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No work on WheelHorse today but my son put WheelHorse stuff on his school folder! This is what I truly enjoy about this group. Everyone is willing to help out! Thanks @Vinylguy

Loaded the whole family up (those that run and drive any way) for a weekend vacation at the first Pickett garden tractor show.

Much better example

This morning I blew apart the most complicated W-H seat known to mankind. Better bring your A-game because these things come ready to fight.

No way..Them church lady cooks would probably throw hot chicken corn soup at me.

Ed, just think of all the five gallon buckets of parts you could put on that thing. You could drive around the Big Show with your mobile parts vendor table and get to see everything on the grounds while making sales.

Cause he could.

So you can drive yourself to drink...

Coolest kid in school

It might make a good puller. Easy on weights.

For Sale near me.

My turn!

I discovered more proof here today... this poor thing really needs me. 🙈 A fluids change and the removal of the engine tins is scheduled for tomorrow.

Because we can’t think of one single reason not to!

Was Staples all out of RED folders ???? Wheel Horse stickers on JD Yellow folder < sigh> well at least it wasnt a green folder. You know I am only teasing !! Nice of Terry to send out the decals.

Deck triage day. Turns out the spindle bearings are fine, a little noisy but they spin freely and have no play so I'm leaving them alone. IDK if it's possible to over grease these spindles, but when I see a grease zerk and a weep hole I fill till it comes out. The deck tensioner bar was pretty loose and beat up. The slots were a bit egged out and the bolts were worn but the idler was ok. Luckily I had a spare bar, bolts, and those plastic washers and it all went in without issue and is much tighter. So glad my tractors came with multiple boxes of spare parts! I can't wait to mow with it again and see if this smooths it out.

Been working on a K301, that broke a rod, from a late 60s Raider. Honed the cylinder, lapped the valves and reinstalled them. You know Advance Auto will let you borrow (gotta leave an $88 deposit), for 45 days a spring compressor tool. Deposit refunded when you bring it back. Those keepers set a little bit of fun to get back in. A little dab of grease will do ya. Anyway reset the gaps and cleaned up and flattened the head on some 600 grit paper. Gonna measure the cylinder bore and crank journal tomorrow. Hope to order parts so I can get it back together soon.

My C-81 which I use with a finger bar, has decided not to engage low box. Had a chat with our resident trans guru, Stevasaurus, and Squonk. The general consensus was a broken selector fork. Today I decided to remove the trans. I'd already removed the finger bar. This morning front end was jacked up left for the oil to drain. This afternoon started on removing the trans. Progress at end of play. I was pleased to find the hubs slid of easily with a little light help from a three legged puller. The drive pulley like wise. When the hubs had been fitted, the shafts had had a smear of oil. The trans is now propped up on end to drain any oil left in. I'm not going to give a blow by blow account, as a full rebuild is already cover by Stevasaurus in tutorials.

Different tractor, same loader.

next....

The one was the 312-8 that I recently rigged for a snow plow and gave to my son. The tranny seemed to function fine, but there was about a 1/8" vertical play in the hi/lo shifter shaft and you had to lift it to be able to shift. I actually remover the shift lever and installed a spacer under the lever to keep the shaft in the up position. Now it shifts easily. The other 8 speed that did this same thing was too many moons ago and has long since been deleted from my memory data bank. I am not familiar with the innards of these trannys like you so I don't have a clue why or how this can happen. Does it make cents to you? or scents or sense? You can see the spacer under the hi/lo shifter. And that boot repair was by the PO ...not me.

Mrs. 8ntruck says "for the love of God, WHY?"

Maybe we need to build one out of the trailer… line the outsides with coolers.. and you’ve got redneck hay rides!

I really need to re-string the lights

I only buy hydros.

Here we go, post em up.

With all this heat and humidity I thought this may cool you off some. Winter 420 LSE picture on a trail ride.

Yes, I dug it out!

Free soup

Yes, it makes since to me. You just took the slack out of that shifter for up and down. Not a bad idea if that is what is happening, but by lifting the shifter a little, you made the shifter work easier because it was more in line with what that shifter does. Watch this and see if seeing how that shifter works doesn't explain what adding that washer did. The thing to see, is that the shift lever moves that fork up and down by turning it from one side to the other. your washer took out the slack. @Racinbob did the same thing with the input shaft on 3 speed transmissions to try to take the slop out of 3rd gear popping out of gear.

Here’s one!

Parade pictures, @WHX?? noe go back to work. Shoulda, coulda wawawawawa

Seing that passing by on the highway... looks mighty No work an the horses today.. Got to watch a movie our local tv is broadcasting tonight: "The Strait Story" (it's the wrong brand ik know).

