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Just got my repop aluminum tombstone weight back,had a buddy of mine polish it, planning on putting it on my 701 I think he did a great job...

I know not a wheelhorse, but he thinks it is and he is in heaven.

I used my tiller for the first time yesterday. It took 1 1/2 hours to till up a garden for one of my friends. Here are a few photos. I took two passes and then lowered the tiller down one chain knotch and ended up tilling about 6 inches deep. I always wondered how these things operated and now I know a little bit more about it!

Finally got the motor block all prepped. Degreased and honed and valves lapped in. Now to start putting back together between grass cutting and the other springtime chores.

I am posting this here because I believe this has general interest. My wheel horse collection has grown to the point where I either needed to put up a building to store them or find another solution. Putting up a building is a permanent solution and would increase my real estate taxes. Instead, I decided to purchase large enclosed dual axle all aluminum snow mobile trailers with drive in drive out ramps on the front and back to store my collection. No building site work or permits needed, no increase in real estate tax, and if my therapist can somehow convince me, or my heirs, to reduce my collection, the trailers can be sold. The trailers can also be locked and they look good compared to other storage options and they are less expensive than some of the similar sized storage sheds I have looked at, and, they can be easily moved. I also have plenty of property in order to put them out of sight if I choose to do that. Due to the above and other reasons, I now have a number of trailers of different sizes and tongue heights to move around my properties. Some have high tongues and some have low tongues. Thanks to other members who make some great hitches for us, we have several options to mount hitches or receivers on the backs of our tractors but not as many options for the front of our tractors. I was looking for a 2 x 2 receiver for the front of one of my tractors. One of our members, wildcruiser, makes front hitches (see one of his hitches at eBay auction 141257584969). I consulted with widcruiser to see if he had or could make up a front hitch with a 2 x 2 receiver. He came up with a hitch for me that works perfectly for my needs and he will be offering them through his eBay store and at the show in June. I could not upload all the pictures that I wanted to show so here are three to illustrate the new hitch from wildcruiser. One of the pictures that I could not upload shows a very tall 9 inch hitch for my larger trailers. I intend to use the hitch to move empty trailers around which should be well within the load limits of the hitch and the front tachmatic. Some load testing may be needed to advise as to the limits for its use. For example, you may not want to try to use it to winch your truck out of a ditch or use it to pull a tree down using the front of your tractor. The hitch is perfect for my needs and my thanks go out to wildcruiser for making it up for me and offering it to others.

I am speechless. My 12 year old said "wow!" I wish that I could curse now! Effin awesome just doesn't emphasize enough how I feel about this tractor! Bob, you are truly a magician, Brrly you are the man!

I just saw Brrly's avatar and instantly checked out the restorations page on the forum..... to see if there was more pictures. This thing is just to cool. I love how it was kept true to its roots from the dash , throttle controls , gas tank, hydro lever . Like it was said earlier. If wheel horse built a gt14 4x4 ,this would be it. Great work. I love the gt14s and sometimes I dont like when people mess with things but this tractor is the exception. Well worth the wait. Kyle

One owner machine, PO worked it it's whole life... and all I've done was wax the bejezus out of it.

Bob, I don't care what color it is...pink, purple, passion fruit.....your builds are "TOTALLY AWESOME"!!!

Other side done, I can now pass the drive from the front to the rear

Truly a thing of beauty :)

Hmm that is one really AWESOME tractor... Really good work.

Thanks for the compliments guys- I know a lot of you are following me on Facebook. I hope this is enough Red to tide everyone over for a while. I have to move onto some other interesting colors for a change of pace. Red and Green have been fun but its about time to try something new. Hoping someday I can actually build one for myself in Red to keep, but for now I'm having fun helping others achive their dream machine!

Gonna miss my "White Hood" But now I'm on the hunt for something that will make me look like a circus bear on a tri- cycle!

You guys can probably tell that the tractor has been painted by the photos in the gallery. I am going to throw a couple more out there for now and see maybe we can get some good weather and maybe a video who knows. As this process has been moving forward the words that I look for are like "awesome". How else would you desdribe it?

