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Stopped by a local Antique Engine and Tractor Show today and saw this creation!

Little work on the 314H today. New front rims, bearings, tires and tie rods. Quick touch up of some of the body parts.

July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, performing a rock-and-roll set publicly for the very first time while a chorus of shouts and boos rained down on him from a dismayed audience. Six weeks before the 1965 festival, Bob Dylan had recorded the single that marked his move out of acoustic folk and into the idiom of electrified rock and roll. “Like A Rolling Stone” had only been released five days before his appearance at Newport, however, so most in the audience had no idea what lay in store for them. Neither did festival organizers, who were as surprised to see Dylan’s crew setting up heavy sound equipment during sound check as that evening’s audience would be to hear what came out of it.

I also put the key that I got from @JCM on it.

Got quite a bit done today while it was raining which we needed. The drought here has been bad (technically exceptional which is the worst category). Swapped dash panels between the 16 Auto and 161 because I switched the electric and manual PTOs. All good to go but a bit of work on the harnesses. Also drilled and tapped the hubs for a second set screw on the 161. Surprised that hadn't been done but it's good to go now. Need to do an oil change on the 161 gear box and get the rear wheel weights on and it will be ready for the FEL

Scored some rear WH wheel weights and some FMC wheel weights today . The WH weights are going on the C160 if I dont change my mind. Leaning 520H for the FMC weights. They look just like some Bolens weights I have seen before. Got the xtra 7 1/2” WH wheels for free. Been a good morning these wheel weights are pretty rare around here so I’m happy to have found them.The WH weights are white but think I like um red better did certain years have red and others have white weight?

This is my hub puller. Works well. Cheep to make. Plenty of variations have been made.

Got my first look at a WH with a hit & miss a couple of years ago at the Big Show as it was being driven around the grounds. Perhaps not too practical but a great demonstration of elegant ingenuity.

Got the carb cleaned up and gone through and was able to start it. After that, I had to mess around with the drive pulley to get it to go on all of the way. The surging in the video is because I forgot I had my gas turned off at the tank. I was able to drive it around a little bit tonight. I put about a quart of an unopened thing of ATF that I found in the back of my grandma's garage that I think is older than me but I figured it's good enough for temporary to help flush the tranny. Tomorrow I need to swap the wide front axle onto our 1257 and take the narrow axle I put on the 1257 onto my 845. I also need to mess with the governor some.

It's alive

I love my HC mows nice and I can zip around quickly, @sqrlgtr would have to pry my cold dead hands off it when I croak

Well that's just nuts!

My wheel weights are painted almond to match the wheels

as an fyi - - for those who have the traditonal oem weights and have damaged decals in center ----- I checked and found that there are replacement decals available for those in need from REDOYOURHORSE Vinyl Guy?

That is the frame and side drive system for an older (1960-1970) style mowing deck. This deck drive system was replaced with the current front mule drive system. to the

Down to Massachusetts helping my mom for a day. Trina pressure washed the entire back deck. Scraped the old paint off. Repeat. Repeat. Then... Removed the chicken wire that stapled all over the inside to keep the former dog in. I added a few screws to the ballusters. We replaced a post off the back steps. Then Trina painted ALL of the vertical parts and rails and ballusters. Inside. Outside. Steps. New. Old. Completed, not like it used to be - half covered. Tomorrow morning she's intending to paint the deck surface.

As we are proud grand parents and its little Franks first birthday, what better than his first Wheel Horse. Built by his clever uncle Ewan…

I always try to fall in the functional ingenuity bucket, as I certainly have hit the dysfunctional nail a few times. As to elegant one can always wish

hello there - got a 312-8 the other day and the previous owner made som modifications that im trying to undo. also im missing som parts and other things i dont think is for my machine or attachments. here are my questions: 1. how to i find out what year my 312-8 is from ? its missing the decals with serial number, the m12s engine serial starts with 17 and it may be from 1987 ? 2. i got a big bracket that i dont know what is for, its not for my cutting deck, snowthrower or the rototiller. 3. i got a smaller bracket that i also dont know is for, im missing the bracket that sits under the pto for my tiller, is there any one that has some messurements for it ? im thinking of making my own as getting used parts is kinda hard here in denmark where i live 4. the front pully assembly (mule drive?) is missing the nut and id like to know what size thread it has so i can buy a new one. 5: and lastly i think the linkage to the rear slot hitch is some homemade crap, it hits the rubber boot for the shift linkage, is that not supposed to be a wire ? can anyone tell me what the part number is for the complete cable im missing. there will more as i pogress on servicing the 312-8 as the previous owner has not been to kind to this tractor and i will get it to shape best regards kris from denmark

Worked on 416H. Started w/decarbon & valve adjustment. Neither of which were really too bad. Since that all went well it looks like its gonna be worth putting some time & money into it. Glad to see cooling fins, especially on back cylinder were clean. 9 pin looks good also but I'll still do some preventive repairs to avoid any issues.

Ridgewell Larson F-1310 Engine: 3.1 liter 4 cylinder diesel (45 horsepower) Transmission: Power-Shuttle (6 speed gear with powershift High/Low/Reverse shuttle control) Weight: 4500 lbs (operating) 5600 lbs (ballasted) Pictured with no attachment, front loader, and 72" belly mower.

@ineedanother They are wheel horse rims. I purchased one off flea bay and the other I picked up from a friend of mine.

Speaks to flywheel key I suppose. I'm going to examine the exhaust system right now because this is really bugging me. So there is nothing living or dead in the muffler. Happened to have a shop vac attachment that made a good seal on the muffler. Even released the muffler from exhaust port and had suction from the shop vac. So back to flywheel key.

