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Here's a couple picts from... my 2014 Memorial day display.

Well the geeker that wanted to trade a pile of my yard sale stuff for his 416H tractor showed up with it on Sunday! It was actually a 516H for crikey sakes! Has the original 2 cylinder Onan engine on it! It is missing some parts like the ignition switch, throttle cable and some engine tins. I will need a manual to figure out the wiring. I traded a nice Toro push mower, a #50 JD dump cart and a junky Cub Model 80 for it! Not a bad trade deal for sure! I will clean it up and it will look even better! Why is it every time I sell a few tractors, even more show up soon after? How's it look guys? KJ

I look at the price, and if I think its fair then thats what I'll pay. If I want the item, but think the price is a little high, then I'll try to haggle. I bought a set of valve seat cutters from Dale many years ago, they were barely used and he wanted half of what he'd payed for them. I wouldnt even think about haggling on a deal like that.

Wife finally decided the flower bed in front of our house has got to go.The rose bushes and black berry bush get to stay Loaded with weed paper I didn't want to get wrapped around my mower spindles. So I mounted up my semi-restored 8" plow (Made by Brinly) on to the 704 and played in the dirt some!

Some of you will remember this redo I started in March 2014 under the "New ?....Find" topic. Thanks to many of you, we got her running like new. Please keep in mind when critiquing the body and paint work, I was making a worker ... not a parade horse. There was no attempt to make anything original , just a clean and functional snow blower. Some of the mods were venting the belt guard, raising the fender / seat pan 2" and moving the running boards forward 1.5" to get more clearance for the tire chains, adding the rock shaft and clevis hitch, adding the foot control. I wanted to try a one continues movement with the thinking If the control was not there, I would add a neutral detent and a reverse pedal. The pedal is now spring loaded to go to reverse when the foot pedal is released and to forward when it is depressed. The control is good and the brake pedal can at any time be depressed to go to neutral and stop the machine, so I do not feel there is any safety issue. I only had to alter the shifter cover plate to allow the shifter to move from full forward to full reverse. I locked the shifter to the yoke so it can not move left to right. You probably guessed , I am partial to the 70s C-series Wheel Horses and their ivory wheels. The silver wheels and maroon graphics just don't say Wheel Horse for me. I even thought about putting a C hood on it but gave up on that mod as my body work is pretty poor. There are a few other mods, but we will see who can find those.

I have several implements that have a sleeve/clevis hitch mount, but do not have any horses with the sleeve/clevis hitch, so I have been collecting/preparing to build an adapter. I have attached photos of my adapter, but please refrain from laughing out loud at my welds! I can weld pretty (won't hold) or wooly looking (holds tight) so I go for strength!!

Heres some pics of a couple horses getting some work done this weekend. Little man was in heaven driving his Charger 12. Burned a tank and a half of gas...first since we parked it after the winter. I threw in a vid of the 18 Auto running the 60 inch deck from the 520 as well. Its in pieces again and all mowing has been done with the 1974 C-160 with the 42 inch RD deck. Makes for about 4 1/2 to 5 hours of seat time every week since the 18 croaked. This weekend we moved 3 big loads of rock and built a great fire pit we enjoyed Saturday Today we moved about 6 tons of fill and topsoil to fill a ditch and plant grass. We got about 2 tons moved before my buddy Matt came and moved the rest with his backhoe while the Charger did all the rough and finish grading. And here is the 18 running the big deck..not the best as the PTO bearing was on its way south....

Worked her like she was a red-headed step-child, and she performed flawlessly. Have a small acreage in the country that I still go out to play in occasionally. Has the old house, a pole building, and some of my old farm equipment. Now that I have the 312, I can get serious about cleaning the property up. Mowed out there about a month ago, but other matters prevented me from getting out there till yesterday. Here are a few photos of loading the tractor in the truck, driving the 50 miles to the farm, and shots of before, and after, mowing for a solid 5 hours. Loaded. Arrival. Weeds. More Weeds. Mowed! Mowed! Leaving.

Just grabbed a wood scrap Eric... drilled two holes for my clevis hitch, then screwed the flag mount onto that.

