What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[lynnmor 8,755]

6 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

A#1 note here. I'm not a scientist. 

 

That said, to the best of my knowledge, no off the shelf chemical does anything to cancel the negative effects of ethanol on rubber. 

 

 

You've done exceedingly well. 

I've had first hand personal experience with at least a dozen machines that were affected by ethanol over the years. 

Dried up carb components. 

Fuel lines aged prematurely. 

Carbs and pumps leaking.  

 

We've seen ethanol destroy (someone else's supplied) cheap rubber fuel line in just one mowing season. 

 

Disgusting stuff and it has no place in an engine. Period.  

 

 

I agree that it had no place in gasoline, it is there to force people to buy it and in turn to buy the farm votes. I had issues years ago before ethanol resistant fuel system materials were available.  My thought is that many of the problems are brought on by the users allowing the fuel to be exposed to the atmosphere.  I was going to move to all ethanol free, but that isn’t going to happen at current inflated prices.

 

If folks think that they can buy 9 gallons of gasoline and a gallon of ethanol and then pour in a small amount of snake oil they can make that gallon of corn squeezins go away have at it.

[Handy Don 16,310]

Not “to” my WH but “for” it.

In the fall, I made a small cart to hold my 36” RD Gear mower deck for easier storage and movement during its off season. An unanticipated benefit was easy access for sharpening and cleaning and for re-greasing one of the gearboxes.

Now that I’ve got the mower back on the tractor, I decided to upgrade the cart so that it’ll hold the blade.

 

Here it is with the mower and now with the blade.

        

 

 

[sqrlgtr 2,632]

Mounted some Vredstien V61’s, added some liquid ballast and got um back on 520H.

[Chris689 192]

Back moving under its own power sooner than I anticipated. Need to have the AGS mounted next and swap the tri-ribs from the C120 over and remount the dozer blade.