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The 701 got a new front axle bolt, some bushings to fix the steering wear, a couple ‘tie rod savers’. Determination made it’s not original paint but I love the look of it, so it got a pair of Terry’s decals. Oh, and starting on a ‘restored’ WH lantern to go with the patina one.

Lots of ideas to DIY!

Surely there are always exceptions to the rule but it was really meant as a joke since 80+% of the members here are old men working on their lawnmowers. I forgot to add the But, if you give 100 random old men over the age of 60 a new Ipad without any personal instructions, how many do you think will actually be using it? Probably the same amount that figured out how to set the time on their VCR-- two. My FIL was in his 80s before he passed and only had a 5th grade education. It took some time to teach him how to use a PC and he was certainly a bit reluctant at first. But once he got going I created a monster. He then educated himself through the net on many different subjects from learning math to how to fix his own refrigerator which was great to see and it was actually kind of impressive. The only bad part was he constantly got malware and viruses from visiting porn sites. LoL

I read the thread that Prondy wrote about rebuilding a Kohler, and the tools required to do it. It got me to thinking about the tools I have bought this summer, in order to pursue my new hobby. What I can remember anyway.........A good digital caliper, two styles of valve spring compressors, Bore gauge, inch pound torque wrench, Flywheel and assorted pullers, dead blow hammer, several cylinder hones, dial indicator, ring compressor, good snap ring pliers,a bench vise, (yeah, I didn't even have a bench vise), ultra sonic cleaner. and probably other things I can't think of right now. But..........I have never had so much fun in my life. I get to do what I enjoy, how " I " want to do it, and at my own pace.

1-2 pounds of boost at half throttle and no load

Well thanks guys that was the issue. I adjusted the brake and now I can shift with out grinding the gears. I put on the wheel weights. Was kinda a pain because the chains would not fit around the weights so I had to add 2 more links to the chains to get everything on. I installed the cigarette lighter. I didnt have a hole saw big enough to go through the dash. The cigarette lighter I got is much larger diameter. I just installed it over the top of where someone had installed that solenoid. So now it has a flashing yellow light as well. This little tractor runs great and thanks to @Vinylguy really looks fantastic. Wish it was warmer out I would go through it and give it a deep cleaning and some paint touch up. Going to do some plowing with it this winter unless I get another offer I cant refuse.

The differentiator is the particular battery's internal chemistry and how it is being used. Where sulfur on the plates is a product of use in the battery, desulfator can work; where not, no value. Good luck finding a battery maker willing to share details about their product's chemistry beyond marketing hype. Also, with sealed batteries, diagnosing "cell shorts" or "dead cells" or adding miracle elixirs aren't options. We are in a replacement world, my friends and we got here because we consumers tend to buy the lowest cost and the easiest path.

42 inch Deck Side Discharge for sale right now PM for pictures... I cross contaminated 2 topics.....hope the POLICE don't chase me...………………………….

Fired up the 701 Wheel Horse this am to check on condition etc. Had to gas it up and run a while. IMG_9534.MOV

Going to tear into an RJ transmission today to see what good I might be able to save from this one! Not sure why I waited until cold weather to tear into this one (I have two others to work on also awaiting attention) but I was motivated this am! Started out with making oatmeal cookies with raisins and walnuts! Anyway, a good sign that all the drive side case bolts came out east so maybe not a lot of rust of water damage! Maybe we will see.

Wasn't sure where to post this, so I landed here. I am out of parts for my engine rebuilds, so I moved on to my other project. Whenever I am rebuilding a tractor, one of the jobs I hate most, is prepping the wheels for painting. After they are cleaned up, sanded, and ready for paint, you have to tape off the tire, with several pieces of masking tape, going around and around til it's covered. At least that's the way I always did it. A tedious and time consuming task. So I got an idea. Maybe others have been doing this forever, and I am just a little slow. That's possible. I got a roll of contact/shelf liner paper and covered the entire wheel and tire. Then with a razor knife I trimmed out the center, cutting along the INSIDE edge of the wheel. Using a pick or something pointy, tuck the extra material in around the OUTSIDE edge of the wheel. In no time at all, your wheel is ready for primer and paint. The contact paper comes off in one pull, not stripping off little bits of masking tape. This may not be as good as removing the tire, but some tires, like these, are semi-pneumatic, and don't come off. Just an idea.