Every Memorial Day we roll out some tractors, meet up with some friends, and drive through two local parades. We had amazing weather and a great line up for both parades. One of my students in the tractor club, Thomas, came out to drive my 701 in the morning parade. I hooked up the 4 wheeled wagon and he pulled my kids through the parade so they could throw candy. Here he is all ready to roll..... My good friend Lewie Bolinger showed up with his new "rat rod" today. This is the first time we have seen it. It got a ton of looks today! So cool! It has a shortened frame, weed eater engine, lever steering, hand throttle, etc...... The morning parade was very nice in the small town of Leesburg, IN. Here are some shots of us getting prepared. Thomas controlled the 701 as I navigated the infamous "Drags-tor" After a quick lunch at a local burger joint we unloaded in Syracuse, IN for our afternoon parade. Dad drove the 1045 with the 4 wheel wagon in tow. My daughter Addison is having some carb issues with the "Lady Ranger" so she took the 701 with LTD 24 trailer through the parade route. My son Zach hopped on his 500 Special and made it to the start of the parade and then it died . Not sure what the issue is but I am assuming the carb and probably fouled out plug. I felt horrible for the little guy. Had to push that thing about a half mile back to the trailer while he was on it. Here we are hanging out in the shade ready to roll. Finally here is a picture of a good friend, **** McNeal who encouraged me to get in the hobby a long time ago. He is sitting on his beautiful GT-14. Hope that every one else had a great Memorial Day as we did!

Leaving.

Good luck with the Mobil 1. Personally I'd stick with the Pennzoil, I've been using it for many yrs. myself with no issues. I tried out Mobil 1 on a fleet of seven S-10's security trucks I used to maintain. These trucks ran almost 24/7 at slow speeds mostly. The oil levels were checked at least once every few days and more often than not the oil level would be down a few quarts. ( no leaks) Within a few months this was enough to convince me to switch back to Pennzoil and the dissappearing oil issues were resolved.

OK ... I'm sorry!!!!! I got yelled at because I had no idea how this worked. I just jumped in with both feet, and I guess I should have read a bit first. So ... I'll start over on my own post, and not trash up other guys stuff!!! Background ... in 1978, I got a new D200 for my Dad at Jacks Wheel Horse in Sarver PA. First two pics are when it was new, one nice pic, one with my big butt in the middle of it!! Over the years, it was used to mow, plow snow, and spread lots of gravel and dirt. One hell of a machine, period!! It also served Dad well as a grandchild entertainment device!! It replaced an older 6hp horse, which we worked to death. One pic here is me pulling a single plow with Dad steering , or should I say LEANING on it!! Even with all his weight that lil 6 pulled it!! So fast forward to 2014 ... I'm on a shortlist, with major coronary issues. On full disability for awhile now, just waitin for the backhoe to show up! Too much truck driver food I guess!! I decided to look for a D200 to restore. I figured I could do that at my own pace, day at a time. I found a complete, but crappy unit down in Naples FL, for way too much $$$!!! I looked at cheaper units, but when I added the cost of missing parts, this one became a much better deal. It has a mower only, big unit, guy said it's a 60, but I didn't think they put them on 200's, they were 250 only, right?? Anyway, this is gonna be a cruiser only, so at some point, I am going to sell or trade off ALL the mower parts, including the PTO, jack shaft and lift cyl, and probably the valve body as well. First step was to tear it to pieces!! Fasteners in a parts wash bin, everything else piled on shelves awaiting their turn on the wire wheel / sandblaster table!! For many years, I traveled the country, every state except AK and HI by myself, just me, my truck, and a creatively written log book!! LOL Now, I'm not about to cruise the woods alone. But wait, the D200 is a single seater!! Not no mo!! The first part of this is an 18 inch frame stretch so I can have a place for my sexy red head to sit!!! The most troubling part was how to modify the transaxle drive tubes. My buddy suggested welding hose bibs on each tube, then connecting them with soft lines. Sounds good to me!! WOW, talk about an expert welder!!! Sweet job!! So that's done, well, not the lines just yet. Have to mount the axle, and pump to get the exact length. Not much room for error, as high pressure soft lines don't bend very well!! The frame pieces should be done next week, and I can start putting it back together and get the lines made up. Now don't get in a rush, it's 92-96 deg everyday here, and the garage is usually 15-20 deg hotter than outside. Lots of sweat, lots of Gatoraide, and lots and lots of naps!!! LOL Now, I have to tell you about my first Red Square experience. I had to hacksaw the steering wheel off, so I needed a new top for the shaft. Member Bill Price from AL responded to my cry for help. He cut off an old shaft he had, and sent it, along with some other cool pieces to me FREE OF CHARGE. That's just wrong! LOL If that's the kind of people that are common on here, well, this truly is a special place. Many thanks brother!!! You get first dibs on my spare part pile, which will be pretty big!! Stay tuned!!!!

