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Finished the headlight mod.

Get some steak sizzling over an open flame because August 18 is National Fajita Day. It’s a day to celebrate the authentic taste of the Southwest with the fiesta of flavor known as the fajita. Throw in some awesome black beans or even add a little hot sauce, guacamole, sour cream, or cheese. The combinations are endless. It’s National Fajita Day so you know what you’ve got to do (eat fajitas, obviously).

Chicken or steak ???? My answer is - YES please.

Hosed tractor off to get the big chunks removed. Removed fuel tank and fender support bracket, side covers and foot rests, drive belt, drive pulley and fan, All parts removed have been degreased and washed. Tractor degreased.

So yesterday I met up with @Pullstart to swap a couple tractors... I'm looking at another restoration, only this one runs, has good tires, and overall seems in pretty good shape. LED lights even work... In keeping with my budget (think Ramon noodles), I have already fixed the seat at no cost. Will be changing the oil in motor and trans, doing a thorough cleaning, replacing the shifter boot, and then seeing what direction I go from there... This one may just stay in its work clothes... Some pics:

started using a gun a few years back and yep it is so much better. I know you did not ask but here are a few tips. I was always shying away due to the clean up of the gun. I use brake cleaner now and with the straw and it cleans up in less than 5. especially when using disposable cups. I mix the hardener with the reducer first then add to the paint. I like about 1 to 5 mix @28psi. and use the thumb to pinky distance for the gun. of course using a piece of cardboard to get the pattern dialed in. I have found if I have a light in the background, it helps for how fast I move the gun. I look at the sheen in reflection of the light and speed up or slow down so it maintains a wet edge. I buy the single stage auto paint on eBay that has the reducer and hardener included. I have used this paint a few times and it works really well. Available in quarts too.

Are there any signs that someone has been in that transmission before you? I suspect those plastic bushing are not factory. Something a PO installed

Oops it’s been a while since I updated the thread… Since the last update I have Put the hood on, Tightened down the sheet metal. built a battery hood down and an exhaust pipe with a brace. Made a lexan headlight lens and got the head lights working. Painted the rims. Then, started in painting the sheet metal. That’s where I’m at today.

Rust-Oleum Regal Red seems to be the choice of many Wheel Horse owners. As far as the engine, the only area that gets hot enough to discolor the paint is around the exhaust. Decals from redoyourhorse.com (our vendor Vinylguy), may be a little pricy, but they are good, and as far as I know, they may be your only source for some one of a kind decals like dash panels and engine spec plates.

I brought an RJ home today. 5 hour round trip. Older restoration, hasn’t ran in years, piston is free. I’ll work on this in my spare time …. The gentleman threw in what he said was an original fabricated slot hitch. Can anyone confirm this? I know the front wheels are not correct, saw that right away. Its granddaughter approved !

Silly question - are the check valves installed in their proper direction - from the tank to let fuel in, to carb to let fuel out?? Are they functional, not stuck open??

i'm with oliver2-44. some PO must have done a little jerry rigging. to think someone dropped the tranny, opened it up and went thru all that time and trouble and not fix it correctly. good grief!

Yesterday after the initial coat of paint and filler primer, the body panels needed a bit more filler. after spot putty and apparently half kicked bondo that was still sticky today. I’ve got it figured out. After a scrape down of the old Bondo, and bit of new Bondo. It’s almost ready for another try at painting it. I’m going to attempt that before dark tonight if not tomorrow afternoon. It’s been an adventure😄

Start with 10 oz paint 1 1/2 of reducer and 1 oz hardener to start. And I usually end up with 10 oz paint and 2 oz reducer. with 1 oz hardener Start out on the low side on reducer you can always add. I never mix more than 10 oz of paint. I use those cheap Harbor Freight guns and run the feed near wide open. I move pretty fast on the first coat as the tack coat. About 10 minutes and re coat slower. Some like to touch the paint on an area like the tape and if the paint doesn't come off on your finger it is ready to re coat. The Mfg recommends 8 parts paint 2 parts reducer and 1 part hardener. Which is a little thinner than i prefer.

If you become a supporter of this site you can post all the pictures you want and we all think your name would look good in RED. You have received a great deal of support from Red Square, it is time for you to support Red Square.

@Bill D Hi Bill, I will gladly take those measurements for you when I get home. Currently camping on the ocean!

Healing takes time.

Looks like JD green. The oil pan may be different, but you can always swap you existing one on to it.

There is your plow mule for next year

Ya gets what ya paid for...... Rustoleum is a good "backyard" type of product - but - you need to wait about a month in order to apply the decals. It has a very slow cure time. Some folks buy the paint in quarts, mixing it with a hardening catalyst. That is best applied with a HVLP spraygun. Having bought several times from Vinylguy, I was never diaappointed....

Had a few out stretching their legs.

Today was paint day, I was also getting used to and dialing in my new gravity feed Husky paint gun. I got it in June for my birthday. The panels overall are going to need a little sanding and touch up especially the rear pan and guards as they were the first thing painted. The hood turned out great and no runs overall. It’s a learning curve. It beats using a spray can too.

Continued with the deep cleaning of the C-85. A few before and after pics:

This load I picked up the other day, was meant to mostly pass on to others. I did not mean to like this no name 14. I didn’t mean to want to keep it. Dangit! It runs great, and I think I can put it to good use. I sold the seat to Mark @Horsin'round at the big show. Well, now I need a seat. I got a cool one from @TonyToro Jr. at the show too. Let’s see now…

I'd be willing to bet they are made from Delrin. It's commonly used to make suspension bushings for DIY gokart/ dune buggies. It is easy to machine in a lathe and is fairly tough stuff. The PO could have made them on a hobby lathe.

