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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.

gotta love dual wheels!!!!!!!!!!

Okay I got the tires on the rim with a tube. The guy I took the tires to really didn't know what he was talking about. I'll post some pictures soon,

Foil method, combined with the Mothers...is the bomb.

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 am still thinking Winter . I bought a shaft/set collar today to put on the snowblower flag to give me some more clearance! Your list helped starting moving to SPRING Forward!

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

If the engine is tuned correct and the muffler is in the right place it will take years to discolor the paint, I have a couple repaints with stock mufflers and never had a issue

Picture should tell the story, sad but true built from ground up. Even made into Hot Bike - Feb. 99' and then again in Feb. 2004, a five year flash back

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.

I don't think there is anything wrong. That's what the throttle is for. Don't expect the governor to do all the work for you. It's job is to keep the engine from over-revving, and to maintain engine speed. But it is not meant to set the engine to the correct speed for the job.

they are standard old school marker bulbs with the 1156 base on it. there are numerous old posts on this subject to include various modifications that folks have done over the years. Use the excellent search engine here on RS.

very cool picture! Check out my lawn ranger!

I see your in buffalo- where is this junkyard? ! I'm 20 min from blo.

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

I go every year but have never exhibited , from what i am told, it can be quite hard to get a spot as an exhibitor & Andy is right they do like you top stay all week .

How many you got there???

What a picture -these guys were all needed in the Snow War This Winter!

Is it a trick of the light or the snow perhaps but those tractors look to be way better than what we manage to buy over here to restore! Andy

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

We got another 4" of snow last night. Went out this morning and blew the snow off my 1000' private lane I share with other neighbors. Got the lane cleared and started to clear individual drives when my 520h lost power to the rear cylinder. It still ran so I drove it to the shed, took the blower and chains off, and put them on another 520H I have. I pulled out of the shed and noticed the tire chain rubbing on the fender bracket so I backed up into the shed to try to slide wheel hub out a little. As I was backing up, the snowblower dropped to the ground. I looked under the tractor and found my lift lever snapped in two. So I took the blower and chains off this tractor and got out my 418A . Third times a charm. The 418A finished the job. I guess this is a good reason that there is no such thing as having too many Wheel Horses.

We had one night here this Winter where it actually got down to about 6 above. No one wanted to go outside till the next day when it was back in the 20's for the morning low. Its on my Bucket List to come visit one of you guys in about five years after I retire, and I want to drive a Wheel Horse with a snow blower attachment and actually blow some snow. SERIOUSLY!!!

I'm reading this and kicking myself for not going down to meet a lot of the members , This year maybe possible, and from the pics and threads sure sounded like Jacksonville and RS were a good mix Looking foward to 2014 Richard Rick

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!

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?

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

yes i do.. and i had 4 inch stock pulley on engine and 4 on trans stock is 6-1/4 i have changed the engien pulley to 5 inch now

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

Old , rusty but trusty 1277 w/6-3211 blower .... Did 5 properties with her today , got it's butt worked off hard but did very well . Sarge

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

All dressed up in her winter clothes.

First time I got to use her. She worked very hard and did a great job!

I got the exhaust nipple out today. I ended up putting two pipe wrenches on the 180 degrees apart, pushing down on one and pulling up on the other. It finally gave in. Got a nice new one and put my custom muffler on! Its an IH muffler that I had a piece of pipe welded to and I painted. I like it a lot. I also put my uni drive sticker on. Not a big deal but it breaks up all the red back there. After doing ALL this and putting all new seals and bearings in the trans I almost regret not rebuilding the engine. But I ran good and didn't smoke..

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.

So, you want our secrets to finding good deals, ahhhh yeah sure, i'll pass that info right along !!!! Busy today but check it out on the second Tuesday of next week.

I love my 1267, it gets so much use around here that I havent really had time to give it the love it deserves. Mainly its the little odd jobs, towing a cart, grading the driveway etc, but I have mowed with it a few times (with a modern 42" deck) and this year fitted a tiller to it. Nice and simple to work on, a ton of power, and the styling that to me is what a Wheel Horse should look like.