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This is in relation to this thread: Me and the wife took the 8 hour round trip to Pontiac, Illinois (yes, I know I'm horse rustling in another state), to pick up the 520-H. It's in great shape and it came with the original owners manual for the tractor, deck, vacuum system, etc. It even had the original brochure. If you can see from the pictures, the manuals have stickies on them, oil filter, air filter, etc. part numbers, maintenance dates, etc. There were two Fram filter boxes also, empty of course. I will be scanning this stuff later to add to the manuals section. The leaf bags and chute I took off and put in the cab of the truck. The bags were full of stuff also, blades, deck covers, etc. The trip was interesting. Lost the license plate on the trailer on the way up there (any suggestions on making the license plate stay instead of those filmsy plastic plate holders, etc.?). Fought the cold and wind in Pontiac to load it up. The dealer was very nice and I got another cap from another John Deere dealer. I sort of collect dealer hats (I have a lot of them so far). More to follow later. It's time to go to work now.

Just started sorting out the wiring on my recently purchased D-200.Looks like I'll be rewiring most of it.Got a new ignition switch pigtail on it's way.Previous owner re-located the starter solenoid on the engine air shroud.Gonna mount it back on the frame.I can see where it should be mounted,but so far,can't get my hands in there to bolt it down.Quit that project for now and moved on to repair the wiring from the engine to the rectifier.Good Lord........that rectifier is worse to get to than the solenoid.So those engineers way back when,must have went on to teach the next generation of automotive engineers.

Hey guys. I've been lurking on this site for a couple weeks now looking at all of your wonderful Wheelhorse tractors and learning what I can about mine. My uncle called me and asked if I wanted a WH. That's an easy one!! I've been in love with the WH's since I was a kid. Anyway one of the mounting points on the mower deck had rusted thru so he decided get a new cub cadet. The new to me WH is a 312-8. It had 312 hours on it when I brought it home. I've spent a few hours cleaning it up and mounting the dozer blade. Here's a couple of pics. the 1st pic is prior to clean up. Looking forward to learning more about them!

One goes to ground and the other to the condenser. The condenser has been removed from the holder in this picture. From the condenser it runs to the points and kill button. Check the resistance from the plug wire to one of the black wires. Use the 20,000 ohm scale. Ideally it should be under 6 ohms.

Yes it does. Don't mean to hijack your post just want to offer you some more information I posted some info and link to my cab modifications on your post in the electrical section. Here's a picture of my setup. You will have more than enough light. Original tractor lighting is disconnected . I also have a small 18 W on the rear that is connected to my reverse switch. Only comes on when I push on the reverse peddle. Also included a picture of my control panel. Let me know if you want details.

Don't know if it's legal where you live but I bolted my trailer tag to the lower left corner of the gate/ramp (bolt heads inside when up),Jeff.

You got to remember that when the D Series came out, WH was owned by AMC. And you know how complicated wiring in a car can be, even back in the 70s, as they were just starting to get a bit more complicated than they were before.

Slim, was there a year ago, just for you. Enjoy........ Glenn

Okay, as Paul Harvey said, here is the "rest of the story". We left the house at about 4:30 CST, pulling an empty trailer with our '01 Dodge Dakota 4WD Quad Cab with the 4.7 V8. If you ever drove across I-255 from the Mississippi River to where you would venture off at the I-55/I-70 interchange, you know how rough that section of the road is. It's rough and makes an empty trailer bounce around quite a bit. No problem, at least I thought, since I drove the same trailer, empty, across this section a couple of other times. We stopped after going 144 miles on I-55 somewhere south of Springfield, and north of Lebanon, Illinois. We noticed after passing a few gas stations where gas was $2.25 or more, this station had it at $2.09. Only burn about a quarter of a tank, so why not filled up, use the restroom and grab another Diet Mountain Dew for me and a Diet Pepsi for my wife. That's when I noticed the trailer plates had lost one bolt and was hanging by just one bolt. A quick look into the truck's glove box and every orifice it had revealed just a wire tie. So I tie the other end of the plate up and went inside the convenience store to see if they had some some screws and nuts. Not very convenient as it turns out this store had none. So I figured, we're be okay until we can get some. Off we go, until we're just south of Pontiac where there's a rest area. Remember we stopped and got sodas each, so it's time to use the rest area. It was smooth sailing since the roadway was pretty smooth. We stopped and I check the license plate again, which is now completely gone. But the one bolt and nut is still there. Great. We get on the phone with Missouri Department of Revenue who isn't any help, we're left alone in a foreign country without a passport, work visa, and worse, no license plate on the trailer. The only advice the Missouri DOR gave us was this, as soon as we get to Missouri stop at the first license bureau and get new plates. We get to Pontiac where all goes smooth. We load up, and man it's cold and windy. The temperature isn't bad, maybe 30, but that wind made it feel like 10 (or colder to me, a wimp like me when it comes to cold weather). I decided the bags will be okay hooked to the tractor but I strapped them secure anyways. We start to head home where we noticed a BP where gas is $1.99. Cheap by Illinois standards, so we stop yet again. My wife is worried about the bags, so I take them off and strap the top part down. Remember it's cold here in Pontiac, and did I mentioned, windy. Oh, btw, the wife says, the right rear tire on the truck is low. Great, but there is a air machine there. 4 quarters later and the tire is aired up. Head inside to the rest room and a coffee now, since I froze outside gassing up, airing up and strapping up. Off we go, where we stop once again and ate at a Subway. Why is it that there is a Subway at every exit on I-55 in Illinois? They're everywhere. Made it home, without too much more incident. Oh yeah, the strap coming off the bagger top, but it rested against the ramp gate. It's a lot warmer in Missouri, so no big deal this time. Life is good.

