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Picked it up this morning. Only 40min away. Needs some stuff to get going but everything is there, parts just in a couple boxes. Between this & the free Raider 12 I got in December I should be able to make a 1 decent tractor.

We have an Alexa home device and I asked it a question today about an RJ transmission that I was surprised 😱 it knew the answer! Quicker than looking in the manual or asking a question on Red Square! And it does look to me to be the correct answer!

I saw this post/ thread after looking for some parts i knew i had for 45 minutes this afternoon. I found them but realized i picked up the plastic bag of them three times without looking in the bag! I then went to my desk and wrote out a note to buy some containers to take multiple parts i categorized on a list of parts to take to the Portland, Indiana Tri- State Engine Swap meet in May and the Big Wheel Horse Show in May. You can have too much of a good thing!

OK, I'll take everything in that pic + anymore you got! LOL You're more than welcome to throw a pile of stuff out on our set up in front of the vendor barns and get it to the next guy that needs/wants it. We sell it but you keep the money. Put a fair price on stuff and it'll easily move, try to get top dollar for every little thing and you'll be bringing most of home. Jay will take any leftover stuff you don't want. I take stuff people leave around the grounds in our area too just so the WHCC doesn't get stuck cleaning it up. There's a couple other guys that do that too. I see a frame, hood, hood stand and a belt guard + which is enough to get started on a tractor build giveaway tractor. Those things should somewhat match so there's no cutting/welding. I can donate a running 8hp Kohler engine plus more.

During this years snow cleanup , my PTO on the loader 418C just self destructed. Put the bell into my lathe and cleaned out the debris a bit. The bearing shell finally released. Parts arrive from RockAuto. I did have a Koyo bearing to compair to the Timkin. Both appear to be quality items. Don’t forget to search the web for their rock auto 5% off coupon. Some parts cleanup and install the new Timken outer bearing and the SKF inner grease seal. Back in action. Comment Wecome

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@WHX?? @Achto any takers? In all seriousness, I think if there were a free area maybe a requirement would be all items are labeled with the owner’s name. Keep from piling up junk, take your stuff home if it doesn’t get gobbled up by the @wallfish birds circling. I found a GT14 tiller drive belt and some other belt for an attachment that @evanloock had been looking for for quite some time. It was N.O.S. Wheel Horse and I just happened to be at the right place, right time, to pass it on.

All you guys with stuff All you guys should bring that stuff to the show if you're going. Let's build a tractor or 2 out of it and GIVE it away to a kid. Maybe do a free raffle for kids under 15 ish ?? and the prize is the tractor we build? I can bring stuff too and do most of the work and buy anything if need be. Plus there's always people that like to help so maybe we do a Red Square project. @Pullstart and I haven't came up with a show project yet so... ?? Mayne we can start a part donation thread to do it? Just spit balling some ideas Who's got the the roller to start with?

I’m kind of in the same boat. After over 40 years of owning Wheel Horses I have amassed quite a bit of parts. Some of the stuff I look at and have no idea where it came from. That’s why I am thinking about not bringing any tractors to show, but instead just bringing the items that I already have two or three of and stuff I’ll just never use. Last year I posted about perhaps having a “Free” area at the show. Some of the things I have I would gladly give away, especially if it were a young kid getting into the hobby or just getting their first tractor going. I just didn’t want the free area to become a junk drop off site that someone would have to clean up. Obviously by mid day Saturday someone would have to clean up regardless, but maybe they would take it for scrap? Personally I don’t want to sit at a table the whole time at the show when I can be out buying more stuff that I don’t necessarily need 😂

When I read all of these horror stories I think of my Napa days. I had a good customer order a head gasket for a inline 6 Buda industrial engine. So you cam imagine this gasket is about 2 feet long and is layered steel. I found the only one available in the Napa system at a distribution center I think in Indiana. So it came UPS. When it arrived at the store the UPS driver said I have something for you but I don't think you want it. He shows me a wadded up ball of steel and has the damage claim paperwork already filled out. I hung that gasket on our "Wall of Shame"

It's true. The mice 🐁 have been very...... helpful .....

Could be the case of too good a quality bearing. I use a $4.00 PP204RR6 Napa bearing. When it fails it usually starts to smoke or stink or both. I keep a spare PTO bell on the shelf and swap it out and keep going. Then I fix the bad one as the spare. This keeps damage to a minimum. I think I have changed 2 bearings in 15 years.

Before I want back to work part time, I spent a couple of days in the shed going thru everything and writing it down. Put it all in a folder. I did this so if I see a wanted add, I can look in the book and say "I should have that, let me double check." I 've sold maybe 20 items since thru here or FB. I'm pretty sure I'm going to retire again fully within the year. Then I'll have to do the same with tools! Lots of duplication.

