tarcoleo 119 #1 Posted May 5, 2011 These are my "C" chassies with Honda power and easy-going seats. Hoping these two will produce a foal out there in the pasture. Tom in RI Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
racinfool40 202 #2 Posted May 5, 2011 :wh: Nice lookin group!!! Put me down for a foal!!! :thumbs: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shootinok 15 #3 Posted May 6, 2011 Like those seats where'd they come from? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr.pipes 4 #4 Posted May 6, 2011 What size "Hondas" are those? How have they treated you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tarcoleo 119 #5 Posted May 6, 2011 The Hondas are: 11 hp Japanese-made Honda, and 13 hp Chinese Honda (from Harbour Freight). The Japanese Honda has been going for 16 years without a peep. The Chinese unit is one full season old and hasn't peeped yet. The seats are vintage implement seats found at yard sales and flea markets. The springs are old JD's found on Ebay. And let me tell you the baby-buggy ride that results is really easy on the back and neck. Tom in RI 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunahead72 2,350 #6 Posted May 6, 2011 The seats are vintage implement seats found at yard sales and flea markets. The springs are old JD's found on Ebay. And let me tell you the baby-buggy ride that results is really easy on the back and neck. Tom, That's a real nice couple of Horses there, you may want to turn away if they start getting frisky out in the pasture, could get strange. Interesting seats, my back and neck asked me to reply -- do you have any close-up photos of how they're mounted? :thumbs: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tarcoleo 119 #7 Posted May 6, 2011 Ed- Phoenixville?!?! I lived in Chester Springs back in the Sixties (Conestoga Rd.) Rte 401. Bought a new WH 633 back then. Yours is a voice from the past. There's no great trick to mounting the implement seat on the WH. The spring I used has conveniently been made with two holes at each end of its U-shape. The implement seat usually has four holes centered on about a 4" circle in the middle of the seat. This allows one nut and bolt through both the seat and spring, and two more through the seat and through a backing strip that will hold the spring to the underside of the seat. "Seat springs" of this type are common on Ebay. Suitable "tractor seats" are also to be obtained there. Tom in RI Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunahead72 2,350 #8 Posted May 8, 2011 Tom, Small world, huh? You probably wouldn't recognize the area if you haven't been here in a while, but 401 is still one of my favorite "clear-out-the-cobwebs" motorcycle routes. Can I assume you bought your 633 from Eagle Machinery? They're still around, run by a different generation of the same family, and are now known as Frame's Power Equipment, I still get parts and good advice from them every now and then. I'm not quite picturing how your seats work, so I'll check out eBay later this evening. Partly I'm interested in anything that goes easy on my body while I work, partly I just think they look cool! :thumbs: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tarcoleo 119 #9 Posted May 8, 2011 Ed, at the time, I was working in Reading and purchased the 633 somewhere between work and Chester Springs, closer to Reading. Was long time ago and can't tell you where that was. I imagine "Main Line" suburbia extends now to Morgantown. Getting harder to find country living anymore. Tom in Little Compton, RI (still country) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dwayneGT 6 #10 Posted June 27, 2012 Here are a few pics of my 1142 with the 420cc clone. It's been a year and no problems so far, well with one exception... if you see in the pic's I have the pulse fuel pump installed and I quickly discovered these carbs don't like to be force-fed fuel!! It shot gas out of every seam in the carb. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
