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Finished the headlight mod.

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

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).

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…

So I figured things out and the brakes work. Can stall engine at low rpm and can hold back with full rpm. So now after a lot of trial and error I'm making a new link Z bar. Have to have it look nice. Well we will be at the show next year we're excited

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.

Wild, I am originally from Nebraska. Menards is one of the big three. Preferred Menards. And tried to support the locals till they started selling mostly chinesium. Then I was out

Here ya go. Just faint scars now. The fingernail I hit with a hammer a few weeks before the angle grinder incident will be obvious for quite a while longer. Nail is getting close to falling off...

Seeing the bumpout on the blower housing tells me that it is not a S/G style engine. Not that it couldn't be made into one though. Check the size & length of the output shaft - may be different. Yes, the model number would help.... Is there a place on top for the WH style dipstick?? That extended length one will not fit under the WH hood.

I waited for parts.

Headlight mod is done. It is a long way from lighting it up though I think I got ahead of myself a little here haha.

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

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

314-H is a great machine. Eaton hydros and Magnum 14 engines... all you need for almost any job. Nice score for sure!

@davem1111 my father was terrified of any electrical / mechanical hand devise , had a number of his friends loose , fingers , deep body scaring , severe cutting , that was in the early years of , powered anything . would not even use a power drill ! everything he had was old school hand power , there was no warnings or safety ideas , even implied . typically there was no training of any kind . have his tool supply in a canvas bag , those hand auger drills , were regularly used . time traveler , pete

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.

Missed a spot Looks good!

We've paid off our mortgage early too and have been debt free for many years. When we watch TV we see all kinds of ads for National Debt Relief and can't believe that many people would need that service, but apparently they do. We've never made that much money but have all we need and more. An old fella once told me that "it's not what you make, it's what you spend that counts." I jokingly tell people that "we can't afford a down payment on a free lunch!" One of my nicknames is - Dirt Poor Denny! C-85 aka Dennis

It's barely getting into the 90's so I replaced the worn bearings and leaking seals in the two stage in case the snow is right around the corner. I had some Ace International red that was dark and didn't gloss at all. I went back to Ace and bought more that had the same part number but a bright red cap, it was real close to Toro red and worked well.

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.

Good grief @cleat!!!! I've never seen one of your machines dirty before!

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.

I'm going to say late 56 if the steering wheel is original to the tractor I thought most 57's used the rj58/59/60/61 style steering wheel but that they started stamping wheel hose in the hood some time in 56 after they got thier patent on the name Brian

Nice find Steve. I like the oiled up look . Mike............