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Picked this up today for $300!!! 1989 Town Car w/69k miles. Been in garage almost 30yrs, never driven in winter. Needs minor maint, fluids, tires, & fuel pump. All original rust free paint will buff out & shine when I get done with it. Couldn't believe how rust free underside is too. Interior needs a light cleaning. Old school luxury......I like it

I cleaned, lubricated and sharpened/balanced the blades on the 36” RD deck that’s on the 308-8 I bought from @Docwheelhorse Ill do an oil soak and dry once we see the sun again MA. I recently installed the ceiling, mounted electric winch on a trolley system in my garage and that thing has come in handy a few times so far. And like I do with most everything, I just had to weigh the deck

World Kebab Day is celebrated on the second Friday of July (July 11 this year) as an occasion to commemorate the kebab and its multiple varieties. Kebabs are hugely popular because of their meaty texture and an amazing array of spices and aromas. There are known to be more than 20 types of kebabs that are prepared differently in each region or family. That is quite a lot of variety to experience for just one day.

Years ago when I had my Lund Pro Sport I was talking to my friends wife and she mentioned they were interested in buying a tampoon boat someday. Must of been the alcohol. They did buy one.

Block painted. Not perfect but looks better than it did. Yeah that's a cheapo carb on it. The original is badly corroded and is gonna take a lot of work. It'll get rebuilt soon. Spark plug is just a dust cap. Not even threaded...

OK it went from a tractor show to a family reunion...

Preparing for my brother's medieval-themed birthday party in Devon (England)

These are from a 3 speed transmission. The 2 shifter bearings are 1/4". Mine measure 0.247 The bearing usually can be hound at you hardware store (ace, etc) in all the those grey or brown drawers. The spring diameter is 0.245, length is 1.142, Spring wire dia. 0.040. The spring has 15 coils.

Deck maintenance day (well, need more than one day, not finished yet). Two 48" SD's cleaned up, lubed, and blades sharpened. Third one just came off, will get to that one this weekend. Been a lot of mowing going on here lately, and the last time, I got caught in the rain and hence had a lot of wet grass clumped up in the deck. Got the pressure washer out and gave it a good bath. Not sure the other 2 will get a bath this time around but at least scraped the dried grass out from underneath and sprayed on some rust deterrent. Don't know if anyone else uses these little 3-wheel dollies from HF but they sure make sliding the decks in and out a lot easier. Still need to check all the fluids in the tractors and maybe give some of them a bath also this weekend.

Need I say anything?!?!? Just glad it's off my trailer ... room for a real ...

I've just become aware of the Kohler L181 liquid cooled variant. It got the gears turning. What is your positive input?

A cut down nail works for the pin. File the ends smooth.

They haven’t moved much. Definitely waiting. Hope to have them covered soon. Of course Skittles is enjoying her spot.

Started this project about 5 years ago during that time was looking for parts for it findly was able to get the rest of the parts I need at the wheel horse show it was in bad shape like my 704 was

Sometimes you gotta throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks.

Pull the head. Sounds like a bad valve

Also works as an accelerator pump weight on a Chrysler Slant 6 1 barrel carb!

It's a better solution than what I screwed up in my shop. When I built it, I thought I was being slick and installed 2 full size ceiling fans that are always powered and have long pull strings to turn them on. All that was fine and works great, but where I screwed up was my LED lighting. I installed surface mounted LED shop lights to the ceiling, all daisy chained together and running off power from the light switch at the door. By themselves, they also work great, in fact exceeded my expectations great. What I didn't think about, was having the LEDs ABOVE the fans......big mistake. It works, but can be very disorienting depending on what you are doing. Sometimes it doesn't seem to bother me, other times I feel about half nauseous. I feel like i need to hang one of those seizure warnings on the front door of the shop some days. It gives off a strobe like effect. So most days, the ceiling fans stay off and I turn on the old trust box fan

I do not know the length of the pin but this was previously posted It has be reported that the up to 1965 original stop pin part # 3573 is .695" long (11/16" = .6875") 1965-on revised stop pin # 5614 is .740" long (47/64" = .7344") .740" - .695" = .045" or approximately 3/64" longer

I think I see what you mean... the gunk is pretty uniform all the way down the outside of the tube. I guess the blue goo caught my eye. I can clean it up, change the oil and run it, and see where it's coming from.

