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Well I am getting closer. Have to round up a couple more small nuts and bolts that I unfortunately don't have. Oh well, the end is in sight and it is almost time to fire it up and give it to my daughter. Here is where I am at. As soon as I get the rest of the stuff on the motor mounted, I will be sure to take a picture of that as well.

In my haste to give you a quick answer I gave you an inaccurate one and I figured I would correct myself before someone else does it for me. Yes. You should tighten up the collar. If you notice there is a small hole on the side. That is for using a drive punch to tighten the collar against the bearing. You should tighten it the direction it will be rotating when the blower is engaged. Sorry about that.

Scott, I am really wondering who is actually more excited about this build. Your daughter or you? I have to think that you are as equally excited as she is. Your going to have to take her down to the show at Mentone so we can see her put around. One more thing put me down on your list to be at your Meet & Greet barring any unforseen circumstances.

Those SS/12s are pretty good tractors. I have a friend that restores them as a hobby and I will admit they can push and pull real well. They are pretty good on fuel too. I will get one to add to the collection once I find a real good one.

I know just who your talking about been there Brian

Dont sell off the red ones to fast till you've spent some time messing with that teccy carb. All you ever hear are horror stories about em. You'll be glad you have the red ones with Kohlers (hopefully). Mike...............

Thanks guys.........you are right it has been a lot of fun. I haven't been able to give as much time to it as I would have liked lately. My little boy had his 3rd birthday today, so his party was this last weekend. My beautiful wife has her birthday on Thursday so we will be celebrating that. Throw in normal obstacles and work and you find out you have very little time to get things wrapped up on it. With it so close it is hard to stay away from it. @Martin...........the 500 Special hasn't been started as of yet. It is actually sitting in the enclosed trailer ready to be torn down. Once I get this one done I will try and hustle with dad to get the 701 so we can have it ready for a show we are going to the end of March. I don't think we will be able to complete it but who knows how things will play out for us. We will give it our best shot.

I bought one just the other day it's baby blue with a white hood that says sears super12 on the side. It only came with a snow plow but I hear these tractors can push snow also. I paid $195 and hope to get it running soon. I must say I will never sell my steed I love my horse's to much. Good luck with yours and don't sell your horse's!!!!! Wheel horse bill :USA:

Are you running it in full Afterburner? :)

Hey Cory some of those pictures look like they are from the delaware county fair grounds in Walton New York... My has a cabin in Downesville that has been in our family over 55 years, we go to the Delaware county fair every year!

This is the reason we are still into wheel horses after 27 years! Look at those proud to have this grins! This was taken in 1962 in gary, Indiana at my parents home. They still live there but this first wheel horse is gone (way too bad). It was our mower and snowplow for about five or six years. Dad kept adding to this tractor. Weight box in the front. Bigger motors, chains, etc. We did not find out until this past Thanskgiving that my dad bought this tractor at an auction in Merrillville, Indiana for about $250 or $300. Neither dad or mom could remember! But mom did remember that she had saved up that money for some time in the savings account to buy a clothes dryer. We had two younger sisters also - so a dryer was an important item in a house of six people. Mom said she never forgot that this whole Wheel Horse craze started with Dad taking her dryer money! So no much has changed in 47 years - we are still into the Wheel Horses ( 11 and still looking...) and we are still using savings money! However, I think the two dryers at my parents house are now fully understood!! :thumbs:

Hello everybody my story goes as follows.My dad in the late 70s brought home a rusted rotted wheelhorse suburban400 with no motor and a rotted hood and fuel tank. He and his brother david put on a 3hp briggs engine on it and my dad used that machine for 15 years plowing and hauling everything. I got the machine about 8 years ago and its been down hill sense then now i have a rj58,400,704 and c series and tons of parts and manuals. I have got y 9 yearold in on it and its lots of fun for the both of us.

I collect Wheel Horse tractors because they match my tattoo. Seriously though.... I moved up here to "our little corner" in 1990 and have used quite a few different brands and configurations of mowers and snow removal equipment over the years. I have yet to find another brand with the ease of implement attachment, and the interchangeability of the implements AND parts. When some parts from a 1963 model will still fit a 1993 model, and most every attachment made in 1973 will fit a tractor built 30 or more years later, that tells me that the design and engineering was good from the beginning, and didn't need to change. Nothing works like a Horse! :whistle:

I guess my story is a bit sentimental. Everytime I see a wheel horse....I can see my dad. My dad past away back in 1998. The first memories I have as a child is my dad and his 1963 Lawn Ranger (which I still have). I guess there are sights and smells that get "ingrained" in a child. My strongest memories are of the smell of fresh cut grass... And the smell of our garage and of the wheel horse itself (gas and oil). My dad used to put us on his lap and that is how we learned to steer. Then when we were old enough he let us "solo" and I can remember him walking along side the tractor as we drove it. My brother was not as attached to the tractor as I was. So I always got to mow the lawn with it. I got older and met the love of my life (my wife) and we bought a large plot of land. The grass was too tall to cut while riding forward...(the grass would just bend over under the deck and not get cut)...so I drove that little lawn ranger backwards over 4 1/2 acres. The acreage was too much for the little tecumseh and it gave out. I felt responsible so I ordered an 8 hp tecumseh and installed it for Dad. Finally got married..... Dad was there again. He gave me that 1963 Lawn Ranger as part of our wedding gift. I used it for a couple of seasons and bought a bigger tractor (a B-80). Then I designed and was building the home we live in. My dad was there mowing the lawn. I think he really enjoyed driving that larger frame tractor. And he came almost every day to help me with whatever I needed to build our house. So all my collecting is on behalf of the memory of my Dad... God rest his soul...... he was the best.