BrianX128 109 #1 Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) So I've already done this for the most part, but wasn't a member on here at the time. My grandfather had an old 14hp wheel horse that was the first mower I started using in life. After they had passed and I inherited the property and me and my fiance (now wife) decided we were going to move there permanently, I started going through the garage and restoring / getting running everything I could get my hands on. Lots of memories out in that garage. Anyways, I found a magnum 14 for sale on craigslist as the old K series 14 had totally self destructed whenever I was in highschool around 2007/2008 and had sat dead ever since (he got a zero turn mower after it broke and never got around to fixing it when he started getting worse health wise). Got it put back together.. Here was the first run on the tractor itself over at my parents house after dad and I put it back together. And once I got the deck back on and the "old" exhaust he had on the old engine. Back to being in the working crew.. Before I also got my wife's 417A I don't have an old picture of it with the old K series engine and the stickers still being on it, when the old engine blew up my pap had sanded it down and re-painted it but never put new stickers on it.. I think my wife got me those for christmas for it. That old engine had more hours on it than any small engine I know, he bought it new in 78 or 79, and it took him 4 hours to mow his entire yard with it. It for sure mowed until at least 2007, and he had to mow in the spring and early summer once every 5 days as the yard has natural springs and the grass grows like wildfire. In fall once every 10 days was his estimate once august rolled around. He figured out when it blew up that if those numbers were true and he mowed may-end of october he was using it about 108 hours a year plus snowblowing and tilling and random other small jobs with it so just say 110 hours a year. 28 ish years would be a little over 3000 hours, so it did it's time. You can tell he hated the deck and just made his own anti-scalp wheels for the deck. He loved to weld. I'm glad it's back in action, I mow 3/4 of my property with my big Case with a woods finish mower now, but there is still enough area to mow in that other 25% that the smaller riding mowers get an hour of mowing time finishing the smaller areas with more trees and stuff to turn around. My front yard alone is a bear to mow and my back yard is bigger just more stuff to mow around up there.. That stupid zero turn mower I try to avoid using at all costs unless I'm not able to use the Case, I just don't like it. Clumps up the grass worse than the woods finish mower, loves breaking belts, carb is junk but all the ebay carbs are junk, the hydro drags the engine on steep hills unless you go slow, I just don't care for it. Edited December 5, 2019 by BrianX128 1 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHX?? 51,732 #2 Posted December 5, 2019 Thanks for the stories and ! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 72,575 #3 Posted December 5, 2019 14 minutes ago, WHX24 said: Thanks for the stories and ! Glad to have you aboard Brian... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 66,690 #5 Posted December 6, 2019 Awesome story, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tom2p 2,394 #6 Posted December 6, 2019 11 hours ago, BrianX128 said: Got it put back together.. hey - how is the chrome heat shield attached to the muffler ? bolts or nuts welded to the muffler - then shield is attached ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrianX128 109 #7 Posted December 6, 2019 9 hours ago, tom2p said: hey - how is the chrome heat shield attached to the muffler ? bolts or nuts welded to the muffler - then shield is attached ? I honestly don't remember for sure as I took it off and swapped it with the stack but I still have it laying in the garage somewhere so I'll look the next time I'm out there. I want to say it has an extension that gets bolted down with the one mounting point and maybe the other side has a screw that goes into the muffler somewhere.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrianX128 109 #8 Posted December 6, 2019 11 hours ago, tom2p said: hey - how is the chrome heat shield attached to the muffler ? bolts or nuts welded to the muffler - then shield is attached ? I found this picture from when I was getting the motor going if that helps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrianX128 109 #9 Posted December 26, 2019 Got my vinyl stickers to finish it finally for christmas! 2 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
