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That is a bracket made by Trac Vac for mounting their leaf vac units to a Wheel Horse. I have one just like it, only it's black. It retails for over $300 new. Save it in case you pick up a leaf vacuum.

Really don't know how to categorize this, mods feel free to relocate if necessary. To say I am having a blast with this 'addiction' is putting it lightly. I have already started quite the collection of used parts and am making a little side cash to support the habit. My current 'play money' side gig balancing cranks is slowing down as the owner is getting up there and decided to downsize the business. With that being said, I am seriously considering offering custom fabricated parts 'by the order' and wanted some opinions on whether folks think there would be a desire/market for this or not. If this were to 'pan out', I would plan to pull the trigger- couple this with the used parts sales, pay dues to be in the vendor section, and advertise/market as a true, part time 'DBA'. These tie rods are just a quick example of something I would offer, and believe I could do it at an affordable price point. Looking for input here fellas, good, bad or otherwise. Thanks!

HUGE milestone yesterday fellas!!! Brought 'lawn duty' to Maries to do leaf duty, as it finally quit raining enough to do it. Shes never operated a GT in her life, tried the 655 for about 30 feet and didnt like the 'stick shift'. She hopped on that hydro and apparently liked it, as she said 'seeya there' and took off to the neighborhood Sunday Funday, with me 'chasing' her in the truck ha! The 'background' went over big on the facebook garden tractor page, and am having a heck of a time convincing them that was NOT on purpose Oh, and that K341 in this thing is quite the powerhouse- I dig it!

I picked up a sweet deal this morning, some tires, wheels and weights! The tires and wheels are Carlyle 27x12-12 on 12x11 wheels. The weights appear to be an aftermarket kind I think. They weight 64 pounds each and I got the whole lot for $150. My plan is put these tires on my GT-14. Anyone know anything about these weights? I found some similar ones with a google search at a JD place. They said they would fit on JD 400's but were not JD weights. They look the same except for the casting #. https://www.google.com/search?q=garden+tractor+wheel+weights&tbm=isch&chips=q:garden+tractor+wheel+weights,g_1:cast+iron:QqNZIbmOm-0%3D&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnvoXa05TuAhXPi60KHQXAD9oQ4lYoAHoECAEQGQ&biw=1571&bih=759#imgrc=f5ev2qUhwS21QM I stuck them on my cub when I got home just to see how they look. They are big! They are almost 27" tall and a little over 12" wide. I am thinking they would get a little taller on a little narrower wheel. Maybe 10" instead of 11" Randy

A couple better shots. Lookin a bit lop sided with the one headlight.

Tank 2 DONE

Correct.Love the heated cab.When we got the 35 inch snow fall a couple weeks ago,my Mahindra and blower got a real work out.I clear a really large area.I started that morning at 9 and never went back in the house til 4 PM and I wasn't quite done.Only broke 2 shear bolts.Your new plow looks pretty impressive.How wide and high is it?? Looks huge.Are your rear tires loaded?

Just a few thoughts, you already have competition on tie rods so you'd have to match or better the price point or add value to your product if you were charging more than the competition. Heavier duty would be a plus I think, but for most of us the ones currently being offered are adequate strength. By the way, for TRE's we don't really need RH/LH threading so you can keep your part stock and tooling costs down. It's too simple to just disconnect one end and a twist or two to adjust one end only. And probably to never be done again.

@Bill D thanks! I actually have 2 trac vac’s but they are tow behind trailers instead of this type of mount! Maybe I will find some thick steel plate and cut some weights to fit it. Amazing the depth of knowledge here. Thank you fellers.