Not for sure where this falls in topics, but look if you want to. Specialwheelhorse Jim would have taken 1st and 2nd place for show but they wouldn't vote wanting to make all feel as had best. We hope in the future more of these shows will come this way. Many good folks, food, parts, implements, and memories! I am still wondering what I'm gonna do with the plow, although have been wanting one since acquired WH in 1981 Ummm, jambalaya, sausage samich, home made ice cream and tractors! Footnote: Yes I realize this is a WH small tractor forum, but I am proud of our American mechanical engineering ingenuity. I tried to get some of those fine examples, represented pictorially here. Brings back the farm hand days.

Today my 1981 IH Cub Cadet 582 Special was finally picked up. It was sold a year ago but the new owner never retrieved it until today. Tom Rupprecht's hitch with crane attachment for the HF crane came in handy as the Peerless 2300 transmission was locked in gear. The previous owner of my house had pushed it into the field where it was abandoned. Not wasting any time (much to my wife's chagrin!) it was off to the local tractor show where I bought this 1952 David Bradley Model 917.57560 "Super Power." It has a 2 1/4 hp Briggs model 8 engine. The first model sold with the more powerful engine, it still retained the red hood. This one runs compared to the Cub! Being from Illinois originally, I had to have a piece of Illinois history. This should be an easy restore as it is complete. Just to give a size perspective, I parked it next to the 518xi. The 16" wheels are impressive! Downside is when I go to replace the tires, they will cost three times what I paid for the Bradley. But seeing as the Cub was free and the Bradley cost the same as what I sold the Cub for, I am ahead in the game - so far.

I just got done driving the 417 and 416 around the yard. Parked them in the barn and was getting ready to close it up for the night. I was finishing my can of beer, looking at the black hood just sitting there. I said what the hell. Cranked her for about 15 seconds. Something sounded a little different. Cranked her again for about 15 seconds and Hot Damn! She started to run! I sat down and throttled up. The 16 horse shook at idle but at full throttle she smoothed right out and was quiet. I took up and down the driveway going thru all the gears : everything was good! I didn't do anything but clean out the tank, flush the lines, and put in a filter. I changed the spark plug, cleaned out the bowl and sprayed the crap out of the carb with cleaner. She sounds good with just a few small backfires at full throttle: I will adjust the carb tomorrow.

I got the C145 with ARC loader running today the motor sounds good but the tractor won't move. It has a manual trans and doesn't move forward or back and the input shaft does turn so I'll be pulling the transaxel and replacing it with one from a C101. I'm going to try to fix the one I pull is there anything that jumps out as a possible cause for the problem? Ed

Looks good, I like it!

I SOLD THIS TRACTOR TODAY. TO A WHEEL HORSE COLLECTOR.

Check the hi/lo shifter, might be in between gears.

Thanks to fellow member Shawn, aka Cutlas3391, I finally got my elusive black hood. I traded my GT-14 for a 1984 C-165. I think that she looks awesome. She is in pretty good shape and just needs a good cleaning, fresh gas and tune up. Shawn is a helluva guy and I just want to thank him again! Thanks bro! My plans are to give her a 10 foot resto; looks fine from 10 feet but not perfect up close. We are talking rattle cans and elbow grease! She will definitely be a worker.

Your setup should be similar to the parking brake assembly from my '68 Commando... which I've shown here for reference.

I used mine for the first time last fall. Lots of fun isn't it! I was very happy with the result. I did not need weights but I do have Ag tires. I used to use a mold board plow but sold it a few years back. Your garden looks to me to be about 2-3x the size of mine. I am getting too old to have a big garden and all the kids have grown and moved on. Still too wet here in SE Mass to till, another two weeks!

I do just before we go to the big show in Pa.

I used to work in a marina, we had a spinner box built into an angle iron bench with a wood top, standard procedure was to remove the mag and put it on the spinner box to set the spring tension on the points and then spin the mag to set the dwell instead of just using feeler gauges, Rule 1, ground the coil output before turning on the spinner box/motor, did I mention make sure to ground the coil output before turning on the spinner box, Rule 2, don't touch the angle iron frame of the bench while you're holding the body of the mag and spinning it to set the points, final test was to disconnect the coil output ground and check for spark while spinning the mag. anything less than a spark that would jump a 1'' air gap was considered unacceptable. If you don't think that that much spark will light your fire try becoming the coil out ground or get close to the bench frame and be the air gap to test the coil for spark, you won't do it a second time.