My heavy front axle is from another brand (JD ) machine, and the 1 inch steering knuckles are too short for the trailer hub mod. So I am gonna try to modify them. They have a 3/8 tapped retainer hole drilled instead of using a castle nut like the 520. I'm gonna try and weld on some length using a 1 inch spacer drilled for 3/8 and make a different retainer. I'll grind out a deep "V" and weld it back up. We'll see how it goes...

Hhhmmm... that sounds like a Colossal problem... what to do... what to do...

Build customs out of them. Those parts are easier to move around once they're on wheels!

Load them all on a trailer and bring them south in June to the Big Wheel Horse show. Put out on tables and mark them $1.00, $5.00 etc. You will probably drive home empty.

I think also referred to as the ole TT-32, Toenail Trimmer-32” @Pullstart Kevin may find this useful with flip-flops on ?

Well ok! 1963… That makes sense. I bet it came with this one that I bought many years ago.

It is a 1963 serial number

I have a 36" version of that deck. Love the cut but I like the height adjustment capability of my 32"

I've amassed a substantial parts collection. Probably enough to build another tractor. Unfortunately many of the parts are the ones that don't break much. I hate scrapping stuff, but I can't save it all. Thoughts? I had an ad up, but little interest and shipping is time consuming and expensive. Definitely need to clean out this year.

Maybe someone should approach the horse trading area honcho about this idea? Only thing is maybe tick off the guys that are trying to sell parts?

Didn't wheels come out in '61 so maybe for a 701? I got a couple like it but buried under snow now. Getting a heck of a storm.

Yup - removable per the manual for thick, wet grass. You were supposed to invert them, bolting them sticking up to act as a guard to keep your tootsies intact.

I’m thinking RM-323 (1962-3?) There were covers for the ends that are not present that kept the ends of the blades, which otherwise extend past the shell, enclosed

Said that about a tractor once ... missus threw me out ended up with a horse in bed ...

Fun fact about that iconic line. The script read "Leave the gun". "take the conoli " was add lib. It fit the character so well that it made the cut.

Worst part about this is there is a 308-8 and 518H nearby that could be rescued cheap. No more room, little time and no need for anymore tractors. Not a huge fan of those models anyways.

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"

"Leave the gun, take the Canoli..."

. Just now

You are always thinking John.

NAG, NAG, NAG! Just for that, you only get the quick & dirty picture. The deal officially closes at the end of the month. I get the MF, the trailer in the foreground, and everything on it except the tiller.

That has been my thought Jim, membership on this site should be the only prerequisite for taking what you want or need IMO. I can't make it to the show because of annual travel conflicts but someday that will likely change. Cleanup would be an issue though, inevitably.

As crazy as that price is, the S&P 500 roughly paralleled it over those same years.

The last I heard the resident mice were checking things out for EB. So yes there is some progress happening.

That bearing shell race was frozen solid in place. The lathe and a carbide tool and a few red hot shower curls and it released. You can see the curl nest in the pic above. I flushed the inner bearing with allot of brake clean and air nozzle to clean it out. The PTO pin itself pressed inward and was rubbing again the outer edge of the nose on the bell when it failed.

You wouldn't have a NOS Leather seat for a 420- LSE tucked away in that big garage of yours by chance ? I'll start the bid at 1200. Mine is not bad, just saying. @c-series don

Same thing here. I got quite a bit. Probably will start hoeing out and just keeping what I really need to keep what tractors I have running. Toss the rest in the truck and have a fire sale at the BS

Take all the second rate parts and slap together a non-functional piece of yard art?? I have two rollers that will be done that way & sold.

I have every single piece for that deck in stock

The CBR-327 chain drive 32 inch front cutter / sickle bar that was made for the 701 Wheel Horse used the front bar with the three race pulley and grease zert as the front pto for the cutter bar set up. So the 60 /61 time period had to be when Wheel Horse came up with that design on the 32/36 mower decks.

That is a very earlt 32" RM deck - about 1962 or so. Not complete - missing the tripple pulley and the side covers. Looks to be solid. One quirk with those - the trunnions are used to tension the caprured double belts and allows you to compensate for the side load of the PTO belt. One minus - manual height adjustment - unscrew the axle screw, move it to another hole. This is what I refer to as a "Suitcase" deck. I have a complete one, used it once - did not like the finish cut.

Since you did brushes and such likely failure is the Charging Field coil.

I've processed the same thoughts a few times. We already have several project tractors ahead of us. And... We have enough spare parts to build at least 3 more tractors. We won't need to clear out this coming year but this assortment will need redistribution sometime.

I had a mini competition last year with @Andy N. to see who could run out of fuel the fastest at @WHX?? plow day. His 2 cylinder aircraft fuel sipper and my 16 horse one lunger with a tiny tank were very close competition. Today, I believe I increased my capacity. I might need some longer head bolts and some spacers to get the bottom a bit higher for better gravity feed to the carb.