Yep, I read about that, thanks! Going to have a look at it when I change this tire.

Momma and the fawn cruising the back lawn just now

Absolutely justifiably agreed.

I planted March 10th to 20th. We plant Onions Early January and harvest late May. cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, kale, are fall cool weather crops

5F6E9877-466D-4EBE-850C-379B10EE66D8.mov I along with my fathers assistance got the 1978 C-141 Frankenstein running and moving after 2 months of steady work and an education in Wheel Horse electronics.

Treated myself to a Milwaukee M18 trim router today. Needed a router to break edges in the Murphy bed i'm building. Had the bits here in Mi. but my router is in Mo. It is a neat little machine. Capable, accurate depth adjustment. The Murphy bed project is in the painting stage now. Hopefully, it will go into final assembly tomorrow.

Happy 4th of July

Sometimes when I make a vehicle or motorcycle or other big-project purchase... I start a thread in a related forum to track what I do with it. I've currently got active threads for two vehicles and one motorcycle in three different forums, and I was pleased to find this forum a few weeks ago when I started shopping for a WH. This forum is an incredible resource, and it's clear there's a wealth of knowledge and experience in the member base here... A couple of years ago, I picked up a 518xi with 2-stage snow thrower and 48" deck for my father. He loves the think, and it's a tank. He only uses it for winter duty, and he offered up his deck if I were able to find a tractor for it. So, after a few weeks of poking around FB Marketplace, I picked up a 1998 520Lxi with 588 hours. It came with a 4' plow, 48" mower deck, wheel weights and chains, a belt-driven blower and bagger, and a milk crate full of random parts. The seller reported an issue with the battery not charging, and he replaced the regulator to no improvement. I'm thinking the problem probably lies with the stator, but I'll get to that later. The day I unloaded it at home, I removed the bagger and blower and mowed about 80% of my overgrown lawn before the PTO engagement started acting up (a clue that the battery might be getting low on power), and the next time I shut down the mower, it wouldn't restart. I left it on a charger for a few hours and finished up the lawn. One problem I was seeing was that the water temperature light was coming on solid for maybe 30-60 seconds, and then going back out. The temperature gauge looks good. I plan to flush the coolant and change the oil soon anyway, so I didn't worry too much about it. In the back of my mind, though, are the plastic gears in the water and oil pumps that apparently plagued this model/year. I did take my leaf blower to the engine bay and cleared out a bunch of clippings, but that didn't resolve the light coming on. Yesterday, I decided I'd take a look a the air filter, and... oh, my. A desiccated mouse and his kingdom of debris were packed tightly around more than half of the airbox. Maybe that explains my temperature issues (real or otherwise)? I've got a paper filter on the way. I did not order an outer foam filter, and I wonder if it's necessary to have one. I'm going to be able to keep the mice away from the tractor from now on out, at least. I haven't started the tractor yet since cleaning out the box, but I don't expect it to run worse...! I put the plow, deck, blower, and bagger in the Classifieds and on FB Marketplace. A guy about 2 hours north of here said he'd take the lot. I'll be driving that way in a few weeks anyway, so I plan to deliver it to him. I've got a lot going on this summer, so I'm hoping to find time here and there to change fluids in the WH and find a snow thrower so I can use it this winter.

If it does end up being a valve cover gasket... I think I can understand the use of RTV or whatever to make a replacement. I can't find 95-9708 anywhere.

