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Well I had to dig a part of a auto 18 wheel horse tractor I thought it would be a cool picture take of the boneyard. hint this would be a great candidate pocture for next year's 2015 calendar. Thats about 2 feet of snow out there....Cant wait for spring

Aluminum foil to clean them and wax to keep them. Do a youtube search for using foil to clean chrome. I was surprised how well it works and it works without leaving scratch marks. here's one video but I just use water. Haven't tried the Coke or Vinegar yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkHyARsjNEg I use this method for cleaning chrome handles on old O&R tools

Thanks for everyone's help so much. Ive learned a lot with this project. I didn't know anything going in to it! I still don't know much but you gotta start somewhere I guess. I wanted to post a few pics of her this morning. (Steve, I finished up at 130 your time so I took the liberty of NOT calling you ) found out that the break drum shaft and the dang fuel pump mounting gasket have a little leak today. I might never be totally done:( but here it is with dirt and grease all over it :)

Ok... Since everyone is getting a little tired of the white stuff ALREADY... Here is a little something to help keep the thoughts on spring time... Here is the idea. Post your To -Do list, now, then follow up with photos once the To - Do list is completed.... I'll start it.... Here we go: Remove wheel weights/touch up any bare spots Remove chains, spray them down for storage Remove Cab Remove Snow Blower - prep for storage. paint any bare spots, put new scraper blade on, straighten any dings on the auger, replace belt if needed. Tighten all loose nuts, bolts, retainers, ect. :tools-wrench: Change engine oil.. BTW, I've put 54hrs. on the tractor since the blower went on. 4hrs. over my oil change period. Change Hydro oil.... < Question for this. I wanted to switch to Synthetic, but am unsure of the "flushing" quality of the hydraulic cylinder.... If it is not fully flushed, would it cause issues down the road? Grease all zerts Give the GT a nice bath, do a nice mild wet sand on the paint, prep paint with Autopia auto detail products..... < Great stuff. Remove headlights, clean inside the lens, put a seal around the lens to keep water tight. That should keep me busy for a couple weekends and let's not forget, photo's to follow...

What Craig said Chas said. :thumbs:

What Chas said.

Here's my list with Pics... SHOW

Nether do we !!!

Great pic for sure, but I do hate to see any Wheel Horse sittting outside. Even if they are in a Junkyard.

I just wanted to say after being on here for a few years and seeing how the European buddies we have on Red Square have grown their participation, great contributions and innovative interaction on the website, we sure can learn a lot from you folks in the Wheel Horse department! I find myself "peeking" into the Europe forum more and more! A big thank you for all you do on Red Square.

Well I stopped in at the local TSC (only a 1/2 mile away) and found this pedal tractor on clearance. It looked nice, but I new Terry could make it look great! This will be given to my son on February 21st for his birthday. He is going to LOVE it! Here is what it looked like when I bought it....... And after with a little of Terry's magic....... I can't thank him enough for his willingness to help make this present even more special.

You'll get very little gain in horsepower by reboring those standard sizes. You'll gain a fraction of cubic capacity , but you'll lose a fraction of compression ratio. Where you will notice a horsepower increase is regaining a good seal in the bore with good rings and tight clearance on the piston. This actually isn't gaining horsepower, its reclaiming horsepower that went away as the engine wore out.

Pretty safe to say you wont be going Green-n-Yellow eh? Mike..........

To Do list: •put mower on 455 John Deere (necessary evil can't beat 60 in mower on 3 acres) •put mower on wheel horse D-160 (smaller jobs 48" deck) remove snow blade •take snow blower of work horse •restore work horse •finish onan for the work horse •get back in the grove of farming •change oil in all equipment and re grease periodically •finish restoration late fall That's about it besides mowing.

I'm the guy with the carbs .Give me a pm Chuck

From what it sounds like to me he may have taken and welded up the bevel gear differential (i assume that's what you meant Steve?) so that it would have more traction. It looks like there is a bracket out on the front of it that he may have loaded up with weight to counter that. Im not real familiar with these but just a thought. If that's the case then you might be looking for a new differential. I hope it is not the case though!

