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August 17, 1933 MLB player Lou Gehrig plays his record 1,308th consecutive game.

Haven’t had a Wheel Horse for about 28 years since I gave my 852 to a brother of a coworker to restore and never saw the tractor again. Just purchased a 520xi with 48” deck and single stage snow blower in good condition, 880 hours. Will pick it up Thursday as there is no rain in the forecast (Hoosiers will understand!). Semi retired Reliability Engineer so I over analyze everything. Looking forward to contributing and learning!

Well, I had a few parts hanging around cleaned up and primed so I thought I would brave the mosquitos and paint them using my paint spray gun. I have a little less blood but at least some parts got red.

At very least clean up the shaft and flywheel bore and apply Loctite bearing and sleeve retainer. give it a shot. You can't spoil a rotten egg!

Welcome! Yeah, that Engineer thing never leaves you, even after you retire.... This sums it up well I'm afraid...

Needed some bushes removed, have a 520 serviced and ready for sale, figured why not

Years ago there was a local Ford dealer called Plitt Ford. I was in the market for a new car for my wife so I went and spoke to a salesman. I asked him if I buy a Taurus from this dealership, does that mean my wife is going to have a Plitt Taurus? The guy just looked at me in disbelief and said he has been selling them for years and nobody ever asked him that? 😜😂

This weekend's progress. Got hitch built.

These are the only belts I use. About $30 at TSC and they can be returned for full refund.

I'm having a problem with the photo angle as well. The crankshaft should be tapered and the tail of the key rides above and locates the magnet ring to time the ignition. That magnet ring may be damaged with the failure. It appears that the crank has grooves worn in it and that may not grab the flywheel well. Any debris and high spots on the crank and in the flywheel needs to be removed and then the parts can be lapped together with fine lapping compound. The surfaces need to be completely clean and then only a wipe of rust proofing applied. The flywheel bolt torque is 55 ft. lbs. with a drop of oil on the threads and under the bolt head. What really is needed is replacement of the crankshaft and flywheel, using these parts might very well cause a failure in the future.

I keep this one around as a reminder: Completely embedded until I split it.

Good rainy day to get some much needed crab trap maintenance done while the 312H watches. Then finished the crabs we caught last week.

A bit more progress, hubs done, wheel adapters done and it bolted up in place. Looking good 😍

If reliability is your thing you have come to the right place. Wheel Horses are very reliable and we are here to help if a problem comes up.

@SylvanLakeWH nice! My buddy Matt showed up the other night for some euchre wearing his, and I had one of mine on!

Mrs Sylvan helped me put the door back on the deer blind and clear out brush from the shooting alleys in preparation for early doe September 12-13... door blew off in a windstorm over the winter. @Pullstart I wore my best t-shirt... Ready for the season!!!

Since the flywheel has obviously been spun on the crankshaft you should also take a good look inside the flywheel bore.

The best paint I've found is Rust-oleum Satin Black, you can't tell it from the Factory finish. This tractor has all OEM paint but the front black I had to redo because of several large scratches.

Some old pics i found of the “hay maker”. I don’t normally mow wet grass, but when it rains for days and the forecast doesn’t look any different…

That flywheel had definitely spun before and probably because someone put a little woodruff key in there. I don't see that as being the end of that shaft though. Just put the proper key in it and it will hold. I'm no Onan expert and barely know them but most every other engine uses a taper fit lock instead of relying solely on a key to hold them in place for a reason. That's a straight shaft fit so the long key is definitely required

Washed the furnace filter, did a couple loads of laundry, mowed the lawn with Morgan, after putting new anti scalp rollers on, picked up a pile of sticks & acorns my wife had raked up, carried a bunch of stuff out to the new A Liner camper, and pumped the accumulated rain water out of the pedal boat and washed it. Oh, walked the dog and took a short swim in the lake. Waiting for foil dinners to cook now.

Here is the key you need:

I installed new rear anti scalp rollers on my 42" SD deck. No bushings needed in the new rollers, as they have a 1/2" bore. Rounded edges on the rollers too - should cut down on the axial load on the snap rings that retain them. No, I didn't have my phone with me so no pictures. Y'all are just going to have to believe me!

and now we know the rest of the story!

I just did this a few weeks ago on my 161 thinking it might help when I installed the FEL. I used a 60 grit flapper wheel on an angle grinder to take the top off the axle. Washers and bearing were only 1/8" and it was surprisingly easy to take that off.

Likely just a spare as I have a dedicated mowing 520H (with a 16 Onan on it), my 520HC is the snow plow tractor, and another 520H is set up for the two stage blower. I have 10 tractors now with most of them restored (my wife thinks I'm crazy).

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I hit the wrong post. ment for MaineilyWheelHorse 23 Kohler Command.

As pictured, that is a rather poor placement for a crank handle.Itmust be very awkward to have to reach down by your left heel to turn that! Can the handle be elevated & angled upward? If the front end is straight, a couple of Heim joints spaced a few feet apart may work - providing there is no bind when the snowblower is raised and lowered...

You guys hunt in comfort. I just hang from a tree limb.

There may be something in the manuals

As usual I'm a day late & a dollar short but here's a couple...

Agreed. It looks to be using the PTO components from a Commando 800 or similar era tractor. Functional, but..... nothing else is there. No deck mounting brackets, no tach-a-matic. Maybe intended for a snowthrower setup??

Maybe not. There was a smaller drive pulley on the early PTO kits.

Someone probably replaced the ignition module but never properly torqued the flywheel bolt when they put it back together, which made the key shear. The long key is used to hold the trigger ring in time. Someone else on here had the same problem with a sheared flywheel key due to the PO not torquing the flywheel bolt properly. Does the flywheel bolt have the correct thick washer with it?

there’s an intermediate reduction at each end, I might do it all in chain!

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There fixed that too ...

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..

Tractor is mostly torn apart. Frame, engine and rear end have preliminary degreasing done. Don't mind the yellow wheels, they are just for moving the tractor around. Wagon load of parts. These are all cleaned up and ready for bead blasting and/or sanding.

Well, the piebald is a buck and a shooter.

Stocked the trout for the annual fishing derby for the ATOMIC KIDS. This is a private event sponsored by the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant for employees children. We put 1,000 12 to 20 inch trout in a 1/4 mile section of the North branch of Muddy Creek in Felton. VID_20260529_103818809~3.mp4 Fish catching pics tomorrow.

The Piebald is showing up pretty regular. Can't tell if it's a buck or doe yet.

I pulled the trail camera and found I have a Piebald in the area. Plenty of deer showing up every night and day. Just a couple of the 300+ pictures on the camera. See the piebald at the lower right corner. No horns yet, but I'm guessing this may be a pretty old dominate buck.

My C-120 puller... stock WH axle,,, spindles not so much... but I like this "look".