Oh when I say scrap I mean I pull them out of all the dead mowers that have been derelict in bone yards for a long time. I'm cheap to the point I carry a rope for the first cold start of the day and just use the starter for the rest of the job thereafter.. just too stubborn when batteries cost as much as some of my machines.

I don‘t believe in any of that chemical „whizzards“. best to take care to your batteries in my opinion it keep them well charged with an characteristics charger. I use a Cetek charakteristics charger for that purposes, that uses IOUO Charakteristics. Take care the batteries don’t be discharged below 50% for longer times, that increases the sulfatation process. On the small Garden shed i installed a Solar System to be independent. This Solar charger has a secondary connector normally for Starter batteries we use in RV. I used in the past this secondary connector to recharge my Vehicles the had a longer Stay. The Cetek have an further advance, it is able a lightly sulfated battery to refreshing. Here a micro or nanosecond short will drop a high current, that can break the sulfatation, until it is not too far gone. That‘s a electro chemical process. but if the Acid has enough saturation if flips and won‘t work further. If the sulfating process is happen once, i can‘t be undone, it just can be slowered or better smoothened. same like a worn spindle, grease will reduce the wear further, but the wear that is happen can‘t be undone only by grease. I don‘t believe in any of that wonderdrinks but in care of an characteristics charger. A normal Starterbattery is constructed to keep 3 years, each tim3 over that timeline is given time. In the last years the batteries changed over to other Acids but even to thinner lead plates, That is the reason it is normally, that they will wear faster than older batteries.

A buddy had just stopped by. He heard what I was building. He said I needed a safety helmet.

All that plastic had to go. It looked to modern and it just didnt fit very well "size wise". So older tin was put on. Changed over to an older style dip stick and changed the air filter style to something older as well. On to the exhaust. Although I'm not sure which way to go with this build. A stack? Salt & Pepper sbaker style muffler even though they are kinda loud. Or go low and long and run it out of the back?

You can parallel the dead battery with one with some charge to get the charger to start and later remove the temp battery.

Electrolysis Some use to clean Wheel Horses Not for patina

I’m a Ford guy but thought old mustangs were dime a dozen. One of my buddies had these two Torino‘s for years and when it was time to sell, he gave me first crack at them. He was asking a ridiculously low price so my wife actually agreed. The fastback is a four-speed bench seat car with the 351 Cleveland cobra jet. The wagon also had a tamed version of the 351 Cleveland in it. They were both too big and heavy to be very fast but they were tons of fun to drive. I had them for about 15 years when somebody in one of my Torino forums saw some pictures of them both and had to have them. I really wasn’t interested in selling them so I shot him an outrageous number and the crazy dude said OK and so now they are his. About the same time my neighbor bought his wife a brand new Mustang GT with a six speed in it. She never got along with it so they decided to sell it a couple years later and buy her one with an automatic. I also sold the police interceptor that I bought for cheap and fixed up a bit. Between that and the Torino money I was able to buy my neighbors pristine mustang GT with 4000 miles on it. Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut.

Here we go. Varoom varoom lol

How about we list all the shiny new parts we are ordering for the herd? it's exciting to wait for deliveries of even the most mundane of parts for the struggling members of the herd. I mean a shiny new carburetor , Replacing that rusty wire with a snap ring, A new pair of shoes. [Tires] Shop tunes playing "do you think my tractor's sexy" is a song not to be overlooked.

Not sure I agree. I just helped a friend who turned 94 last week get started on a new iPhone to replace his "candy bar" LG. He called me today with questions he had as he explored and experimented. Then he texted me a couple of pictures.

Old men and technology don't mix!

Looks like some side force applied to the three flat studs on the outside with a throwout bearing would engage the pulley to the shaft. When I was a kid we had a rater crude engine driven manure removal device that had a rope attached to a wide shovel and a pulley that would wind the rope while you held on to the shovel for dear life. You would activate it by yanking on a rope suspended from the ceiling and you were off to the races! A ball on the rope would open the clutch when you got to the top of the ramp over the manure spreader. I sort of doubt that OSHA would approve of it.

Built a cleaning table for the 1257 and got engine taken off along with a few other peices to start the big clean.

JC also sold oil filters that were no more than toilet paper in a cannister and pellets you dropped into the spark plug hole to rebuild your engine!

I need to go to Champy’s Chocken in Chattanooga some day! Wow, that’s a tongue twister!

@The Tuul Crib Hi Randy!

