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found some info loosen nut tighten friction collar. anyone have any other insight on this. It was working and just stopped. Something possibly broken in friction collar? Thanks
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I just saw your truck thread. It looks like a very nice solid, straight truck---definitely worth getting back on the road again. The 300-inch six is an excellent mill. I've owned four F250s over the years (although none with that engine), plus several other pickups, and now I've 'downsized' to an F150. When it comes to axle work, I can't claim to be an expert, although I've overhauled a bunch of rear ends (I used to break them occasionally during my hot rod years in high school and college). I still have a case spreader lying around somewhere. Rear end work can be a bit fussy to deal with, so having a professional take care of it probably isn't a bad idea. I'll follow your thread to see how it goes.
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What is the width size that came on the 418s? To have 10.5" width tires are they same size as the 520?
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I called the shop you recommended. They seemed very friendly and knowledgeable, but they said it would be about eight weeks before they could get to it, so I took the engine block to Redline Performance in Hallowell, which happens to be a little closer. I'll give them a call tomorrow and see how it's coming along. I will probably have them bore the cylinders .010 over and turn the crank .010 under in order to clean up the rust spots. I'll have them check the crankshaft bores and see if it needs align boring. The cam and lifters look like new, and I think the valve guides should also still be within new specs. The engine only has about 8,000 miles on it, and if it weren't for the rust spots, it would all remain standard size. The exhaust valves looked 'fairly good' and the intake valves looked like new (but I'll still have them touch up the valve faces and seats). The engine came with hardened exhaust valve seat inserts from the factory back in 1954, and they look pretty good, so it shouldn't take much to clean those up, although I'm going to see how much they'd want to install new higher-tech inserts. I have lots of NOS parts...too many to mention...and I just obtained a complete set of NOS exhaust valves, still wrapped in cosmoline-soaked gauze (see below), which isn't very pretty, as they resemble a dog's chew toy (or something you might flush down the loo) but they've been well protected over the years.
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Questions about the value of... stuff
ineedanother replied to nyquil junkie's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
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I brought a well-used mowing deck, model # 78360, a three blade 48" .The Model # is the best I can read from the faded label, and it came off a 1993 314H. Put this deck on my 1989, 414-8. Problem is, I can't level the deck side to side, and the deck is visibly lower on the left side, (lift handle side). Checked the spindles, blades, tires, tire pressure, the front to aft decline of 1/8", 6" side wheels. Everything looks good. The fork from the deck carriage is properly seated in the attach o matic. With the deck in the mowing position, free floating and not being held up by the lift mechanism, and just by looking at the deck from the front of the tractor, the deck itself is visibly lower to the left side. I don't know how to correct this. Its off approximately 3/4" of an inch, measured from beneath the blade tips. My previous two decks, the 37" SD and the 42" RD decks had no issues in the side-to-side leveling. I gave both decks to my grandson, thus the 48". I hope the pictures help identify the problem and someone has a solution as I am stumped! Thanks for the help!
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And if you have a private well, test the water for radon too
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The control lever for going forward backwards goes to full speed forward. Used to stay in a position. I had some information looked up and lost it, Any help. 1970 or so Raider or Cherger 10 or 12 if i remember correctly. Thanks wheelhorse ranger.jfif
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Spent the day doing some more yard projects. Other half and I decided to sell the pool this year and buy a park pass and travel different state parks this summer. We also decided to turn the old pool location into a new flower garden. So spent the day digging out the sand and digging down the under layer of soil and ordered 6 yards of garden soil. They said it was going to be delivered by the end of the weekend. Awesome! Now I have the time to dig all that sand out. We'll I dug all the sand out and wouldnt you know I looked up and tue dumptruck was dumping my garden soil. So no rest for the wicked right to filling wheelbarrows and the new garden spot. Also built a walk way from my pad though the garden to the lawn. Turned out pretty nice.
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Looking for deck 314 h . I am by La Crosse WI, If someone has something reasonable I can drive pick up. Thanks
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Blade advice - Discontinued 115084
Confuzzled replied to Confuzzled's topic in Implements and Attachments
I have to say that this 8ten place impressed me. The shipping was free, they arrived today via UPS, when it said free shipping, I assumed through regular letter mail and they would come next week. Put them on the deck and they did a great job. Of course any new blade is better than an old dull one XD But they were a good weight, the paint was even, no bubbling or areas where the metal was showing through. I measured the height and the top of the bent part is 7/8" from the flat bottom. The old loft ones were over 1" in height but no point getting bent out of shape about that since there are no more. I hope they work well with the bagger, if the weather holds, maybe I'll try it this weekend. Thank you all for your help! -
The Waste to Energy power plant east of Syracuse, NY, was not well received by Niagara Mohawk Power. They claimed to would jeopardize their grid and insisted that it's substation have an automatic disconnect from the grid if there was a voltage fluctuation. During the 2003 Northeast Blackout I called my mother to see how she was doing without power. She was totally unaware of the blackout because her house was on the W2E grid and hadn't lost power. She hadn't watched the news yet and was a bit amused that the trash burner was probably the only power plant in the state that was on line. That little bright spot in central NY is Mom's house.
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Happy Birthday Hope you had a great day.
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Wrong spot
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metal fenders are a plus to me anyhow..
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Swapping early Sundstrand for later Sundstrand: Yes/No?
953 nut replied to BradKahler's topic in Transmissions and transaxles
The Eaton 700 is not as strong as the Sundstrand or Eaton 1100. If all you plan to do is mow a lawn and pull a small cart the 700 would be OK. Do you have any reliable history on either of these transaxles? The only hurdle you will have to cross when replacing a Sundstrand with any Eaton is the motion control linkage. If you have access to the Wheel Horse the 700 was removed from be sure to get the entire motion control linkage and lever along with the parking brake linkage. While this thread covers widening the axles for a GT-14 it does have a lot of good photos of what needs to be done. You do not need to open yours up because you are just bolting it to the frame and connecting linkages. -
Tractors are sold. Thanks for everybody's intrest. Jerry
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Swapping early Sundstrand for later Sundstrand: Yes/No?
JCM replied to BradKahler's topic in Transmissions and transaxles
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Questions about the value of... stuff
EB-80/8inPA replied to nyquil junkie's topic in Wheel Horse Tractors
Your thoughts on it having close to 1,300 hours? Haven’t those engines been getting hard to source parts for? -
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Please continue on this thread so you can have the benefit of several people's opinions.
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i have a set -- sent you direct message
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@Mglenn @Thor27 typically my responses are based on REPEDITIVE FAILURES . love to make a change for the better , come from another era , so i,ve seen / done a lot . also a rustproofing nut , all my decks have this , more detailing , pete
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I haven't posted much in a while, I have been busy working on spring stuff and a lot of vehicle work. Did get all three of my Wheelhorse's running I think it's the first time they have all been running together. This tractor is going to get a new build thread in the restorations, modifications, and customizations at some point, and it's going to be getting hydraulics. It will still be a little while before that happens, but its in the works.
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John @wallfish is the pro here. I did quite a few radon mitigations when I was in the home improvement business. Most homes with a sump pit are fairly easy to do yourself. However, there are some situations where you might want to get a pro involved. Where I live (Maryland) there is no requirement for licensing or permits, at lease when I did it. Because of that fact, a lot of unscrupulous characters like me were putting in radon reduction fans. Test results were always favorable afterwards because of the simplicity of it. Think of radon as steam in your bathroom. Steam you can see, radon you can't. But when you turn on the exhaust fan, it removes the steam. Same idea with radon, only you are removing the radon from under the basement floor or crawlspace, and you are running the "exhaust" fan constantly.