Is your engine spec number 471546? Good chance your tractor is a 1988 model E1-12K801. It took a while for the engines to land on a tractor and 1988 models would have been available in October 1987. Two pages of search results in no particular order for the E1-12K801 https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/search/?&q=e1-12k801&type=downloads_file&page=1&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy

Hello and welcome to the group. Yes, the nut is 3/4" 16 fine thread. You will find your rear lift parts and more here. https://wheelhorsepartsandmore.com/

Bar: Looks like it fits well. I wonder about shifting gears? Or is it just one gear? But still it looks like somebody put some time into this figuring out how it’s going to work with a hit and miss installed. I guess if you have the time and the parts you can make anything.

I was afraid I hadn’t back filled enough soil on the lilies. I had the big trailer full of dirt that needed to be emptied. I am happy to see fresh growth on the greens! Trailer is empty, maybe another good drink for the plants, and they should be good to go according to my mentors.

This is when they were painted black

The problem was the noise from the Trac Vac is so loud i could not hear the engine bog down. When it kept slowing down and stopping I thought it was running out of fuel. Guess I cleaned all the grease off the brake lining. Yeah, I should probably move this gear drive down the road before I total it. I've had some near misses when I push the left pedal to stop and it just goes faster.

Bill, I actually believe the FMC weights have a big enough center to allow mounting on rim before mounting wheel to tractor, I do have a set that has too small a center on a 1257 and believe those are also Bolens, but now that I think about it, they may be Gravely? pic of 1257 weights in pic below.

Could be said by nearly all of us. In short sir, you are not alone!

I usually try to have my wood ready before now. I try to keep a year ahead, but I'm off the pace this year, and that tree would go a long way towards making up the difference. We are going to her grandson's birthday party another 20 minutes up the road next Saturday. I may go up and work on that in the morning, catch a ride with up with Kristin, go home after the party, and then come back for it Sunday, as she lives about 5 minutes from our church.

Toro xi belt notes 95-4094 (5/8" x 96.7") drive belt for 52" deck - This belt is correct and also used with 44" decks

still got a BOLO out on a front set,.

@Sodaking27 where did you source the rims? You like?

Open exhaust and worn plugs. Seems to run lean but when I partially close the choke it evens out. May do a carb rebuild. Don't know if it had ethanol in a previous life.

Cleat: many years ago when I had a mind. I had a c141 it was in need of wiring. Now I am no electrician. But I took my time and I figured it out one wire at a time some need to be replaced, but I got through it..

Got everything unloaded today and used the air gun to blow out all of the years of debris accumulation. The tractor is actually in overall pretty good condition considering it sat outside unused for at least 12 years. The engine does turn over and has compression so the first task will be to replace the fuel line, fuel filter and probably pull the carburetor and clean it in the ultrasonic cleaner. The engine oil looks good and the same for the gearbox oil. I plan on changing the engine oil before trying to start it and once the engine is running I'll change the gearbox oil and filter and then see if it will move under it's own power. After inspecting the gas tank I realized that it's not the original tank So I'm now on the hunt for an original replacement tank. I also found that while the air filter base is correct, it had the wrong filter and was using a hub cap for the cover So I'm also on the hunt for the correct air filter cover. While fiddling with the front grille I noticed that there were no holes for the bottom pins to fit into. Looking closer I found that the lower front cross member was installed upside down. I have since rotated the cross member and now the grille fits properly. I wonder how many years it has been like that. It doesn't have a battery tray so I've been searching for some sort of replacement. More than likely I'll just fabricate one myself so if anyone knows the dimensions that would help tremendously

Even had them painted red

How do you put a value on something that you made into a "one of a kind?" Then really make it special by shipping it half way across the country so a good friend who couldn't be there can see it and ad his signature? When RS members started signing the 20th anniversary banners at the Big Show, I knew I wanted a certain name on it that wasn't at the show. So I sent this to @stevasaurus so he could actually see it in person and autograph it for me. I was leery sending a 4 ft. long box through the mail so NATURALLY it got stuck in Indiana for like 4 days! But it finally arrived and the return trip was flawless. worth all the hand-wringing on my end. If someone wanted to buy the banner from me before I sent it, I would have had a hard time putting a dollar amount on it. Now there is no amount of $$$ I would consider. Someone will get it when I'm gone. PRICELESS!

That is super awesome Mike. Are those banners going to be avaliable to other members? I haven't even seen where the decals are. Let me guess.......it went through Indianapolis, right? Only held up 4 days? That's pretty much record fast for them. 😁

You can get more tension on the std Wheel a Matics by replacing the 2 slot head screws with longer allen head screws with a couple of washers. You can it tighter with an allen wrench as opposed to a slot head screw . I did this a year ago and it's still tight.

The last couple of days I've done the little nitpicky jobs like welding some hood mounts on, wiring up the kill switch, installing the throttle and choke cable, putting oil in the engine, and running the fuel line. I'm close to being able to run and drive it I just need to get the carb straightened out because at the moment it only runs on a shot of brake clean and isn't getting fuel. I did pop the line if the carb to make sure I had fuel going to it but I think the main problem is that its all gummed up from old fuel because when I took the bowl off it smelled like varnish and it was very dark and cruddy.

Nice driving car, my mom had one in blue. The trunk was massive. And the car was so easy to fix. Nothing like we have now.

Making more progress on the F-1310.

That would be the placement but we were thinking about raising them up by like an 1/8 to a 1/4 inch, not too much that it looks stupid, just enough to have a little more tire clearance

Hi Don...... I still have the Eddie Murphy Tractor.......My son as Darb can attest to has a match also a 418-A ......Many folks here from Red Square have seen my herd and purchased many things from me through the years ....