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I dragged this machine home last summer and figured I might as well begin work on it. This is what I am starting with. It had no carb so I got a cheap china carb for it and it will start by jumping the solenoid as the wiring has issues. Hydro seems strong and engine runs quiet and as smooth as a single cylinder can.

July 22, 1959 Ed Wood's cult classic "Plan 9 from Outer Space," often called one of the worst films ever, premieres starring Gregory Walcott and Bela Lugosi.

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).

Snapped this cool picture today! 1445 Auto, Allis Chalmers WD45, and 57 Pontiac Star Chief I call it “Generational Wealth”

My neighbor buddy moved down to north Alabama a few years ago. He’s back in town and posted on FB that they were thinning some of their flower garden and stop in to say hi. 5 hours later, we finished up our quick visit for this time. It was great to see Greg and his abundantly giving family! I hope I made his mother and father proud, planting their prized flowers the way they showed me, and giving them hair cuts to keep the energy into growing roots this year! Oh, and there were some sweet rides there, they are a hot rodding family and their friends are too!

Well, I found out why the tractor needed the solenoid jumped to start it. The battery connection terminal on the ignition switch is corroded completely. Here is the old connector for the ignition switch. New connector installed. The other connectors are in decent shape and will easily clean up. Since the indicator board is completely corroded as well, I decided to simply eliminate it and all it's associated wiring in the harness. I also eliminated the seat switch and associated relays etc. The neutral switch is gone as well since I will be installing a self centering foot control. Here is the harness as pulled. Here is the harness cleaned up and simplified. Here is the harness ready to be installed. I hooked it up to a battery and plugged in a new ignition switch, low oil relay, PTO switch, and 2 new fuses and tested all functions. Everything works perfectly including grounding the magneto for shutdown (yes, I do have the correct magneto ignition switch).

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.

I grew up watching cheezy horror movies with my 3 siblings. It was always a fun time!

The lawn in our back yard has a lot of clover in it. The deer love the blossoms so I don't mow it until they have grazed on the sweet flowers.

Does this apply to yours?

just a side note don't overdo the grease on that cage bearing, it will bleed out onto you clutch plate and you will have another problem, slipping clutch plate.

love that impala!!! i'm with ebinmaine, what's up with that intake? the sad thing about vehicles today is everything looks the same to me. just plastic jelly beans going down the road. if you lined up 10 suv's, same color, no badges, could you tell the brand?

I have a lot of stuff, but there’s always a need around the farm!

Just reading the service bulletin and striking the shaft on the top will make it take grease. I suppose if you hit the shaft and the space internal to the tube gets a little play, the grease will flow around into the cavity. You are that far apart, I would remove the bearings and look at the grease hole in the spacer tube along with the grease in the cavity. With the way the grease is coming up around the shaft to the nut, for sure those bearing are not getting grease.

Ho ho. Do I detect a need for a water tanker trailer? Around here there are always CL listings for those caged water tanks you see at construction sites but I happen to know you might have access to some “non-heating” (i.e. failed QA) tanks.

Nope, just not shown in that pic.

@wallfish I love your drawings! They are always so straight to the point. I am sure I’m probably over engineering a small issue. I found out about wet patches for pools. They work under water, and don’t require draining. I’m pretty decent at snorkeling. Here in the next week or two I’ll let the water get low so the bottom is closer to the surface. I’ll try out the wet patch and see if our water level issue slows.

Can you see where the smoke is Joe. If a belt is burning it has to be slipping in the driving pulley(PTO) or the driven pulley(center deck).

You bring up an excellent point. LOZ makes the news for lots of weird things. It’s a hotspot of activity for the citizenry of MO where drinking, boating, and bad judgement collide. And there is a lot of haphazard DIY work going on. Dock shock incidents seem to happen with grizzly regularity there. Swimmers around docks are fine, then suddenly one (or more of them) perish while in the water. Many times, the victims aren’t even swimming around a dock that has power. It can be a neighbor’s dock or even one across the cove. What’s been found is that all it takes is for an electrical leak to enter the water somewhere in the vicinity. Water itself isn’t electrically conductive, the things ionized into it make it conductive. Heterogeneous concentrations of conductive agents mean that current isn’t conducted predictably between the leaking electrical source and its grounding point and instead can meander around finding the ever changing paths of least resistance on its way to ground. if a swimmer happens to get into one of those meandering paths, it is tragic. Several deaths have occurred when the victim approached or grabbed the ladder to climb back out of the water as the current had been using the ladder as its path back home. It is incredibly unpredictable where it might go. The poor conductivity of freshwater makes the current path for any leakages a wild animal. A properly functioning GFCI on every supply can reduce the tendency for these phantom electrical currents to claim victims, but their placement is critical and they need to be on every supply. In light of how tragic this has been in recent summers it’s a bad idea to swim around any docks that have power routed to them. Steve

Nice driving car, my mom had one in blue. The trunk was massive. And the car was so easy to fix. Nothing like we have now.

Once you start the engine about a half quart of oil will be pumped into the new filter.

There are tiger lilies in ditches and yards all over here. Except my place. I have always been fond of them, and hope someday they will migrate over. Our farmer is very proud of the way he manicures our road frontage. Having 2 miles of total perimeter, that makes about a mile of road frontage to mow. I wouldn’t mind if it grows up a bit but I see his allure. It does look nice when he trims it up. I was showing Tay last night where I put them. A rabbit was in close proximity checking out the place. I wonder how long they will last.

