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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

Well @Teddy da Bear62 glad you got things rolling again. With the holiday and then everything getting flooded here in NC, I've been having to work pretty much around the clock so this has pretty much been sitting and waiting on me. I soaked it with penentrant for over a month now and tonight I put a pipe extension on the pipe wrench and just decided that it was time to move it along. It ain't pretty but it's out and now I can get moving on the reassembly. I don't think that thing had been turned in years.

IMG_1759.mov After a few setbacks since the Saturday post, My father and I got it to run and drive last night. It ran like a top with no issues.

Welcome! WH made a change to the shift fork shafts to help with the cold weather problem of being stuck in two gears at once dur to "sticktion" of the gear oil in the shaft bores. They added a flat along its length to allow air & oil to escape ( and used the shorter pin as Garry mentioned). If it is still apart, consider it......

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.

Thanks guys you helped me a lot much appreciated I am restoring a 1964 Wheelhorse 1054 3 speed trans and this forum is great Thanks again

The 633 has reached its new home! New owner was wondering if there was a part or 2 missing? It has K141 Kohler with tillotson downdraft carb. Instructions for changing oil include how much oil to add for air filter? Don't think there is a container for oil, for air filter. Can someone show me a clear photo of the end of a 633 w/tillotson carb??

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

IMG_1759.mov After two months of work, I with the assistance of my Father got the Frankenstein C-141 running and moving tonight. Now to put the hood, drive belt side cover, and modify the shift plate to allow for reverse. Then its off to paint and getting the lights to work.

Buy an existing and operating business. Consider owning your own shop and now you make all of the decisions. Startups take a lot more time to get going with nothing coming in and hemorrhaging money out. But purchasing the right existing business means the phone is ringing on day one. It doesn't happen overnight so poke around for something and expect maybe 6 months to 18 months to close the deal. You can find plenty of information, help and guidance through the local Chamber of Commerce, the SBA and through an organization known as SCORE https://www.score.org/ Some people look at owning a business as "risky" but I believe leaving all of the decisions which affect your life is much more risky. Yes it's hard work and long hours but at least you are working for your dream and not for someone else's dream. There are many business brokers out there and people retiring selling their businesses directly. It's not rocket surgery operating a small business but it's always good to know what you're getting into before you start. Even a "government job" isn't safe anymore. Just read the news!

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

Dropped the transmission out of the 314-8 that I picked up at the show stuck in low range. I suppose there are a lot of different ways to drop a transmission. This is one way I do it. I put jack stands under the foot rest rods. Place the dolly under the center of the trans with a block. Jack up the front untill the trans rests on the block. I removed the high low pin and unbolt the trans from the frame. Low the jack a little so there is room to remove the high low shiftier. Of course I am splitting this one and have removed the hubs, brake drum and drive pulley. If anyone has a high low fork they are willing to part with let me know. tks.

Here’s a video of the show. I still have more footage too, and will likely create a longer video as well. There are licenses needed to be able to rightfully post drone videos, and I need to make one with and one without the full drone footage, in case one gets taken down.

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:

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

Finally got the extended seat pan painted for the winter xi project. I don't like shooting metal below 70 and to cheap to turn on heat. lol

Just in case anybody wanted to know. This damn thing is heavy. Approximately 115 lb. Perfect front counterweight for a heavy towing tractor.

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.