Any chance you have drained the transmission yet? From your location I'm betting it is not full of water and frozen, but you may have rust holding the bevel gears in the differential case. Doesn't take much rust to make a mess. Never been inside of one but it does look fairly simple. About all you would be out in splitting it is your time and making a gasket for reassembly. The idea of putting diesel in it may free it up. Doubt it would take more than a couple quarts. Does look like you may also have an axle seal leaking and the diesel will more than likely run out there. Easy there Frank. The pearless in these are cast iron.

Looking through old photo albums this morning and found these. In 1982, I picked this up from a local farmer who just wanted it out of his shed. I got it free, mice and all. This might of been the first time my wife just shook her head when she saw what I drug home, something she's done several times since then. lol The cub was the first garden tractor that I had. Didn't need an engine hoist for this, after the engine was put together we just picked it up and put it in. The water pump drives off of the back of the generator. Regal Red If I remember correctly, the wheel track on this was about 4 feet wide. I remember sitting behind the steering wheel and sticking my hand out the passenger door window.

After I pick it up I will attach more photos. I don't believe there is a hold back valve. Maybe? We'll see.

Cool Mike!!! I was actually thinking about that (visiting you and Marvin) last night when I was posting to Roscoe and Scott. It would be a real treat to do a road trip like this. Now I have something to smile about at work today

Auto parts store 1156 bulb, even Walmart in the auto section, be sure the hood is grounded to the frame good through the hinge, in the winter if plowing or blowing they may get ice or rust built up and not ground right.

Please get them in a barn it makes me sad to see this

neat looking pic!

no wonder the parts are drying up you got them all.......................LOL!

I have no clue how wide your tires are on the D but my 29x9.50-15 R-4s will dig to the frame if I allow them, and it pushes my 60 inch blade and a full head of snow or modified like nothing. I have 60 pound factory weights on each back wheel and the fronts have factory 35 pounders. While it wont do wheelies like you're doing with you C series, I wouldn't expect it to, weighing over 1200 pounds as it sits. I would never want a C-195…nice to look at but my brother had 2 runners and 1 for parts…nothing it uses matches anything else Wheel Horse had, it was only made 2 years, the 60 inch deck was an Ariens and has no spare parts around, tiller from a D will fit and I think a 60 inch snow blade will fit to but now sure if theres many implements from a C that fit. Tim, your original question was how is a D better than a C….its all conjecture and personal opinion. Especially when the 2 machines were intended for 2 entirely different types of use….You say the D sucks to plow snow..I say from my experience mine will out-plow and out-pull anything Wheel Horse ever made….2 years ago I moved 150 tons of modified with the 18 auto to build a new driveway at my old house…My C 160 or 416 could have done it but not nearly as fast or as much of a load at a time...

After the thaw, those Stallions might run away. Or at least set out in the sun for a few days! The Horses are prayin' for a barn for Christmas this year! Hello Santa!

Junkyard???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been going to for more years than I care to remember but I've never exhibited there. It's a five day show so as an exhibitor you can count on it taking a week of your time. They do expect exhibitors to be there for the whole show. I'd quite like to do it sometime but it's the time committment that tends to get in the way together with the number of beer tokens I'd get through. Andy

Awesome pic! Looks like they are all lined waiting for a chance to shove some snow around. Mike............

Quite a few of the gang here have been, but I don't think to show... But might be wrong :)

Good luck making the show... bring us back some picts.

Hey Lane....I know those guys!

Nice... looks like it would've made the perfect little RJ hauler Denny.

Did you have anything else apart? Did you happen to try to move (drive) the tractor in low range before you removed the transaxle? If you haven't already been there, I'm thinking you should check the internal splines of the high/low sliding gear and the corresponding outside splines on the input shaft. I'd hate to see you have to tear it apart again.

I've always been a woodworker at heart. Even though I could be working on one of my Wheel Horses, I got the notion to build something from wood. I have to back up a little to set up the background on this story. About 4 years ago, my wife and I were at a yard sale. We saw this really cool heavy-duty tricycle and wagon for sale.It is called a Yerf-Dog. We decided to buy it. My oldest grandson showed no interest in it at the time, but when my second oldest grandson was old enough to ride, you could not keep him off of it. Here is a picture of the tricycle and wagon from the original sales brochure (mine is in the shed for the winter, so no pictures). Well, the second grandson and his parents found a knock-off of the Yerf-Dog tricycle at a sale this summer, but no wagon. So for his 5th birthday last week, I built him a wagon. As you can see, it is painted Wheel Horse red of course. The body is made from hardwood plywood and maple. Side rails are from poplar, and the pneumatic tires are Harbor Freight specials. This picture is before the side rails were painted. This is the finished product. Now if you are wondering about the "Zirb-Dog" decal, my grandson's last name is Zirbel. When he got his tricycle, instead of calling it a Yerf-Dog, he called it his Zirb-Dog. So a great big thanks goes out to Terry the Vinylguy for making me these great decals. I just got them yesterday, and put them on the wagon today. So, what do you think?

