D160 project/beater tractor

[Rollerman 290]

Picked this up about 3 weeks ago.

It's a 74 vintage with the Kohler K341 single.

Nice tight steering, trans pulls well & doesn't creep.....but!

The governor was not working.

I pulled the motor down & found the paddle on the governor shaft was faceing the wrong way.

(For those of you who have not been into a Kohler...thats the part that makes contact with the pushrod inside the gov gear to slow the engine if it over revs or speed it up if it's lugging)

I ordered up a gasket & ring set & proceeded to put things back together right.

Runs like a top now....well did before to, but it's not a screamer now.

Next I bought a 3 point from Jim M & found a box blade on Craigslist.

It actually up in the pics with 6 pounds of rear tire pressure.

I'll replace the top link with a longer one since it's adjusted out & also need to adjust up the lower arms some to level the box blade out & get a little more heigth.

I had an hour of daylight left when I got home from work....(weird!) so I went out front of the house & filled all the low spots in the gravel parking area...then to the utilities easement behind my garage to level off the dirt.

Had so much fun I didn't get off & shoot pics till after it was dark.

Next up....lights, cab, box blade rotater, heated stering wheel. (Duke just )

[jusjeepn 59]

Stephen, That is far from a beater. It looks to be in great shape and sounds like it will definitely earn it's keep! Nice find and fix!

[can whlvr 994]

nice setup,that will make easy work of leveling gravl.

[rickv1957 74]

The D-Series tractors are very good workers,open to several attachments with the 3pt and have a lot of pulling power compared to the smaller units!

[Don1977 605]

It looks better than a beater. I worked on you picture a little.

[Sparky-(Admin) 23,143]

Thats a beater Stephen ! Man I'd hate to see what catagory most of mine fall in .

Good lookin ride pal.

Mike.......

[bustedglass 1]

Looks good. Do you have any better pictures ?

[Rollerman 290]

Looks good. Do you have any better pictures ?

Thanks again for the comps.

You know today while I was digging stuff out for the Wapakoneta swap this weekend I thought about getting both the D160 "beater" & 18Auto out for some pics.

Ran short on time fixing a few things on my truck.

I will though soon enough & post some new ones.

[Suburban 550 28]

Nice tractor, Stephen. Too nice to be considered a beater. That should get the job done for ya. :notworthy:

[whfan74 2,071]

So where is the beater!?!?!?!? Is it sitting behind that D with the box blade on the back???

Looks as though you are going to have some fun with that one!

Hope you and Jim had a good trip to the show!