I think I see in that diagram the pieces that are missing. That lever should hold the clutch pedal in and the belts disengaged. I will have to draw it back home this weekend and work on it. Safe is a relative term, one would think that gear shift is safe but it isn't. If I can put the right parts on there to make the parking brake / clutch hold work properly then the problem will be solved. No mower deck on this one. Mowing grass is the cows job.

Looks like they are both the same. left side right side

no matter which type you choose get 4 ply you will need the extra weight rating with the loader

Everyone, Some of our garden tractor Brethren on the John Deere section of mytractors forum have put up some postings on the Onan's used on the JD318 model garden tractor (and maybe some other models) and the problems/solutions they have found. I think some of this stuff is applicable to our Onan powered Wheelhorse tractors. I posted a link to Redsquare over there and thought I'd do the same here. I feel the more info on the Onans the better - regardless of tractor color. Here is the link: http://www.mytractorforum.com/showthread.php?t=560282 Hopefully this is helpful. Thanks! Bill

I'd say a bit less but I'm a cheapskate, unless the transmission and axel you mention are included, ad doesn't list . The real question is how badly or quickly you want to get rid of it. Not trying to be a critic, just a suggestion. It is a clean lookin roller.

Welcome to the darkside! Well.....black hood side anyway. Outside of the twin blackhoods, (the C-175 and the Super C), the 16 horse single fills that void under the hood better than anything I've seen short of a Van Guard upgrade. Nice tractor!

I've kinda of taken to these blackhoods too....in fact...I have a question....gonna PM you....

Having one of those would save on a lot of puffin & pulling . nice find , a must for every RJ pwner

Ditto!!!

Got to spend a little time on the ranger today....finally got it on all 4's again. Most of my time was in fixing previous mistakes of assembly...had to take the motor off again because I ran the oil drain on the wrong side, and also realized I put the dash on wrong again and its sitting a little sideways, but I think it will be ok..as there is a little play in the hood. Otherwise I basically have to take the whole tractor back apart which I really don't want to do even though I should. Found out my throttle cables don't match which was dissapointing when they came together as a set, so I will order one that will match the choke cable at a different date....anyways as far as good things I did get the belt guard, back wheels, fenders and started running the throttle cables. Here's a updated picture.

I'd give you that price for it. If I needed a tractor chassis.

I hear ya. Same goes for me as far as the show. Got a lot going on all around the same time.

Kinda like the idea of smoked mole, so I thought I'd givem a taste of Horse CO. Several horses were happy to join the hunt.

Looking good with the decals there James! Enjoying watching the progress on yours too gulftane. Andy

Anyone showing up Friday night?

Thanks ... bit of a wait now, the frame is at the weld shop, he has the 1/8th material for the bottom section, but the top side frames are 3/32, and he had to order that, so we wait!!

This is what produces the tapping noise that keeps the critters out of my yard. http://www.beeman.com/store/product.asp?ret_id=1240879&pid=66381

I will try to take and send a picture. Basically, I made the receiver hitch from a pickup hitch. I then attached the latches for the snowplow/tiller hitch to the arms of the hitch for the receiver. I kept the height from the ground of the tiller latches about the same as if it was on the axle as originally planned. This allowed me to move the attachment point of the tiller to the rear several inches which necessitated a longer belt. The drive and idler from the tractor remained the same. I have no idea why the posting is in such small type and don't know what that will do to an attached picture. Send me your direct email and I will try to send the picture that way. John

Got that stubborn Flywheel off today. I tried last Saturday but it wouldn't cooperate. So I kept brushing on red cider vinegar around the crank and wheel to break down the rust. I heated it with a heatgun and hit it with the impact gun and it popped today. It is filthy though and needs a good cleaning.

Ok that'll be it for tonight . We'll see if we can get some more if not a video. We have Bob's son Robert doing our test driving. Have a good one

Finally got some spare time to do a little more assembly. Its been real busy for awhile felling trees and splitting wood for the M.I.L. Got the seat hardware on along with the rest of the dash and steering wheel. I guess I have to get to work on the hood next.I have been dredding that.It will need some body work to straighten out.

I couldnt get the wheel I am going to use off the shaft so I set up a crude E-tank and cooked it for 5 hours and that did the trick. Put it in the vise and it twisted right off.

What about the intake screen? Where can i get a new one?