Make sure the letters on the poles of the new switch match the old switch. Some switches are for battery ignition and some for Magneto ignition A Kohler Magnum engine would have a magneto ignition so therefore there should have a M on one of the switch poles Kohler K series engine would have a battery ignition and therefore it would need a I on the switch instead of the M. The 5 pin plug on the tractor wiring will fit both types of switches * You do NOT want to hook up a battery ignition switch to a magneto ignition engine as it will send voltage to the magneto and make it let out the magic smoke.

So, all was healing well. My hand was looking and feeling good, I trimmed some dead skin away, yee haw. The weekend came, and we were camping. 3 on 3 volleyball was suggested and that was going well also. Boys were up 1 game but it was getting close to becoming even. I went for a rogue ball, and managed to hit the back on my left hand with my right palm, immediately splitting it back open. Liquid bandage to the rescue, and no more volleyball. No more submerging in the pool. We basically started over. 🤦‍♂️ left handed face palm, of course…

@c-series donI know you have one of these decks. Would you mind taking some measurements for me? I'd appreciate it, thanks.

I did find a Stens replacement for the gear. The new rubber should do the trick

That makes sense. Parts “A & B” would need to be in reasonably close alignment in order to work together, and that extra wear will only complicate that. Hopefully with the cleaning and lubricating you did, the bendix assembly will able to move freely and function normally . -JD-

You got everything you need to know right here.

You know you’re hooked when you’re buying two at a time!! 😂👍🏻

I was the implementation lead on a project to transition a huge Virginia school district onto a new payroll system. Their original system paid teachers, aides, cafeteria workers, etc, over ten months, Sept-Jun, which was challenging for household budgeting, heath insurance payments, etc. While we were in the midst of fixing that, and other shortcomings, one administrator (only half-jokingly) said that many teachers would be happy if we could just pay their bills and give them an allowance! I realized in that moment that to succeed, our project had to include a lot of guidance and education for all the educators and staff and adjusted our plans accordingly.

Goodyear heard about my yard art... thought they'd circle the blimp around for the day... Denali was not amused... Ok ok... it's Woodward Dream Cruise today and we are on the northern dogleg...

I passed the Petersons Penmanship course in grade school and was good in math, but wasn't so good reading if the book wasn't about fishing, hunting, or baseball reading, writing, rithmatic....2 fer 3 ain't too bad

Looks like he put $300 as a down payment, and had a balance of $111.50, with subsequent payments after that. That's the way I read the receipt, anyways.

Busted. Yeah, I took the guard off at some point in the past, for some reason. I do have a piece of bent sheet metal duct-taped on as a hand guard, but that only works if my hand is in the normal "holding" position behind it. When this happened, I was just being in too much of a hurry to push that power button up into the "locked on" position, when my hand (the non-holding hand) slipped and went forward. I really don't know for sure that having the guard on there would have prevented this, or maybe it would have been a bit of "road rash" style buffing of the skin... which probably would have been more painful. Gonna put the guard back on, since I did actually find it after this happened.

Our only income is Social Security, a very small pension that my wife receives after retiring from the library, and my RMD (minimum required distribution from my IRA), we are very happy that we paid off our mortgage early and started to put that money into savings. We don't have car payments. My wife knows exactly how much money we need each month for regular bills, and we pay for everything with a credit card that earns us cash back. That credit card is paid off every month. We locked our credit reports so that credit card offers stop. I feel sorry for those who max out one card, get another, and so on. As those ads on TV say, you will never pay them off only making the minimum payments. When you hear that nearly half of Americans have $500 or less in their savings accounts, you have to wonder if schools even teach anything about budgets and finance to our students. I'll get off my soap box now

Wife filmed me on the C161, using it to move some organic horse exhaust residue 💩💩💩into a tidier pile. att.L6F5u4DmgN6xiVpmbebhMDvjtwZ4oXCAV_vQ9Nx-41k.mp4

Harvesting corn right now this is only about a 1/4 of it. Overall I did get less corn then I thought for the size of the corn plot. But it was the first year doing it and I learned some things.

'Merica!

Take em off and run old school highway pegs ... You got a z turn any way... I suppose old school mowing... all the 60's decks I got I should go to old school just for the halibut.

I figured that I had better get the newest one on here.

I am one of those twenty somethings lol well I just turned 30. The only thing on my house that I paid someone to do was the roof. I have replaced all the carpet and flooring in the house, and ran new PEX water lines. Dug out my crawlspace area 12'x30' area because it was only 6" from the dirt to the floor joists. Dug it out to about 24" clearance with a small shovel into 3 gallon buckets to get it out of the crawlspace, then into a trailer for the wheelhorse to do some work for me there lol I also installed a new furnace and added a AC unit (only had a furnace originally) And ran some new ductwork for that (part of the reason I had to dig out the crawlspace area) Then a big project I did was tear out my kitchen and dining room all the way down to bare studs and floor joists so new subfloor insulation and drywall. Repaired some minor structural issues from people messing with some openings through the years and added some barn beams in the openings. Built my own cabinets from bare stiles (that I got from habitat restore). And 4x8 panels for top sides and bottom of cabinets and built my own cabinets doors using a router table to cut the bevel and dado for the door panel. And made my countertops from 5x12 sheets of laminate. Also did the tile, trim, etc. But I am pretty fortunate to be able to do all that myself, I have a interest in woodworking and my profession is a inspector for mainly modular housing which is built to residential code. So I have more knowledge in that area then most 20-30 year olds.

Steve, my '57 has 4 bolts on the hood too.