What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[WHX?? 54,214]

12 hours ago, c-series don said:

belt had jumped off the pulley and was wedged between the transmission and the pulley.

 

Had this happen on a tractor & turned out PO had monkeyed around with the idler tension and wrong spring on. Too much belt flop. Check the spring for being proper.

7473 shows up as the belt for a 417 hydro and gear jammer. 

Guessing you have these but just in case ... 

Belts for Riding Mowers.pdfChart Belts Tractor drive.pdfBelts_Mower_spindle_and_drive_belt_charts.pdf

 

 

 

Gotta be a tough one in this kinda weather Don ... hats off 

Pierce rigs ... made right here in Appleton WI.  Been in their plant many times.  

 

Edited January 26 by WHX??

[Desko 643]

Made a make shift weight bar and used some old weights that were kicking around so I could get around with the 44” blower. Didn’t have a problem going anywhere but definitely had to watch backing up. Probably going to seek out some wheel weights this year though. 

[Easton Rich 847]

Here are the pictures of the new one if you haven't seen my wacko thread yet. I know some of you dont think its real yet, but I don't lie.

[c-series don 11,092]

Looks like it came with the super rare cutting board belt guard !! 😂👍🏻

[SylvanLakeWH 30,365]

14 minutes ago, c-series don said:

Looks like it came with the super rare cutting board belt guard !! 😂👍🏻

Turn it on it's side and you can gut and clean roadkill... at the speeds these tractors achieve, it's a common problem...

 

Edited January 26 by SylvanLakeWH

[Easton Rich 847]

Yes. I was very lucky to find it, it needs disinfected...

[WHX?? 54,214]

Ventilation for a belt guard ala @cleat with a Greenlee punch. 

Bit different pattern Cleat but should work.  Coulda had the spacing a little closer. Deburred with a step bit.

 

Speaking of step bits... @Pullstart was here... 

 

Edited Tuesday at 04:53 PM by WHX??

[Ed Kennell 44,465]

The 520H had been acting like it was starving for fuel during the tail end of the last storm clean up. I actually had to leave the warm cab and brave the cold to finish with the 312H.    I had installed an epump last fall and she had been running fine till now.   Time to find the problem before the next storm that is coming this Sat.

I pulled the line off near the carb and turned on the epump and got barely a dribble.  Nice thing about the epumps..you don't have to crank the engine to check for good fuel supply.

So, I went to the other end and pulled the line on the fuel tank petcock....not even a dribble. from the tank.   The petcock was clogged with dirt.  A good cleaning  of the petcock and flushing the tank and back together  and running like a happy ONAN should.

When installing this I like to coat it with vaseline then just start the valve in the grommet before pushing the grommet into the tank then push the valve barb into the grommet.

 

[Shed 376]

Has anybody ever looked into Guinness book of records to see if this is the longest running active form on one single topic? Today I was just looking through pictures of summer horses tired of snow and thought of this 

[Lane Ranger 11,741]

3 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

The 520H had been acting like it was starving for fuel during the tail end of the last storm clean up. I actually had to leave the warm cab and brave the cold to finish with the 312H.    I had installed an epump last fall and she had been running fine till now.   Time to find the problem before the next storm that is coming this Sat.

I pulled the line off near the carb and turned on the epump and got barely a dribble.  Nice thing about the epumps..you don't have to crank the engine to check for good fuel supply.

So, I went to the other end and pulled the line on the fuel tank petcock....not even a dribble. from the tank.   The petcock was clogged with dirt.  A good cleaning  of the petcock and flushing the tank and back together  and running like a happy ONAN should.

When installing this I like to coat it with vaseline then just start the valve in the grommet before pushing the grommet into the tank then push the valve barb into the grommet.

 

 

Ed:  Interestingly I have found that debris does settle on top of this valve on several of the TORO model Wheel Horse tractors we have.   Seems like gasoline, dirt, dust, leaves, etc sometimes collect in these rear tanks enough that they can block this spot.

 

 

Cleaning the tank of all gasoline probably a good idea every four or five years.

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 11:53 PM by Lane Ranger

[kpinnc 16,860]

1 hour ago, Lane Ranger said:

Seems like gasoline, dirt, dust, leaves, etc sometimes collect in these rear tanks enough that they can block this spot.

 

Especially true of tanks with a fuel level sender. They tend to drop rust...

 

[Bill D 2,559]

3 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

The 520H had been acting like it was starving for fuel during the tail end of the last storm clean up. I actually had to leave the warm cab and brave the cold to finish with the 312H.    I had installed an epump last fall and she had been running fine till now.   Time to find the problem before the next storm that is coming this Sat.

I pulled the line off near the carb and turned on the epump and got barely a dribble.  Nice thing about the epumps..you don't have to crank the engine to check for good fuel supply.

