load of driving belts.

Damn was this deck ready for a thorough cleaning!

Once more Success! Today early at 05:20 local time i flow my last rounds for fawn Saving and releasing the rest of Fields. While i fly, i wonder about with 2 Batteries. They let the Drone very early come back, much earlier than normal it should be. i was shure they went fully charged before i started. When i try to pull them out of the Drone they seems hooked internally, But - nothing is hooked, both batteries starts to inflate themself. Dang - That is absolutely worse sign on LiPo Batteries - but at least they last as needed for the last 4 Flights today, but now they must be urgently exchanged.To dangerous to fly again with them. They be now extreme Dangerous to become selfigniting. So another task is on the Desk - increase the Battery Lifespan - Na- Ion batteries should not have that issues but less capacity. probably they be the better solution. In the Brief description they should be extrem quick charging and quick draining capable without self inflating issue. Good thing is - All the fields arround are now mowed and again 0 Fawns was harmed. The Batteries didn’t last long - but independently of that I be so proud it worked that way. I hope the Na- Ion batteries will be very soon available.

..... pretty much how I am too.....

Biggest issue I see going forward is that the manufacturers are starting to cut back on spare parts or holding them so your vehicle of choice will become almost " unrepairable " Subaru is starting to do this. They have plenty of subframes in the warehouse but won't sell you one to replace your rotted out one. They want you to go buy a new car. A lot of other sedans are starting to fall into this category. And a lot of aftermarket parts like sensors and other electronics are pure junk. Luckily trucks are popular enough that needed items will be available for a while longer. We hope

Bentley pouting after being groomed. He only stays mad till he gets hungry.

I'm thinking of trying some copper gasket spray. I just want to get it through until it comes time to fix it up. It could very well be that the mating surface is warped. When I paint this one, I'll tear the engine down and get everything planed

It is not in your head. My K341 is super quiet with Rotella and Penn Grade 1 (Brad Penn) and is noticeably quieter in all my other air-cooled engines as well. Perhaps the film strength is higher in those oils.

The Local Tractor Repair Professional has been right on this one some of the afternoon. All back together. We'll test it out and check for leaks then bring it back home. Again..

Looking forward to seeing my young friend Jay.

" dog muffins!"

Since we had to load quickly on a State Hyway, I didn't get to tell Kevin about some of the changes on the 702. I don't know if those front wheels were done by my Dad, or he bought it like that. It is not factory...it is better then factory. It has regular boat hubs, the axles have a sleeve to fit the regular trailer type bearings. You don't have to mess with these Kevin, I greased those bearings back in 2009 and they have never been wet and used only on Sundays to mow my small, level yard and push some fall leaves. I did use it sometimes to push snow because of the HY-2. The parts (in order). Not showing the inner bearing. One other thing Kevin. You see that roll pin just left of the oil drain plug in the 1st picture ?? Keep an eye on it...it has a bad habit of working its way out. I just tap it back in about once a year. The knurled hood knobs have Helo Coils in there. Got those from Gene Simpson at a Mentone, Ind Show. He was making them back then.

Most times I don't even know I touched something. I find I'm bleeding when I come in from the shop and, Mrs. K. yells "STOP, you have a leak".

I have had this 2000 Silverado since October of 1999. I figure I can replace the engine, transmission, and rear end and a paint job for less than half the cost of a new one.

This one was a particularly dirty example and it cleaned up quite nicely. It's sat in lacquer thinner in the ultrasonic cleaner for 9 or 10 days. Soaking. Every day or two I would run the machine for a cycle or two morning and night or whatever. This afternoon I took it out and ran a can of brake clean all around it and through it and next to it and up down left right in out of it etc etc. That'll do.....