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Now driving and steering - a lot of trial and error!

September 2, 1945: Representatives from Japan signed the formal Japanese Surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, officially marking the end of World War II. This day is celebrated as V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day)

Wife: “Do you think our kids are spoiled?” Husband: “No, I think most kids smell that way.” Wife: “Our new neighbor always kisses his wife when he leaves for work. Why don’t you do that?” Husband: “How can I? I don’t even know her.”

Sitting here eating breakfast with my wife. I'm reading Red Square, she is digging through her news feed. She makes a comment about the 'stars' in the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars about how they look familiar but she can't place them until she reads about the TV rolls they played as teens. Says that those shows aren't that old. I reply with a comment on that new Beach Boys song, Kokomo. It's not that old - just almost 40 years. She happened to be taking a drink of coffee at that moment - almost blew coffee out of her nose.

And you know this because????

No pics but Dusty the B-80 went to it's new home in East Syracuse.

Advise when pulling the pump apart. 1 - The cylinder "#16 in the diagram" has a slight taper to it and has to slide in to be removed. 2 - If you need to remove the belt pulley, DO NOT tap on the shaft with a hammer. You WILL damage the pump gears. If you note these two things, a rebuild is pretty easy.

If you get stuck, I am in the same village as you. PM me if needed.

When a man opens the car door for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife is.

I wonder if the only ground for the coil is coming thru the headlight wiring.

I believe that's for a Pullstart engine. To the best of my knowledge.... That will NOT work for any Starter/Generator or gear drive starter engines. @squonk?

Lately I’ve been wondering how, or perhaps whether, some of the current conflicts will be observed in the future.

No big deal! Mennonites use that method around here for connecting equipment to 3 phase power!

Change it sooner than later. If it is one of the horse-shoe shaped springs and it broke the remaining piece will dig into the pump head with use, egging out the hole, gouging the surface, and ultimately making it unable to retain a new spring.

I'd leave it. Then race people with 16 hp engines and when you tie/beat them, you can point to the HP engine sticker and claim superiority of driving skills over HP...

That is a standard magneto used for ignition only. Can be used on any Kohler K series if you already have the correct flywheel and mount.

There are two kinds of springs used in the 1054 pumps. Open it up to see what spring you need prior to calling Lowell. https://wheelhorsepartsandmore.com/product-category/hydraulics/page/2/

Looking at my 416-H as the only point of reference available to me, the only wiring that would be in any way related to the hood and it's movement is the connector going to the lights. If the lights are disconnected and the harness on the tractor side is secured from movement, the hood must be hitting something that you are not seeing. Leaving the hood in the open position, I would begin by touching every wire or moveable part that could touch a wire until the engine quits. Something is either grounding or causing a break in a circuit that is critical to the running of the engine. It's not magic or voodoo, it's a mechanical disconnect. Try your testing at night in pitch black darkness and see if you can see a spark as the culprit raises it's ugly head. When working in the dark, just be careful of moving parts such as belts, fans, PTO's etc.

It is not a big deal to change. I believe Lowell has the Spring & gaskets...

It's a 5 minute walk from my house to the bar, but a 45 minute walk from the bar to my house. The difference is staggering.

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I believe mine says the same I'll have to look when I get to the house

drive to front still to do - deciding whether to spoil a suburban 400 - or use my suburban 551 - and swap the trans for an 8 speed before I do the drive. Which will be chain from the back to front...

I can tell you instantly that is for a magneto ignition system .. coil is the same as used on Tecumseh part number 30560A where the coil is a slip fit over the armature laminations that bolt up under flywheel .. wont replace points at all, its used WITH points and condenser - their use of "module" is misleading (they're "gaming" the search keywords) only real difference between the kohler version and tecumseh version is usually the length of the spark plug wire (and aftermarket ones, in some cases, are too short for Kohler applications without changing spark plug wire routing - they were actually replacements for Tecumseh, but sold as kohler replacement.)

Those Robin/Subaru engines were pretty good. Problem is, they were not real popular for some reason. This makes finding parts for them quite an adventure. It appears that you need part 2774220133. Every place I have checked comes up with NLA.

That has nothing to do with breakerless

Lol it was a pretty hacked up 300 series. Somebody put the never start battery in back and a tank where the battery was supposed to go. He asked me what the tractor was worth I told him 100 tops. His buddy had a 314 that was restoed and pretty sharp I shoulda got pics of that.

Yup! The correct spring did the trick! I think i am also used to the worn belt that was slipping, the as well as the worn strut. Now it feels like a true tractor not a lawn mower from lowes any more.

I love the TV commercial where a robot is defeated by a human then breaks the board. I don't remember the product so guess it isn't a very effective commercial.

The tie down is what makes it...!!! twice, cut once... Lucky 13!!!

IMHO - leave them as is. IF you ever come across a good running correct vintage 16 HP Kohler to swap in, it's one less thing to deal with.

Saw this at a show. Owner called it a battery quick disconnect

From the details page FD620D-AS17

That is some next level engine-nerding going on there sir! Curious to see how you will feed power to the front axle. I've toyed with the idea of building a 4wd but was looking at ready made differentials. Like I said, this is next level. Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark

Farmers earn a meager celery, come home beet and just want to read the pepper, turn-ip the covers, en-dive into bed!

Every married man should forget his mistakes, there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

Tomorrow, I'll see if I can get some pictures that show the massive scale of the event. Garden tractors are only a small segment. Acres and acres of swap meet vendors, antique tractors, hit and miss engines, food vendors, consignment barn...

Nothing special, but I moved a couple out to the barn until the house is done. It was nice to drive them around for a bit. You can see some of the debris pile behind the 523H. The contractor has removed over a dozen tandem dump truck loads so far.

Why did the cabbage win the race? Because it was ahead!

Needed to get the york rake hooked up to work on the stump removal project. It is the only implement I have not permanently attached to a tractor. Had to move a lot to get it out and hooked up to the GT-14... Part of me says I need another 3pt tractor

What does a man have that; is somewhat ridged, somewhat flexible, has the following letters in its spelling, S I N E P ? ? ? ? SPINE What did you think I was spelling?

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