Hello all. I'm a middle aged woman, no kids or grand kids , new to tractors, though a few years ago a friend invited me to join him at the Florida Flywheelers Tractor pull and flea market where I had a ball. Just bought my first tractor, a C-125, mechanical transmission (8 speed) with a tiller attachment this past Sunday. I'm not sure of the year, 80 or 81 near as I can tell. The dataplate seems to be missing. Much is original, but some of it has obviously been backyard engineered as well. I can't say I ever really had much interest in tractors, but about 8 months ago my life took an unexpected turn. My yard became infested with ticks. So now I have a tractor. Make sense? Probably not. LOL. I was real reluctant to use chemicals on the lawn. Aside from the expense and the risk to the health of my puppies, most chemicals I tried only seemed to make the ticks mad. One day, I read about guinea fowl being devastating to ticks, so I bought 3. Well, the guineas I got, don't much seem to like the taste of ticks. I ended up having to spend the money and polute my lawn anyway. Darn birds grew on me though. Next thing I know, I'm buying some chicken eggs and hatching them. I mean, I already have a coop and a run for the guineas. And I love fresh brown eggs. What's a few more beaks to feed? They eat like birds. Right? Readers Digest condensed version... Hatched 10 of 12 chicken eggs. Will keep 2 for eggs and the other 8 are going to freezer-camp. They're about 9 weeks old, so getting close. Have 10 guinea eggs incubating now and will be ordering another 25 chicks in a couple months as the ones we bought are barnyard mixed breeds and we wanted Buff Orpingtons to raise. Feeding that many chicks, we needed a garden to grow fodder. I like tomatoes even more than eggs, so what the heck. BIG garden. (Had a small one a few years back) Plus, what is one to do with all that chicken black gold if not fertilize a garden? LOL While looking for a tiller, I came across my C-125 with tiller. Sold! I'd been thinking about a small FEL to help with some of the guano management,as joint pain makes lifting difficult. But, my JD LX277 AWS is just too nice and not really suitable for a FEL. The C-125 is ideal for my small homestead. Soon, I hope to employ my engineering background to design the FEL as well as a hydraulic lift. I have to tell you, when I first rode that C-125, I knew it was nothing like my lawn tractor. Put it in first and it just creeped along. Then I realized I was still in high gear! Wow! Lot of torque for 12 hp. Clutch transitions high on the step and had a hard time finding it. Consequently, the first time I put it in 3rd gear, I popped the front wheels 8" up off the deck! Very impressive. Anyway. Love the tractor, but I'm finding out theres a lot about it I don't know. In my quest for information, I found this site. Lots of good information here. Hope someday I'll be able to contribute a little to the project myself. For now, I hope y'all can suffer another newbie and a city interloper into the world of farming and tractors... Wheel Horse tractors!

I am having a yard sale this Saturday(already over), Sunday and Monday. There will be about 20 WH's for sale if anybody wants to stop by to buy a WH or 2, feel free to come over. A young feller stopped by and said he likes JD stuff. I told him I had one cool JD item, a 1960's Model # 50 dump cart. He said he was interested in it and he had one old WH to trade for it! I asked him what he had and he got out his trusty smart phone and showed me a pic. It was a descent looking 416H with a 2 cylinder Onan engine that runs! He asked if I had any push mowers and I showed him a new fangled Toro that is a nice one. He said he would trade the WH for the dump cart and the push mower if I would do it? I said casually, uhhh yep, I would go for that! He said he would stop by tomorrow with it. I got his number just in case! So I hope he shows up with it! I will take pics of it if he shows up. Wahoooo! Keith

