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Day early but if I don't post it now I will forget to tomorrow. Added a Brinly hitch to Vince the 1257 and. Put the turning plow on.

August 26, 1959 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis; it is only 10 feet long yet seats four passengers.

The way she came into this world, it is a great example for us all, that we are what we make of ourselves not how we start. All things can be accomplished through love and Jesus. Bob

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...

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

A little off topic, but I started this thread anyway

Added some liquid ballast and installed some new front wheel bearings on “Vince” the 1257. Installed some thrust bearings on front spindles also. Did improve ease of steering.

PA Folks, let's get some horses at the Nittany Antique Machinery show this year! There is usually only a handful of horses there and they belong to me! This years feature is IH so show out and bring a different kind of red! Dry camping is available on site on a first come first served basis. See the link for more details. https://www.nittanyantique.org/

Smoke em if you got em.

Impressive. I'll take 2 of those please!

I've always wanted to show a before and after comparison with Penetrol. So I gave Dusty the B-80 the business. Before: After:

You know that if you drop a socket, it will roll to the exact geographic center of the vehicle you're working on. It's physics.

My 1/4 drive sockets have been on the below pictured cheap 💩 chrome rails for yyeeeaarrs. I've thought about getting actual big boy holders pretty much that whole time. Today I got these nifty blue magnetic holders. MUCH better. No more falling rolling sockets.

Picked up this Bass Pro brand meat grinder at the local Goodwill $14.99. Goodwill is usually hung on things like this, but this one has some rust where meat was left on it. Easy clean up. Bought a roast and hand some deer backstrap. We made 8 lbs of 50/50 chile meat to test it while it was still in the 8 day return window. I’ve previously used the meat grinder attachment on my wife’s Kitchen Aid mixer. Grinding 40+ lbs of venison a year may have been over doing it a little

We will be there Satuday, plaing on bring atleat one for the day!

RIP Dolly, you were more than a star…

What did the baby corn say to the mama corn? Where's popcorn?

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One question: Where's the 10 mm?

I started the remodel of our new ALiner Scout pop up camper today. Got to make sleeping quarters for the dog. The plan is to convert the cupboard under the sink into a crate for the dog. This will involve removing the sink, plumbing, and refrigerator, and rebuilding it into a dog crate. Basically, I will end up building a new front panel for the cupboard and give the inside of the cupboard a more complete finish. In all of the camping vehicles we have had over the years, we have never cooked inside any of them. We don't plan to start now. Demolition is done. Now we will start gathering materials to put it back together. Pictures to follow. Of course, this project produces another project. The refrigerator that came out of the ALiner is a 12 volt compressor type. We will reinstall that in our Coleman travel trailer in place of the 3 way refrigerator that is there. We have very unimpressed with the performance of that refrigerator. This will require cabinet work, propane piping work, and electrical work.

This company has permits to obtain water from a hydrant. It was 10,000 gallons of fresh never been peed in water. @SylvanLakeWH

A day late but anyway 2. 520H’s and the C160-8.

Show hasn't happened yet, how can i post pics? lol

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Have a Great Day Tom

The wiring is almost done

I need to do the same thing on my two stage. I don’t mind the manual crank to turn the chute, it works easy and fast. But I’d like to change the deflector from inside the cab! Seems like this might be a good time to post one of my favorite videos! My wife took it back in January. IMG_4058.mov

Or try to flip it for $5000 more than what they pay for it... "Super rare, professionally restored".

I use it and it stays tacky for a couple days but dries completely and seems to last. I've been tempted to wax over it to see what that does but haven't yet.

I did the hood of the B-80 a couple weeks ago just to see how it would go. Smeared it in evenly with a rag, let it set a while and rubbed off the excess. It’s not as shiny looking as yours looks in the pics, but made a huge improvement Now I gotta do a complete cleaning and treatment. It’s good stuff! No more dust catching oilings for me.

Got some VERY cool stuff today for the build. Two new crossmembers for the rear of the frame. Also one "restored" original that holds the center fuel tank. These are the correct 8 mm wires for an HEI distributor. Excellent brand. Red to match the distributor cap. They were on fleeeebay listed as a small block or big block Chevy V8 set. I knew immediately that was incorrect by counting the SIX wires and a coil wire GM never used. I also noticed that the wires were nearly half the length needed for a big block V8. Turns out that they measure out nicely for my own inline six. Likely they were for some sort of oddball aftermarket ignition setup with a separate coil. Price was great. The coil wire should fit a Wheelhorse too! This muffler is said to be USA 🇺🇸 made as well. Origin address was Elkhart IN. Stainless steel. Straight through design. Quality looks good. Inexpensive too. When I get the truck running I'll see what I think of the volume and tone. Might add another one right with it to deepen the tone. I'm particularly excited to have this carburetor. Holley model H4 - 4360. These were known as the Economaster. I'll include a Google description in the next post. These have a small intake capacity of 450 CFM. That's a little scant for a 427 or a 350 at higher RPM but it's excellent for a 300 cubic inch engine. They have mechanical secondaries. I like that quite a lot too. They do take a bit of getting used to in driving. Never just - floor it - unless you're already at a medium to high RPM. This carb is an NOS piece from the late 1970s. The parts are cast in Japan and assembled in the USA. This evening's bonus pic is our 7 year old chicken.