So, I went to the other end and pulled the line on the fuel tank petcock....not even a dribble. from the tank.   The petcock was clogged with dirt.  A good cleaning  of the petcock and flushing the tank and back together  and running like a happy ONAN should.

When installing this I like to coat it with vaseline then just start the valve in the grommet before pushing the grommet into the tank then push the valve barb into the grommet.

 

I always use the shut off valves with the built-in strainer screen.  Is that what you're using?

[WHX?? 54,214]

5 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

got barely a dribble. 

Work on a 520 Ed Dog entailed taking out the gas tank. Full tank so drain it into a gas can and barely dribbled out. Took a day to let it run out. Pulled the rusty gas cock to check & replace an aged grommet and found @Bill D 's plugged strainer. I have been known to take off the strainer Bill figuring the inline filter will do it's job. Maybe not a good idea but the replacement valves have no screen. 

[Ed Kennell 44,465]

4 hours ago, Bill D said:

I always use the shut off valves with the built-in strainer screen.  Is that what you're using?

Every valve I have pulled had a partially clogged and collapsed screen so I always remove the screens so any dirt can pass thru the valve to the inline filter that I can easily replace.   I have thought of replacing the valve and grommet with a 1/4"NPT bulkhead fitting that would have a much larger opening that would allow the dirt to exit the tank to the filter.   May have drill and tap the tank boss to accept the bulkhead fitting.    I have an inline filter near the tank and near the carb. with the epump in between the two filters.  The plastic tanks are not as bad as the metal tanks, but they still get dirt from the funnels and cans used during filling.

[peter lena 9,673]

@WHX??  like that  ,  do any wire rerouting  to enhance that  heat  flow  ,cooked connections  will probably show you the way  . looking right at it ?  notice the relation of the pto  outer  swing  mount  , clip  corner hole ?,  to lower frame mount  HITCH PIN CLIP ? similar hole , get a medium  pull  extension  spring , hook ends and connect the 2 related areas ?  no more pto  linkage  noise . buzzing  ! also lubricate the upper/ lower  pin clip rust areas , lets the spring  easily take over  buzzing noise , have that on my  3 horses for years . very easy to do , no more  pto  buzzing  , pete 

[Blue Chips 626]

Finally getting back to some work on my 522xi.

 

About a week or so ago I feathered, primed, and sanded all of the rusty and flaky spots on the fender, and then re-primed and re-sanded it. Here it is in progress:

 

 

I spent most of the past few days trying to learn the basics of Blender software (any Blender users here?), which has a considerable learning curve that makes my brain hurt a bit, so I needed to take a break today.

 

This afternoon I painted the underside of the fender. I'll let it cure for a few days before flipping it over and painting the top.

 

 

I hope to put it back together and get the snowblower installed in time for spring. 

 

 

 

[My_horse 78]

A couple of times this winter, my 314-8 had acted up. Long cranks before starting, leaning out while running and always intermittently.  The day after the last storm, I hopped on and went to clean up the driveway. It wouldn’t throttle up over half without surging. So I parked it a cleaned up the driveway with the bigger tractor. Jumped back on the 314-8 to put it away and it fired up and ran fine. No surging or anything. 
 

So I decided to pull the bowl off the carb on Thursday. Drained the bowl into a container and found this nice blob of water in there. 
 

 

Checked fuel pump operation with the bowl off, that was all good. 

Cleaned out the bowl and put it back together. Changed the fuel lines which were original from 1999, and put a new fuel filter in. All good now!

[kpinnc 16,860]

Drove around in the snow. It'll be gone by Wednesday, so I had to play a little. 

 

 

[Bill D 2,559]

1 hour ago, kpinnc said:

Drove around in the snow. It'll be gone by Wednesday, so I had to play a little. 

 

 

First time in snow?

[8ntruck 8,549]

More like what I did for my Wheel Horse today.  I took a drive to eastern Kansas to see @Easton Rich.  We exchanged some legal tender for a 48" deck.  Looked at some other things that are being offered, but none were jumping up and down hollering "you need me, you need me!".

 

Going to need to go through the deck before putting it back into service.  But, this deck is in better condition than the deck i got with Clyde, the C-195.  A straight, well used deck is less of a project than a twisted well used deck.  Between the two of them, I should be able to build a good one.

 

Was a nice drive.  Saw lots of hawks and a bald eagle along the way.  Pretty good wind out of the south west.  Gas mileage on the outbound trip was 16.8mpg.  Milage on the return trip was 21.2mpg.

[Easton Rich 847]

3 hours ago, kpinnc said:

Drove around in the snow. It'll be gone by Wednesday, so I had to play a little. 

 

 

Must have missed something. Gone by Thursday?

[kpinnc 16,860]

1 hour ago, Easton Rich said:

Must have missed something. Gone by Thursday?

 

Supposed to get above freezing and start raining.