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Refresh and a magnum.

I’ll join in. Heres mine bit rough and needs some work though. But definitely not as nice as @76c12091520h!

Is this engine not equipped with an axial thrust bearing to handle the thrust from a manual PTO. Seems the Manual would exert more thrust than tightening that bolt on the lectric PTO ? But, I guess we never start up with the manual PTO engaged. Might be interesting to bypass the PTO safety switch to see if one would start with it engaged. Still thinking about this. The engaged manual PTO exerts a true axial force at the center of the shaft which the thrust bearing can handle. Tightening the bolt shown exerts a bending force on the electric PTO bearings that may be causing enough friction in the PTO to make the engine difficult to start.

Regular rocket scientist today ther Sparky for figurin that one out .... That's alright I had to go look in my pics to see if I owned a 120 ... Looks like I got a C-121 for tomorrow too ...

120… I like what ya did there.. Beautiful machine!

I have a coworker who jokingly said sometimes, you just have to start the conversation with "look b**ch". So when I told my wife what he said, I slept by myself that night. Somehow, being a joke didn't matter... And I didn't even say it! Sometimes I'm sorta glad that the ladies aren't as physically strong as we are.

Can I have that 1045 in the back there?

Did it again this year, little early...it was 62 today.

I found the problem. Had this bolt to tight. It should actually be a Pin and cotter key. It was putting to much pressure on the crankshaft towards the flywheel side And actually turning engine over hard. Causing a voltage drop enough to Cause the intermittent spark.

Intermittent spark ??? Are you losing spark at high RPMs, when it gets warm, or all the time? Cutting out at high RPMs could be the condenser. Cutting out after a short period of time could be wrong coil - "with out an internal resistor". Battery voltage builds up above 13vdc and collapses the coil. Cutting out all the time could be dirty points or a bad plug. After you file or run sand paper through the points, you should follow up with paper or a dollar bill.

Technically it's not one, but since it's decaled as one.

Ronnie Ray Gunn

I miss Ronnie!

I miss those days...

My experience with rubber and steel chains on turf tires. SURFACE RUBBER STEEL TURFS w/o any chains bare pavement best poor good ice poor best poor mud good best poor snow on grass good best poor snow on gravel good best poor snow on dirt good best poor

The shift looks like it bolts in, but can't remember if you can pull it out with out taking side plate off. Might be able to slide down, maybe just loosen some bolts up front Here's so pic's

3 bucks out back this morning so the pictures were out a window and they were @ 75 yards off. 2 were sparing and the other one was always out of frame. I tried to crop the pictures so they are what they are

Unfortunately my services were required at work on Saturday so it was kind of an unproductive weekend for me. A big Thank You to @WHX?? for the nice steering wheel. It cleaned up very nicely. I also painted a few small items for the engine today. Fly wheel, governor arm pieces, & little trinkets & doo dad's. I did get side tracked with another project. I'm helping a friend set up his Simple-city with a Magnum 16 Kohler. This was a yank start engine that we converted to electric start. Fits perfectly in the frame. He carved out an adapter that bolts to the flywheel so that the drive shaft can be connected. A few little kinks to work out on this yet but it is coming along well.

2:35pm today. She was all good this morning. Wife texted me to come home early from work. Got to spend her last 1.5hrs with her.