Here are links to your transmission's manuals, hope they will help.

I could put a few of them down on the floort where I'm working to make retrieval of dropped stuff much easier, do they come in a 12 pack?

While waiting on a rear axle and rear hub I've bend spending time trying to remove the hub on the other axle. So far the hub is winning the battle I started out with 3/8" plate and found the rear plate bent way to easy. I then switched to double 3/8" plates and still got flex in the rear plates. It wasn't until I looked at the pictures that I realized that I have the two rear plates swapped. The front plate needs to be behind the back plate. I'll switch them tomorrow and give it another try. I'm also considering adding tubes or three equal length pipes over each of the 3/8" all-thread rods. My thought is with the pipes, the back plates can't flex unless the front plates flex. I don't know if they will make any difference but it's a cheap test. On the front end I found that the right hand spindle was a homemade spindle and it wasn't made long enough and is also worn pretty badly. The left hand spindle is original but it also is showing a great deal of wear. It looks like I will be able to source a pair of either new reproduction spindles or they may be NOS, not sure which. I also found that the pivot pin for the axle is worn .005" on each end so I'm making a new pin. I checked the three axle bores (spindle and pivot) with new shafts and found that the axle has very little wear. Assuming the spindles show up, the front end should be in pretty good shape. Along with the replacement RH spindle I found that the center portion of the RH wheel has been repaired, unfortunately the repair did not leave the bearing tube straight or perpendicular to the rim. It makes me wonder what kind of accent occurred to destroy the left rear axle and hub and the right front spindle and wheel.

With new gold plated replacement tires that you smoked off the rims

Elegant work, gentlemen. Kudos.

You have a gift of turning junk into workable and functional parts. I wish I had half your talent.

No manual. It's simply a 2 wire connection. 12v DC. I used a DPDT momentary center off switch to flip the polarity for the in/out. It shuts off automatically when it reaches full extension or retraction. The switch is housed in a pvc box with a cord that plugs into a power port I installed. Switchbox is headed in place with a magnet. Flexibility. The blower will likely go on Dino. I much prefer the manual PTO vs electric.

I’m using an engine tach. The blue one on the top let side of the dash. It’s a little slow at times but it also counts the hours as well. I have not use a lazer tach at work yet to see the pulley speed or anything like that.

Update: so I corrected the mower deck and now it seems to have a blade height of 4.25in at slot 5. So I’m pleased. Slot ; is about 3.75 or so. I also removed the second set of blades and are just running the gator g6 blades as I felt with the x blade setup the rpm would only go to about 3200rom with the mow deck on and without the second set it will go to about 3460rpm. So clearly the engine was just about maxed out with spinning the dual set of blades and that’s even with it not driving the hydro. I do think there is a difference in power with this deck on my c160 hydro. Which I figured I would t notice due to one being an 8speed and the other a hydro. It’s interesting. well thank you all for reading about my latest project. It was fun sharing.

Today I got the exhaust cut & removed from just downstream of the catalytic converters. Those will be removed later. The muffler had an interesting surprise. Upon tilting it to remove it from the truck.. I heard rattling rolling noises. There was at least a dozen and a half acorns in the part of the muffler furthest from the open end. I was unaware that was possible given that this is a stock closed type muffler. Maybe it's in the design. Maybe it's got internal holes it wasn't built with. Doesn't matter because I never intended to leave it on. I also got the unused canister vent and air intake pieces removed from under the hood. Also detached the fuel tank side of the unused vent hose. That'll be rerouted and filtered somehow when the bed is built. When the PO assembled the truck, this intake manifold port was hose attached directly to an upper vacuum port of the carburetor. One vacuum source attached by hose to another vacuum source. It was also thoroughly gunkified with the orange sealant you can see. I have no idea what purpose that would serve. In other news. This is Seamus. He VERY rarely makes appearances while human people are in his barn. Today I lucked out and got a pic.

My own thoughts... keep it KOHLER powered. Adjust that one with a shorter belt maybe? Definitely insulate those S/G terminal ends from the gas tank spring. That's a serious problem.

This view smacked me in the face wheeling the creeper out from an oil change in the driveway. Not a horrible rear end view.

Just realizing I’m the last one who posted a picture, basically the same.