Finally got the correctly sized flywheel (had to re-glue one of the magnets) and got my 3rd horse up and running with working rototiller, finally. Just gave it a tryout in the garden and she works wonderfully! (photo taken after I parked it)

Xi’s are so big and tough! and great work digging into the issues that are present! I’d suggest inspecting your front axle pivot. It’s a poor design and destined for failure. https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/topic/92609-xi-series-front-axle-pivot-repair/

I haven't seen this mentioned yet so I'm gonna throw out some unsolicited advice. As someone who has always worked a physical job I wish I'd taken better care of my physical health. The human form was evolutionarily developed between 300,000 and 100,000 years ago. Our physical nature has not been made to reach overhead for long periods. GET PHYSICAL THERAPY. Now. Today. Make the appointment. Start the process and KEEP doing it. If you're already in PT then STAY the course. Success physical therapy takes 6 to 10 weeks of actual work done correctly to create the hypertrophy needed for healing. That's the STARTING point. The time for this broken health care system to normalize preemptive care is long long overdue and it'll likely never happen. Take it upon yourself. Stretching statistically does not work for several reasons. PT movement however is far more effective in daily activities. Improvement in overall health will take time. Think of it as rust and corrosion. It took us years to get where we are. It'll take years to get back. And that's OK. No matter what the job future holds for you - movement and proper physical health will be paramount as you age.

Tools are investments, not frivolous expenditures. That’s what I tell myself and wifey, anyway.

After some electrical education and troubleshooting, it was ready for a test fire. During the test fire the engine smoked a bit through the shroud. After a thorough investigation, must have been trash on the stator. Nothing else had burnt. In the interim, I painted the shroud IH Red, and painted the exhaust BBQ black. reassembling the sheetmetal on the engine after the paint dried. I also started attaching the body panels and buttoning things up.

I plow with a winch controlled lift. Easily fine tune height of blade, but as noted above it will not follow contour of ground. If dead flat it works great... I back blade when I want to scrape my gravel area...

I do the same. I have threads for members of our Herd going back several years. I keep a note file with the "shortcut" to each. Again.... You've added yourself and your future information to that very base by keeping this thread. Invite him to the site!

Hasn't he started on his "MASTERS" degree ? Definitely earned enough credits.

@Pullstart Have you met my wife? You two would get along well. She never wears activity-appropriate foot-wear either.

Mine was originally equipped with a 7 HP Briggs. Some creativity and it works great.

This isn't a "what I did with my wheel horse today" post (although I did some trail mowing with my GT-1848 after it cooled down a bit...) Yesterday my wife and I went to our local county fair - lucky for us the fairgrounds is only 4-5 miles away. They were having their tractor pull and we hadn't been there in quite a few years. Turns out the sled for the big tractor pullers didn't make it there in time, so it was only garden tractors. I didn't get pictures of all of them, but I particularly liked this one (it took third in it's class) - "Wicked Horse": It had a V-Twin in it but can't tell what brand or size. They had a lot of mostly big, some small, tractors on display inside a pole barn. Here are a few pics: Thought this ice cream maker was pretty cool:

Fishing for stripers on the Susky River with another 80+ yo friend this morning. Md has a 19-24 inch slot and a 1/day limit. We had to fish hard to get two that were under the 24" limit. Too big throw back. A 22 and 23"er we were able to keep.

Yanked the 36”RD and gave it a scraping and a bath. Pleased to see it still has red paint underneath!

Several years ago I went to pick up a counterweight for one of Trina's tractors. I wanted to add 40 or 80 lb or whatever to the front of it. We ended up doing a 45 lb belly weight on angle iron brackets. The belly weight was originally on a Kubota tractor. We got to shooting the breeze as folks do and the guy said, what about this one? The skinniest cylinder is about 3.25x12 long. The other skinny one is about 3.5 wide by 11.75 long. The short fat one is about 6.25 wide by 5.75 tall. All steel. Just some scrap steel that some person in the past had welded together. At some point I should probably throw a more ambitious bead of weld on each side.

Finally mowed with the 520-8 today. She did well!

Although I did mask off the decals …

Not much... marketing mostly. Like they said, some of them had the smaller axles and lighter diffs. Other differences were the lights/gauges etc. But 90% is marketing. If you throw a 16hp in and you have the 1 1/8" axles then you have made a 416-8 for the most part. The 416 in later years had a twin Onan instead of a single Kohler. Frame, sheet metal and all other mechanical parts are exactly the same. The differentiation between series' were never very clear and changed from year to year.