312 hours.....that's barely broken in. We should all have Uncles like that. Now the addiction takes over. Get the blower, then the cab, then another tractor for the deck and ...............

ok, here they are mounted on the cab, nice, low profile, clean look. And for you guys worried about getting through the garage door and ripping them off, you can see the profile is lower than the cab roof. Now I need to wire them up. Just showing options, you dont need the big box, or round light assembly. Heres a few pics. Glenn

12-7-1941 Excerpts from "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz. Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters everywhere you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?" Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?" Nimitz explained: Mistake number one: The Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800. Mistake number two: When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships. Mistake number three; Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make, God was taking care of America. Any way you look at it--Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism. President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat. Our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST, he watched over us in 1941 and continues to do so today. CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!

Sorry about the pops and cracks at the beginning of these, one microphone going out on my phone. First Run: Cold Start and Test Drive: WARNING: Bad videography - The test drive may make you dizzy. The only good video is at the beginning, then the rest is just for the sound of the sweet ECH730 humming along

Bob, I didn't wire them up yet, all I did was mount them. Yes, I will use spade or bullet connections for taking the cab off. I went to wire them last night and didn't have half of what I needed, everything in the electric box got feet and walked again. I will post pictures when done. Glenn

It's snowing here today and tomorrow so I'll head out tonight when it's dark and shoot some video. Replacing a head gasket today on the 603 and modifing the choke.

So true -- my 180 has the PTO set-up and I recently needed to rebuild my Ross steering box, you guessed it - the PTO shaft had to come out in order to get to the Ross steering. Both of these are incredibly hard to work with! PS: I left the PTO shaft off, I wasnt about to put that thing back in when I dont have, nor ever will have, anything to use it with. All that griping aside I still love my "D's"

It's a disease that predates the Wheelhorse lol!! I just can't help myself! Thanks!! I am absolutely looking forward to working it! BTW thats a pretty good eye you've got there. Not many outside of the Mopar world could have guessed that by just a rear quarter pic. That's my other baby! 67 Plymouth Fury 3 4 door hardtop.

I either make a mount off the fender or one of the frame rails on the trailer out of decent weight metal (1/8"+) , all welded . Bolt the plate to that using nylocks and flat washers and install an led plate lamp - never had an issue that way . In Illinois we have to run those larger plates like on a regular vehicle , wish they would allow the smaller plates like some other states as they are half the size....grrr. The roads for the most part in Illinois are crap - half due to the snap weather changes and that wind we get and the other half from the State legislature robbing far too much out of the highway fund to prop up the general fund . For the last 13yrs or so all we've been allowed to do on major highways is band-aid overlays and depth patches - I've worked on too many jobs now where we're joining old patches with new ones - it looks like a sadistic quilt of concrete in new and old . Hopefully that will change soon...hard telling . Pretty sweet 520 for sure , good score Sarge

Very nice! One problem, I am allergic to TORO decals. I staple gun belt sleeves, filter box lids, whatever, all with part numbers on a ceiling beam in my barn. Poor memory, going on seventy.

VERY nice,clean looking 520H.Gotta remember about those license plates.........They gotta have a light on them.