I drove around a bit this morning with the new solid mounts installed. I have to say that I noticed NO difference in the amount of vibration. Felt the exact same to me. Motor doesn't rock when PTO is engaged and belt stays aligned now. I like them... plus, they add a little 'bling' nice shiny munimula parts. I thought I would mention this... I thought it might be a good idea to raise the engine up one thick washer distance so I selected four washers and tried to install them between the mount and the bar. Couldn't get the bolts started. I could get the two fronts or the two rears but not all four. Wellll... after futzing with it for about an hour wondering why, it seems I forgot about geometry. Since the mounts are on an angle, adding height changes the geometry. Of COURSE the bolts won't line up! Duuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I have to assume its a rack to hang some counter weights on but not sure I have seen anything but bins of concrete around here. Is this for a suitcase style weight? Tractor is new to me and figuring it out. First WH too. Is it a WH product or something else? Thanks

On the subject of heim joints, Gramps made up a set of joints and put them on the front of our (USED HARD!!!) 1968 Electro, sometime around 1985.. No grease fittings and still smooth and tight almost 40 years later. I concur.. wouldn't be opposed to some heavier duty units for a few I'll be building at some point. Good luck either way.

This is exactly the info I'm looking for fellas! Heavier duty would be a good way to set TREs apart. Maybe offer a 'basic' set at once price, and equipped with zerks as an upgrade. This would all be based on heim prices as they vary wildly. Glad to hear no real need to RH/LH- easy enough to do, but these aren't like karts or cars ha, pretty much set em and go, but nice to have a little adjustment for manufacturing tolerances and 40-60 year old spindles that may have been tweaked a time or 6 over their lifetime. Tie rod ends would only be one of the things i'd offer. Theres a whole lot more than can be done- things that others don't offer and/or are available but through the roof, like deck center double pulleys that are well over 100 bucks. I have 'built' them to exact specs and could duplicate those for about half the price.

Horse-drive in the woods Crawling rocks and slinging mud OH, watch for wheelies!

I would think just one filter before the fuel pump would be enough.

Rule number ??; if a Wheel Horse is under $100 for buying, you don’t have to tell your wife. 😀

Sounds like something I would do...lol

@WHX24, @PeacemakerJack, @ebinmaine, @JCM, @shallowwatersailor, @pullstart, @Horse Newbie, @elcamino/wheelhorse, @Ed Kennell, and the rest of RS .... As I have mentioned before I would be getting snow removal tools for my Mahindra eMax 22, the whole package plow, blower and soft cab, I had purchased a Kubota set-up a couple years back with the intentions of modifying it to fit/work with it but after careful consideration decided just to sell it to help pay for the correct set-up built for Mahindra (by Berco in Canada), I ordered it the end of October and its showed at the dealer in PA right before Christmas and I just picked it up Friday, and today got the sub-frame (which both the plow and blower use so you can switch between with ease) assembled and mounting brackets installed on the tractor frame (the only thing I don't like is you have to switch these brackets back and forth between this and the mower deck mounts "not quite WH easy" but after a few times it may not be so bad ), then installed the sub-frame , snow plow and ran the hydraulic lines and plugged into the loader/sector valve. The cab and blower assembly will follow within the next few days/weeks. Pics and a little video of it in operation. 20210110_163214.mp4

I recently had an experience wherein I missed on a tractor that was free by a few minutes. My female was seemingly just as disappointed as I was. I believe that should give me forward permission to get another tractor

Got it riding smooth and looking good!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news here Scott but it looks like you're going to need a bigger garage / barn / workshop to put all of HER tractors in....

OK I think I got it. There are 2 wires coming from under the shroud in a harness. I just assumed they were AC voltage wires that would go to a voltage rectifier. I took the shroud off, it seems the voltage regulator is under the shroud. One of the wires in the harness is a kill wire, the other is DC voltage wire for the battery. I will confirm this when I get it back together and running.

Us too. I always clear about 4 to 6 feet around any tree before felling. 360 degree route.

I didn't even know he was still around.

Well dam. It started right up. This motor is no fun. It seems to load up on fuel, and blow a little black smoke now and then. No one said the electric fuel pump wouldn't work, so I hooked a line up to the H70. Maybe it's the pump making it load up. IDK I have a couple of Lawn Boy fuel tanks I could rig up, but they are out in cold storage, and I mean cold! Tomorrow I will remove and clean the carb, get a new air filter, and spark plug. Once it's running a little smoother, I can check the output of the stator.