I have the same tractor and have needed to rebuild mine completely. Need less to say I know it pretty well because of that. I will do my best to address your symptoms one at a time and give you something to check...at least from my dealings with these pieces of iron. Along with Bobs recommendation of your hook assembly being in tact also check the following things... First you complaint on the actuator rod hitting the intake and the "return spring" missing. There is no return spring for this PTO system. The lever is your return and there is a small brake band attached to the front that stops the PTO from turning when not engaged. If your rod is hitting, bend it until it doesn't hit the intake. I had to do mine. Proper adjustment of the clutch is when fully engaged the washer on the fronton the trunnion is able to be spun by your finger. Then you know you have it tightened correctly for proper engagement and full power transmission. As I'm watching you engage and disengage the PTO the first thing I see is that your lever is moving entirely too much. I believe that the ears on your collar assembly have either worn or came out of the engagement bar. It should never move to the extent your is to have engagement. Also a problem is the bearing in the collar assembly. Mine went bad and ate the surface of the shaft where the bearing rides. This bearing #102914 is a proprietary bearing. It has an SKF number on it but cannot be purchased from them. Its Toro only and runs $129. I am going to turn the bearing surface on the shaft down and friction fit a sleeve on it which will allow me to use a common metric bearing. The other thing to worry about with all the motion you have going on is the 4 beveled washers that live in the clutch pulley. Its sounds as if they have lost their spring and aren't retaining the proper pressure on both the front and rear clutch facing. Next thing you claim is "there's plenty of clutch facing left...only found 1 crack" ....which face is cracked?...theres 2 clutch faces on this tractor..a front and a rear... There may be plenty left but once its glazed or gets oil soaked it wont grip at all...ask me how I know... you will need to pull it off and if you're lucky, clean it with a ton of brake clean and then scuff it with 60 grit sand paper on a piece of glass or other extremely plat and true surface. Also...cracks lead me to believe it was overheated...it shouldn't crack under normal usage. I believe you have no choice but to tear it off. You have some serious issues that need to be addressed internally on that entire assembly. Mine was turning a 60 in deck from a 520 and it never stalled the way you tiller is stalling the PTO. You also should be running that tractor wide open at all times. You're killing the hydro unit and the engine isn't receiving proper cooling unless its run at full throttle. The engines are governed accordingly to have peak power at WOT. Any other questions..ask away or PM me...and good luck to you...you're gonna need it as much of this stuff is NLA from Toro

I second Bob's recommendation. Here are a couple pics of my 18 Automatic without the clutch and pulley, so you can see the hook assembly (pivot pin) in the bearing plate on my K582, Mark.

Great looking display Craig.....

Great pics.... like the flowers in the foreground on the last two.

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Nice display, Craig!

Looks awesome Craig! Very nice looking Horse's you have on display. I also like that black and white seat cover on your 653 and the HL5 head lights are a nice touch too! Who made your seat cover, a local guy? How much did it cost? Thanks...KJ

Beautiful Craig! You are very talented and patriotic. I am proud to know you

Craig. Really great. As all American as it gets. Btw. I forgot my thanks to all that served. So thank you gentleman / ladies who served this great country. Glenn

Check the pivot pin at the bottom of the PTO.....

Will post a few more pics. of the truck later tonight or tomorrow. I have owned the Ford for 32 years now. Was my father's truck, and he bought it when I was 10 or 11, and it was old then. When I turned 13, he taught me how to drive it, along with our Farmall H tractor. Had only about 42K on the odometer. We only used it on the farm, and it sat most of the time in the barn. When Dad gave it to me, I was too broke to do any restoration, could only maintain it well. Unfortunately, I also had no barn or garage to keep it in, so it sits outside, which is why it looks rough. Mechanically she is near perfect. Rebuilt the flatty some 23 years ago, but only have put around 23K on the engine since.

very nice

Thats a very cool set up. How did you get the flag to stay in your hitch? I was going to run the 857 in the parade in my town but my carburetor still has to get tuned in so right now she is a bit unpredictable also, I had to work at noon and that parade was at 1030 so I thought that would be cutting it a little close what with all the transportation and such. It will just have to wait till the next parade i guess.

You forgot the 10 of 12 barnyard chickens I already hatched! Thanks for the welcome everyone. Here are some pictures of my tractor. Needs some work, but oddly it makes me smile everything I look at it!

Looks like some fun... was had by all. Really great picts Scott.

great pics always nice to see the horses

YES, the 10 is being given away, I'll go one step further and say 10 people will receive something additional out of 200! I will also go on to say that there will be ONLY 10 EVER of this, or at least as far as I know. For that matter, there will ONLY BE 200 as well, so there will be 200 and of those 200 10 will get something extra! The answer will come out on Friday!