If it is like the one in the pic I sent, there are no set screws. How are you holding the clutch to keep it from spinning when you apply the impact wrench? Your only alternative is to remove the 5/8 bolt and saok the inside cavity with PB Blaster or some other penetrant. Just keep trying... swearing isn't allowed.

Nice job Bob... I imagine these trailers would look awesome at a tractor show being towed behind a little RJ too.

All three proudly displayed in my "in the house" man cave,,,the first edition signed by Cecil,his wife, & Mike,,,second signed by Cecil & Mike,,,,final signed by Mike.

There are several types of seeder planters used with different tractors over the yrs. some of them were even built by the tractor makers, but mostly they used either one built by Danville Manufacturing or something built by Planet jr. The Danville seeders are the ones mostly commonly referred to as a David Bradley. Although they were sold by that company, they remained one of the many things out sourced by Sears. These unit have showed up on at a dozen different models of tractor, and are all basically the same except the hitching parts. They use a seed disc that revolves on a shaft powered by a chain to its rear wheel. You normally got 8 different plates and the seeding chart was glued inside the lid, so you could set the rate, via sprockets on the drive wheel and main shaft. There was also a row marker mounted on the top, that swung left or right to help you get the row spacing's better. This type of seeder will singulate the seed as to however many inches you have the drives set for. It works really well for pop and sweet corn, but not so good for peas and beans, and without a brush attachment that usually missing wont do small seed very well. The other common thing to find with a GT is one of the many Planet jr models. The 300, 300A and the 25 are the most normally found ones, again with the proper hitching require by the maker of the tractor. The Jr differs from the Danville, by being either a drill unit or a hill drop one. This means you will have a solid row of plants that you will have to thin out later, or that it will drop several seeds, then skip a distance and repeat that pattern. Only the #4 or 25 have the hill drop parts, the 300 and 300A are much bigger units and are drill only. This makes the 300 serial poor for planting corn product, but perfect for planting any thing like peas, beans, or plants that need a continuous row. It works by having a flat metal plate, with different sized holes in it. You simply align the proper sized hole up and a small auger or brush, pushes seed across it, and out the bottom. I use the 300A all the time in my garden for peas and any bean seeds, and the stands are perfect most of the time. Both of these come in several types of hitching, so you can push one or mount it on the tractor. They also are not fond of trash, ei weeds, trash, rocks, etc. You need to have fairly well worked ground to get a good stand. I collect seeding machines, have a couple dozen different units that I test in the garden each yr. Some work better on some seeds and others not at all.

Well I went in 2010 and walked it, 2011 I took my golf cart, missed it last year after my dad passed away but now I am back. We will walk it this year because I dont have anything to ride on yet. I will try and get some pictures of some Wheelhorses and the contraptions that run around there. Next year I hope to have two ready to ride.

I really enjoy following this page and seeing all the differant wheel horse tractors people use. I had the 416-8 out couple days ago cleaning up. got to luv that snow thrower. A fwiw re my 1990 jeep wrangler with my snoway plow. we had that dam ice storm roll through so when I got up today getting the kids off to school, branches down all over the yard. one really bbranch broke off maybe a 90 ft. high locust tree, caught the right frnt fender. looks like I hit it with a sledge hammer with all I had. So much for original condition. At least no one was hurt. Just part of a winter story. Keep up the pictures and comments fellas, its really great. Glenn

Update: So i saw a thread on here somewhere about soaking parts in apple cider vinegar to make the paint removal process go easier and it worked surprisingly well. You can see where half of the foot rest was out of the vinegar and the other half was in. I think it worked well. Worked well on the other two parts as well. The Kohler ended up being kind of a greaseball so i'm going to spray it with engine degreaser and pressure wash it on a warm day......warm as in above freezing lol! Pulled the flywheel and cleaned it up and sprayed the back with a high heat paint and primed the front. I got quite a few parts cleaned up today and primed with a can. When the weather warms up I will prime them with the gun. The bracket on the bottom of the fender where the seat latch goes across was broken, but that seems to be a common problem. I have some spare parts fenders that i've just saved for the sheet metal so i cut a corner off the bracket of one set of parts fenders and tomorrow i'm going to weld it in place. I'm also going to use an extra piece to weld on top to reinforce it a little bit. It;s going well so far!