I reviewed many past threads about mufflers; for a new Toro replacement (which are terribly expensive), substitute mufflers, and stack mufflers. Has anyone tested their muffler noise level with a decibel meter? What registers as loud or quiet is in the ear of the beholder. 😊 The only way to judge sound is through a decibel meter. You can down load a free APP for your smart phone and do a test, which I did on 2 tractors. My 1989, 414-8, Magnum Kohler 14 hp with factory muffler which is in very good condition, registered 90 decibels at the operator seat. A new to me,1991, 312-h, Magnum Kohler 12 hp with a very rusty, factory muffler but with no holes, registered 95 decibels at the operator seat. I can tell It is louder than the 414. Curious as to what readings other Members are showing with stack mufflers or existing mufflers from the operator seat? Just how quiet is a new muffler, stack, substitute or factory? Thanks!

Friend used to joke that when he needed to do roots he'd rent a chainsaw

Great topic to consider. After years of loud equipment, mowers, chain saws, shooting etc. with no hearing protection I have a continuous ringing in my ears. I do nothing without protection now (70 next Mo) "We get old too quick and smart too late" Loud exhaust sounds great, but the results can be rather unpleasant.

Soon, soon

These older tractors are usually worn so they need drilled out anyway. I went 1/2" on my heims joints and bushed the eye down on them. The bigger heims joints are run $10 or $11 each.

Yesterday I repaired the bad wire connector at the regulator on my 520. Tried out my new ratcheting crimp connector tool. I got it for Christmas and this was my first attempt at using it. So far I'm impressed! One step closer to being back together! The bandaids are required from my attempt to help the wife in the kitchen. I unboxed her new knife set and attempted to remove my fingers in the process ..... All the more reason I should stay out of the kitchen! Thank you for the gift of you are reading this post. It was a very nice gesture, but not required. Your smiling face and companionship was all I really needed this year.

After reading the other responses I feel like I went the caveman (ugh hit with rock) method.

I see a market for these not only for WHs.

I agree with that as a general manner of principle but the ones I got do not have any way to be greased and claim that they are permanently greased and sealed. I was and still am skeptical of that to be completely honest but I checked them just two or three weeks ago and after a season and a half of harsh dirty usage they are just as tight now as they were when new. And also very inexpensive.

I think you should tell us some items and a price. Then you will quickly see if there is a market at that price level. Or make a poll like what could these things cost?

I think I could do these for about 40/pr. These particular ones were using the original tie rods that fell apart, drilled and tapped for 3/8" steel heim ends. Depending on the price of the 7/16 like @ebinmaine mentioned, that wouldnt be a problem either. Cold rolled steel bar stock of any size is available right here in town and affordable.

The infamous Wheel Horse anti-vibration rocker plate engine mount. One of the few design mistakes Wheel Horse made, It did nothing but add cost to new tractors and cost to remove it from old tractors. Oh, it may have shortened the life of the drive belts due to the constant flexing and twisting from the moving engine. The good news was, it only took WH a couple years to use up the rubber mounts and go back to solid mounting.

I’ll second that motion...

Modest or not Sir, your work is admirable.

Just WOW, that looks badass, thanks for sharing your project. How long did it take you to weld those 2 tanks?

Deliver 1st load firewood, 1988 Wheelhorse 520H.

You catch this one Green? @Greentored

Thanks so much guys! With the combined diagrams, I got her up and running!! Really appreciate it.

I would do a direct replacement, no problems with to much or to little fuel pressure.

Better photos after I painted it and put vinyl on it.

Please be careful. Some trees seem to have a mind of their own when attacked with a chain saw. I retired my chain saw this year. After cutting and burning wood for 55 years, I probably used up my "Nine Lives". Plus after taking blood thinners for 20 years, a small nick requires major first aid. I have enough wood stacked to heat my house for three more years, so that will take me to the age level 8. Then I will use oil. I hope it stays at the current price of $1.90/gallon.