Not if you hook it up backwards!

Thanks for posting the parade pic's! I was thinking but something came up, wagon 'n Horse to the local parade. We have another parade July 4th, I intend to be there too! Again, thanks for sharing!

Look's like a great time Scott thanks for sharing your day & your pics

Muriatic acid and emery paper then measure the crank

That looked like great fun! Thank you for sharing the pics

well we finally completed other than a decal kit for my Johnson loader its not bad but we had paint issues but it looks good from 20' but here she is see what you think?

the best all around traction in winter is turf tires with 2 link v bar chains,im sure someone will chime in and inform you as to where to get them

Watched the Memorial Day Parade in Beech Creek, PA today. Cub Cadet, JD, Massy and Case, (Ingersol-Rand), were represented. No Wheelhorses for an area that has a lot of them in use.

Boy.... I could not be happier with this purchase! Think I hit a home run with her.... Mowed with it last night and not only did it leave a nice flat cut, ran so smooth... Perfect!! Let the kid finish the front property, told him to head to the stable to put it in its new stall, looked at the back and saw the gas tank was wet on the left of it, yelled at him to shut it down to check it out.... Turns out the gas cap has a crack on the face of it. Gas spewing out of it. Hosed her down good, wiped it down good and put her away. Guess gas cap gets added to shopping list next week. Think I'm gonna run those belts till they break, get my money out of them, but I'll have some new ones hanging nearby next week. Pic of Kyle mowing yesterday... Did go home and mowed with my 416 and could feel the differences in the two models. Onan roar over the heavy thump of the Kohler..... I like them both. Softer ride with the bigger tires on the 416. Now I have to keep reminding my self to give the 8-25 some needed seat time, so she gets mowing duty next to give the 416 a break next time.... God I Love owning multiple WH's!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Disregard the beer can in the bed of the truck, it is some sort of photographic artifact that shows up whenever I mow. Strangely though, it happens regardless of which camera I use.

Glad I took this apart. The Imfamous differential bearing was missing a ball. Found it in the case sheared in half. There was also quite a bit of rust above the oil level so I tried Evapo-rust on the inside of the case. Did a nice job - leaves only nice dark gray iron. Just waiting on a gasket and this puppy is going to live again. As to the original problem... I won't really know until I start re-assembling the tractor again.

only friday night you pay for thursday and saturday if you stay until sunday morining oh and if I remember right it's $20 for one night

That's the ticket... go for the shrink.

I've got a 418 with a Kohler Magnum with almost 1800 hours on it. It smokes a bit when started and sometimes when I engage the pto, so I'm thinking that at some point I'll have to overhaul the Kohler. Reading through the forum I see loads of threads about the different engines but I'm wondering if it would be better to buy a rebuilt Kohler long block, add the remaining components, bolt it in and drive away. Seems like I'd only be down for a week or two with the long block whereas getting the engine rebuilt could take a month or more. Any thoughts? Of course another option would be to buy a second 418 to cover the downtime but somehow I see a "shrink" in my future with that option as my better half is going to start wondering why the garage looks so red...

I have found on some engines you can't get enough tune out of the carb without a muffler...

Sounds like you have all bases covered, that is a curious situation though. Hope you geter solved. Every time we list a problem and it becomes solved we all benefit from the discovery!

They all look nice when everything is gone through. But they were meant for a purpose and while I won't ever work it the way it's past life was, it will get used. If you can redo it once it can be done again. Now if I found a nice original one, there's no way I would do the same. They are only that way once and once that character is lost, it's gone forever. There's nothing that's going to make it original again.

I know several folks around here have spoken of drilling a hole through the coupler and shaft and putting a pin through it. Not sure if I would go that way since the couplers are not that hard to find. As mentioned above, ebay is a good source for them. Also, I have seen a service bulletin or two (available in the wheel horse manuals yahoo group) that speak to the alignment of the engine and hydro pump and the propensity of the coupler to wear if not aligned properly. I've been lucky so far with not having them wear out. I always put grease on them whenever I have the coupler off of the spline shaft. Not sure if that is really all that important, but at least it gives me a false sense of security. Good luck with the center pto shaft bearing. Take plenty of pictures and share them with us.