That Olds, the owner has had for 65 years. It’s got a 455 in it, and he used regularly drive it from Michigan to Kentucky, like monthly or more. He’s built it more than 3 times. It was a delivery sedan, and he’s had it back and forth numerous times, but he likes his seat laid back too much so he took the delivery parts out for good. He had 4.10:1 gears in it for the road trips for many years too, then went to a 2.70:1! He said that big block would sing to the tune of 3,000 rpm’s on the road. Now it has a Holley Dominator EFI setup. He’s widened the frame, built different suspensions, tubbed it 8”, and it gets about 14 mpgs. I don’t recall the transmission, I want to say 4L80E? Now the intake. Years back, WestTech Performance out in southern California was running scuba tank intake charges of sorts and they had these individual runners to streamline the airflow through the carb. This is all on my memory, so I think I’m close. He loved the way it looked, so he built that intake setup because he had the room to do it. It’s a 4 into 1 exhaust collector and has a conical splitter inside to help direct the airflow as well. Behind the grille that he built, you may see the intake pipe split and run to two large air breathers. He said that helped his MPGs greatly and he’s always liked the look.

on that Impala. My Uncle traded his 57 Belair in for a brand new 65 Impala SS with one of the very first 396 Big Blocks. They switched from the 348/409's mid year. Aqua in color. I loved riding in it watching the in dash vacuum gauge!

Been some years since this has been built . I want to say 13-14 years ago @VinsRJ started this build . Every-time I walk past it in my garage it always amazes me the details on this machine .

What did I do? Not much. Walked the dog, filled the truck with gas, and cleared a couple of small projects off of my bench. One of those small projects was assembling a Milwaukee cultivator head. Of course, I had to go out and try it. Wouldn't want to break sod or do the initial springtilling with it, but it works pretty well. Since I had that power head out, I swapped over to the string trimmer and did the lake shore.

Yes Sir !! Same wheels and tires I had on my 70 Chevelle SS 396 4 speed

This I will try if, I mean next time, I have to do another.

My go-to for these is a tiny dab of hot glue applied to the tip of the arm.

Try K & B Horse Parts @76c12091520h I Just placed 2 orders and 1 being 3 complete spindle assembly's for my 1991 48'' SD deck. Quality products for sure. You won't regret it.

I planted over a HUNDRED day lilies behind our house a few years ago. Turns out the deer find them very tasty. Haven't seen a bloom in a long time, tanks for reminding me how beautiful they are.

Do we know anything about this intake or engine?? Me Bear 🐻 likes Daylilies. 👍

I'll take that challenge!!

The valve I posted works with a cord from the valve to the float so there's no rigid connection to the valve. They can cannonball all they want and the cord will flex. Plus the float is filled with water to adjust the swing from fill to full so It doesn't just completely float on the surface. Waves and such wouldn't be an instant hard shock to the float and it will bob on the surface. If you set it up so the float hangs inside of a piece of 3" PVC pipe, it won't be affected by waves at all.

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What about the outer bearing on the PTO. They go bad quite often. Napa # PP204RR6

As you said, it brim full, but it probable has some air in it. Start it and run it around until it's warmed up, operate the hydraulic lift cylinder multiple times. Let it cool, then check and adjust the oil level to read correctly on the dipstick.

3 1/2 to 4 sounds about right. The system when complete empty with take closer to 5. The hydro pump, deck lift system remains filled when you drain. no need to lift front end, that is on manual transmissions. Fill and recheck the next day, as per the dip stick.

Thinking it is a 604 ,pull start Tecumseh 6hp...1964. Deck looks like it could be a 32"...maybe a 36". Tractor looks to be complete. No belt guard. Should clean up nice...put a Honda engine on it.

I started this food plot deer diary 7 years ago. The original blend of radish, turnip, clover and rape has been of the best. My field this year has blown up with clover, nearly 2’ tall patches all over. I had a pow wow with the farm store manager and we agreed there is no reason to add clover to the food plots. I am surprised though, the price of seeds has dropped at the same store over these years. Rape has increased from $1.60 to $2.00 per pound. Radish was $3.50, turnip $3.20. They are both $2.25 now. In fact, the sign said $2.25 but the receipt is at $2.00 for the turnips!

There's your answer... @WHX?? as your pool boy... all summer... in a speedo... oh... no...

My BIL has a fail safe system. Works every time. No electricity involved. Hose in pool. Turn on. Drink adult beverage of your choice. Turn off. Sometimes automatic stuff is way more desirable in a theoretical sense than reality...

I'm the 2nd owner. Original fellow bought it in his 60's and sold it when he could no longer drive. I went to local dealer and they printed out their repair and maintenance history of it. I've had to replace several of the small sensors and the like. Engine and transmission are original and other than the seals we replaced last winter haven't been messed with. It's a rust free truck and I do my best to keep it that way. I've owned it ten or twelve years.

Vin did some incredible work to build that tractor. I'm guessing, but that might be the tractor they found at the Zagray show. I remember Vin and Matt found an old cable steer at one of those shows. There used to be some very good finds and plenty of Wheel Horse stuff down there back then. Now, not so much. I found an early 58 with the round rear wheel hubs about 9-10 years ago. AMCrules ended up with that one.

I definitely use mine enough to justify having it around. Tillers, decks, motors, all the stuff I don't have any interest in manually carrying (most everything!). Bungee cords are a must to keep stuff from swinging out of control. Mine uses the attachment points and a section of an old frame and works pretty well.

The electrical section describes how to check the 3 amp charging system.

I don't know where the regulator is.

Unfortunately sold to someone else. Decided I really don’t need more projects at this time.

Same here. I live trap them, administer a dose of lead and return them to thier burrow. They are more than a nuisance. The burrows are a real danger to the horses and people. I spent seven days in the hospital with a shattered knee when I stepped in a hole while pheasant hunting.