After 1/4 mile road test last night, I’m happy to say hello to Bowling Green, KY! 500 miles down, 844 to get there!

Kinda drifting off topic here, but---- No doubt many of you know that the "new" type chargers wont do nothing if your batt is stone dead. Seems they have to sense some voltage to activate charging!! I found this out the hard way when my old charger went south, went and got a brand new charger and wouldnt work, took it back (wally world) and they exchanged it -- still nothing. Ive always had a habit of checking that I have the charger plugged in by scratching the 2 leads to confirm I have power, well the 'new' charger wont pass this test. So I read the little directions and says 'needs XX voltage - 1 1/2 - 2 volts?? - to activate!!! say what? How am I gonna get 2 volts out of a dead battery?? (this was in one of my tractors) So, pondering for a few mins, I headed for the nearest pawn shop and quickly found an old style charger, ckd it in the store and it passed the 'scratch test' With as many tractors/equip most of us has... well we gotta have a charger that will charge a dead batt. I've come to appreciate Wal Mart L&G bats - $30+/- Ive got one in a D160 that 5+ yrs old now, and another that into 3yrs.

Having been a Journeyman Lineman for 41 years I have experienced back feed many times on storm work. A transformer steps down power but when feed in reverse will step that same power up to the primary voltage which could be 2400 volts to ground, 7200 volts to ground , or what ever the utility's primary voltage is. When on storm work our best friend are voltage testers and GROUNDS which have saved me several times. Be safe, we want to get your power restored but also go home to our families when our work is completed. Bob

New battery from Walmart

Plus I got a great offer from the HF Santa today to take off an additional $100 from the purchase price!

So here it is. Headlight? Probably so. Here's a before and after.

I have had very good luck with the deck of card trick learned on here. Just the rears on the 418-A.

For nearly a decade now I've topped up scrapyard batteries with boiling epsom salt/water mix and thrown them on my BatteryMINDer 1500. Of the countless dozens, perhaps three in all have failed to work again. Some of them I would continue to use for 1-3 years.. reliably year round. Thats near the life of a cheap walmart battery .. I won't complain. Just this Summer I sold a 67 Sub Cadet with a 2007 EverStart 230cca battery in it.. I could walk away for a month and light it back up no trouble. When I got it the tractor hadn't moved in a few years and was dead as could be. I dunno .. tends to work for me. Have a 2005 or so diehard group 24 i carry around as a jumper for anything that needs it which is still turning a tractor over just fine.

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Been up to the farm. Smell of cows. Need to shower. To avoid any row's.

In my head I'm about 60% stack, 40% low and out the back...

I used a 12/24v charger and ran batteries in the mix too. On 24v, it was exponentially quicker than 12v. I am not up on the ins and outs of why, but it was an awesome cooker tank!

Since we don't know what year you are talking about, my twisted logic tells me that a search on the axle oil seal (6449, 1-1/8" ID) shows all the models that it fits. Charger 12 models from 1968 to 1972 use that seal. So I guess the answer (in a round about method) is yes, Charger 12's have 1-1/8" axles.

Walmart, Tractor Supply and Sam's Club do indeed have some great fixes for tired batteries!

I resemble that remark And you make a good point on the adoption rate (though I think of it as an adaptation rate since learning demands change). We old guys still have lots of "horsepower" and Dennis' point is valid--where do we get the info we need, calibrated to what we need and the way we learn? Heck of a good question. I'll try to pitch in, but I am not a fully-vetted guru. All y'all will stop me if I get to "teachy", ok?

Wire brush sandpaper Electrolysis scuff pad And needle scaler

I use a large car battery with the charger connected to it in parallel usually on a 20 gallon tank. This way most of the voltage is provided by battery with charger just helping along by keeping it charged.

The compression seems low. Was the throttle wide open when you were checking the compression? Throttle position makes a big difference. Check the engine manual for timing instructions. Adjusting points gap sets the timing. Be sure to reinstall the screws for the points cover when adjusting. One screw is tapped into a pressurized oil passage. Follow the procedure in the service manual for using a timing light to set the timing. Bill

T’was just thinking about your delivery a bit ago! So glad it made it there in one piece!

Got a fairly big package from @pullstart today. if i could take a guess id say its a sundstrand rear end!

Just a WARNING. If you are using Super Glue, make sure you dont have ANY on your finger before you step out to take a leak.🤣🤣🤣🤣