Kevin: You are one state away from the motherload of used RV parts and appliances , etc. Elkhart , Indiana has a number of used RV parts sellers and salvage yards. https://www.rverscorner.com/indiana.html

I love the smell of gear oil in the morning! It smells like.............................................like gear oil!

Think it was mentioned keep an eye out for newer model RV's that got damaged. and totaled by insurance co. Might be lots of cheap savable stuff on one.... tanks, controls, appliances etc.....

@WHX?? the camp Nazi stopped by and was wondering when your showing up??

Best get yer main man a baseball bat @TonyToro. Gonna need it to keep them girls off him they see that folder! Ah the days of back to school shopping for my boy! Entry in the ungly seat contest is my guess....

Maybe even sell hot dogs off it???

If the seals are plastic, you can pull the inside seals out and expose the bearings. Then using the grease fittings will keep them in good shape literally for decades. Sealed bearings are nice in that there is no maintenance, but they tend to have such a small amount of grease that they dry out pretty fast. Today's mentality on most everything is throw away or recycle every few years. That doesn't fit so well on 40-50 year old machines.

Not sure if that’s pc talk any longer Squnky!

Use the gas tank to fire your grille also

5 pages of joking aside, this bus as a toy hauler is kind of sadly becoming a reality. We have had an actual toy hauler on order, since February. Since then, it’s been delayed from May to August, then September, then our SIGNED CONTRACT order form for $53,995 somehow became null and the dealer demanded an extra $10,000 to confirm with the manufacturer to build it. I wish I could understand how legal binding contracts can now be understood as simply an assumption now that “there was a pandemic.” Grr. On top of that, the soonest they can guess delivery is November 3 but likely later. It’s ok folks, they swear they haven’t made any interest on my hard earned dollars in 6 months! Well, after barking up the tree at the dealer, then them voluntarily cancelling my order with KZ, it sounds like our dream Sportster 353TH13 has become a nightmare. Well, a cancelled nightmare. We placed a $7,500 deposit on the camper to place the order, so that’s on the way back to us. KZ RV and Veurinks RV center can both kiss my sweaty behind. Ultimately, I believe that $7,500 and my sweat equity can make this bus into one sweet ride. If that’s the case, we’ll have a totally paid off skoolie toy hauler and then we’ll decide if we should keep or sell our current camper for non-tractor events. I have a few odds and end jobs to finish here and there, then a fairly blank slate for fall and winter. Stay tuned, tractor projects might have to take a rain check for a while, but they’ll get to shows in style hopefully by next spring! Let project “Rivet” officially begin soon! Maybe we’ll have a race to see which Collossus project finishes first! For reference, here is a nice walk through video of what we were hoping for, and a floor plan. I’d like to see how close to this I can get, maybe even with slide outs! I’ll be shopping at the surplus RV stores near the Michigan/Indiana border, maybe even for air over hydraulic landing gear, slide outs, and whatnot.

Thank you for the kind comments. They are sincerely appreciated. Indulge me and allow me to talk a little bit about it in order to explain what is going on with and on it. Design changed a bit on the front compared to what I had originally drawn. Reasons for that are various. One is that as I look at it more and more when I transfer design onto it, certain things just don’t “ flow” correctly as I look at it more and more. There are no two identical yokes so there is no tried and true design. It’s all up to the individual’s taste ,intent and of course capability. Most of what is carved on them although obviously decorative in nature , more importantly has personal and cultural meanings specially in the yoke’s main focal areas. It is important to stick to that criteria and avoid introducing totally random foreign motifs into them. This one is a bit of a challenge. It will be totally unique compared to most. In honor of all that influenced me in this type of work I am trying to incorporate on it elements of design and style from several individuals. Not an easy task to make all different styles blend together in harmony keeping in mind that I also need to make it “mine”. Lastly the wood itself has a lot of bearing on deciding what is carved on them. Hence the most important reason for me to do the backs first. One would reason that the front should be done first and then the less important back after. I think differently. Doing the back first allows me to learn what this piece of wood “allows”to be carved into it. Not all pieces of wood are conducive to carve anything into them. Depending on the grain some are more forgiving than others to certain details carved into them. Now that I am intimately familiar with it I know what I can get away with or not on front. That also prompted some of the changes. One needs to know exactly what one is working with or the results will be less than predictable. To my knowledge only two individuals ever carved the backs as throughly and intricately as the front ,I being one , the other long gone and the biggest and most important inspiration and influence in my work. Making these to me is not work, but rather a totally relaxing almost meditating time as I work on them. It is a sort of right of passage and hopefully inspiration for some after me to continue it or in the very least tell the story behind them.

Gots to go get the farm handy for a ride around! Give my regards to the camp nazi!

@pullstart Here you go!