Heres part 2 of the snow team…my 1973 18 Automatic with a 60 inch blade... Its at my Dads right now because we just finished fabbing the the plow linkage and installed the factory front wheel weights but I plowed 7 inches with it yesterday and it was like it didnt even know it as there. I wish I could have gotten it to the farm here with 14 inches of snow coming,[attachment but the Charger 12 will have to clear the half mille driveway

I put eyelet screws into the bottom of my wood ramps and than attach tie down straps to the trailer hitch safety chain holes. This keeps the ramps secure.

Sadly it has all become about just making money and politics along with the so called "global economy". In a country where basically most of what we use everyday was invented none of it is made here. All for sake of making more money. And really awsome that our government little by little allowed this to happen right? There is something wrong with a system that allows major companies to donate vasts amounts of money to campaign funds and a where most politicians are millionares. Fortunately some of it is turning around. Hopefully the fact that somethings are now assembled here is a realization of the damage done and it will continue. I definitely will buy what is assembled here over what is not. A little off topic but related since i read some complaints that some things made here are not so good. The way our children are now brought up and educated specially in the major urban areas of the country.We are now from a very young age always pushing college education on them and at the same time succumbing to the "ways of modern child raising". I am not against college education since I am also "college educated" to some extent, but we are now bringing up childern who will be totally unprepared for real life. When I went to high school we had two wood shops, a metal shop, an auto shop with whole working engines in it, a welding shop, mechanical drawing (drafting) and home economics. We were exposed to all of these things and although some were of more interest than others we learned a lot about every thing. It encouraged us to do more on our own , be creative,and most case choose one for our future career. We learned how to work with our hands, enjoy it and at minimum undestand how things work. Do our children have those qualities like that now? Who is going to be making or assembling anything in the future with quality or care? What I just said above is a major part of what sealed my love for wheel horses and their story. A father and sons doing things TOGETHER, learning, being creative , and enjoying the fruits of their labor, leaving something for future generations to admire and enjoy. Teach them to use their hands, to enjoy what they do, to learn the value of a hard days work , and they will always be able to make a living regardless of what ever situation they find themselves in and then we may have something to look foward to.

I was not born in this country but I thank the Lord everyday, for the day i first stepped on this soil. I am thankfull for the life it has given me and for all of the oppurtunities I otherwise would never had. Having said that, I spend a lot of money and time trying to buy what is made here. Not only because in most cases it is better made but I also feel an obligation to do so. It is becoming increasingly difficult since American made products are becoming basically non-existing in a lot of places. Like Ken I then turn mostly to products from Canada or even Mexico. Not too long ago I decided to buy a Little Giant ladder, so off to Home Depot I go. What should have been a 10 minute thing, turned out to be a 45 minute ordeal. There was the Little Giant ladder I always wanted for about $400.00 . However right next to it there was a Chinese knockoff for $200.00. Nearly identical, same size, but visibly not as well constructed, but only $200.00. Between looking at them over and over again and taking walks away from them to think, over 30 minutes pass. Finally on the last look something on the American made one finally sealed my decision. It had an American Flag on it saying underneath it Proudly Made In the USA. So I looked at the other one and mumbled to myseld "not today". Funny enough when I got to the register, immediately the cashier said to me that there is another one there for half the price. So with a smile I just told her that I did see it but it was missing the American Flag.

Ah yes, would that be A Hilmor Tube Bender Andy?. That bent tube will give you a nicely formed,solid rear edge to weld to the Tub Shell

Now that I've been here (as a RS member) two years, I am more and more exploring the Euro section of Red Square. The Euro members are a class act, and bring a feeling of harmony to the forum. I will be a regular visitor here as time marches on. Van

just keep using the words 'Craftsman, MTD, John Deere' etc.......

Hmm, maybe that explains the 3/4 inch bushing I found on the floor of my garage just now.. which seems to be a perfect diameter to slide over the rod. Will put that on tomorrow and see what it does.