T-MO Nice find on the H. Real clean looking some took care of it. I like your trailer also nice set up. as for the plate I do see a lot of people put them on the ramp. may run a light over it for night use. Enjoy. 520H+ I like the old F body in your pick.

Boy or boy, that is a clean one. And you know how I am with getting paperwork. A BIG bonus for me is the paperwork. Best of luck, will be looking for more pictures when you can. Glenn

I am sorry I missed this thread, I have a special attachment to this day being that my father was there that day, serving aboard the USS PENNSYLVANIA. Great posts fellas. Glenn

I had the same problem with one of these lifts. They were designed to lift the tractors with the front tubular bumpers. The WH front axles are too wide to securely stay in the small Cs on the lift. I considered welding on larger Cs, but I sold mine and just use my floor jack.

The tractor hood is repainted (about 10 years ago using Toro Red paint). My tractor is only used 10 to 15 hours a year (which may help explain it); when not in use it is garaged and even when not in use (don't tell anyone) gets cleaned and waxed pretty regularly--LOL Here is a pic of its "younger" siblings--LOL

Three years ago I bought the two stage. I rebuilt it over the summer. I haven't used it since. Mother nature is strange that way.

@MikesRJ Yeah, yeah,yeah...you should have just said that the dogs ate your server.

Over lunch break today... was finally able to make some room around here, by selling the back up for my back up tractor. Ahh, ain't it grand... that happy smile of a first time owner.

Have you changed the ht lead plug cap, ive had trouble with one of those. Is the kill switch grounding out and killing the spark, have you tested the condenser. is the point gap right. are the points opening and closing

This has helped me find which attachment works with which tractor.

The transmission mount is the strongest. Plus it allows you to raise and lower it from the middle. The leverage is better. IE Makes it easier to lift.

Nothing yet😉

I'm okay with the Toro logo - they did their part in keeping Wheel Horse around another 20 years.

Beautiful 520...and the manuals and service records make the deal even sweeter. As far as the license plate goes I would fab some kind of metal bracket that allows you to put four bolts in the plate instead of just the top two...can't really tell you what works and what doesn't as where I'm from in Oklahoma privately owned trailers are not required to be tagged, it's optional but only commercial trailers are required

Materials we used were 2 pieces of 1/4 plate 48" x 7" a few bits of angle iron and rod from the scrap bin and a mounting plate from an old mower deck Heres a few more Just takes a few minutes to fit and first tests were very successful, we can use the blade straight or angle it either way

Nice looking WH. And at 312 hours, it's just getting broke in. The Kohler Magnums are great engines. Go get that other WH. Pictures when you do.

Nice Horse! We are all sure, you'll love that Stallion! Updates......Required.

You could have stopped in to see Steve!

From the 1991 520-H operator manual Garry

Thought I would post a follow-up on this one... I hadn't given up on doing something like that little Cub in my first post, and finally got around to working on it again. I knew if I put anything on the back, I probably didn't want the engine exposed. I have seen a screen over the back part of the body on some versions of these, but I'm not sure the Workhorse version ever had one. Rather than try to track one down, I got a HVAC return screen from Lowes and bent and cut it to fit. The next step was some sort of cargo bed for the back. I kicked around several ideas, but finally settled on sort of a cargo rack like you would have on a quad. The best part is the rack is primarily made up by guard rails off one of my son's old toddler beds that I couldn't bring myself to throw away. On the front I mounted a bumper that is made for MTD riding mowers. I had to hack up the mounting brackets, fab some additional brackets of my own, and drill some holes underneath to get it all to work, but it ended up looking pretty clean. Of course you have to have lights on a front bumper like that, so I mounted some LED's just in case. Last weekend we had our first snow. I had to scramble to finish getting the C-160 ready for snow duty, but once I did and the plowing was done, I hopped on the RR832 for a little play. It's no quad, but it still did a pretty good job running around the yard.

Thank you for remembering Jason, I pinned it to the top for today!

Some of you may remember that our own @Sparky went down and got some great pictures at the USS Arizona memorial just last year! see this topic.....

Rob, if it has it use it. Maybe that engine has the possibility of icing.

A special Thank You to the Greatest Generation!

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue." Chester W. Nimitz

I tried to submit these as separate posts but they got combined into one. 1977 D-160 with plow 1977 D-160 with plow 1977 D-160 with plow 1977 D-160 with plow 1977 D-160 with plow

RedRanger, in honor of your poll, here's my Red Ranger with 33 years of patina.