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She’s all but done… barring an air box maintenance decal, parking brake rubber sleeve, new hood latches, and new shifter knobs… Gonna take her on a joy ride !

I hate to put this up amongst all these beautiful machines, but Pinkie did work this weekend and deserves some recognition...

Along with the tall chute snowthrower I recently picked up from @"Manic-Mechanic" came these 23-8.50's. I decided to put them on the 854 just cuz I like bigger tires. I repainted the rims and of course I then had to paint the fronts so they'd match. I found some Majic tire paint at Rural King and gave all four a coat.

Spread some lime yesterday with the 418-C and since it was nice out I decided to take the LSE out for a spin!

One of my babies got hitched today.......

Here’s one you don’t see everyday. 1973 no name 8 with a kohler and an 8 speed from factory…Fresh from the barn. I bought it sight unseen the weights where a surprise!

Thanks for the action shots Jim!! The end of this build is finally here. First lets take a look at then & now. Some more angles. The rear end is set up to take on rear implements. I always think that what's under the hood should look just as good as every thing else. A view of the cockpit. a Something that I was really happy to find and include on this build, the 53yr old tires that are in pretty good shape. Thanks for riding along with this rehabilitation. Now have about 6 or 7 months to decide which tractor of mine will under go rehab next winter. 753, 953, D160, Decisions, decisions. Thanks to @WHX?? for his help on the build. Thanks to @Vinylguy, @wheelhorseman & @76c12091520h for the restoration parts that they provide for us.

Seat time!

Oil changes for the C 105 and C 6.5 predator swap. (Still looking for the oil drain plug on the E 141… )

My favorite car? No doubt there!!! This is me and my honey - that I married and had the joy of her for 62 years! standing with my 1948 Ford coupe that I put a 265? chevy motor 3 carbs (as shown) , mild cam, dual exhaust, few other things (been so long I'm not sure of the 265 part! The small V8 chevy had at that time) Think I was 18 and was in1958. I cant believe I did that change over at 18 yrs old!!! And the thing would run really nice. Therefore, it is the one car that I wish I still had!! Kept seeing it sit in this yard with the right rear wheel off .... finally asked about and lady sez " oh, thats my sons and he wont get it fixed and I told him I was gonna sell it if he didnt" ---- so, I sez "I'll buy it, how much?" She sez would you give a hundred for it? Yep, bought it and found the rt rear brake cyl was leaking, went to parts store and bought 2 if the rubber cups for $1 and put it together and ---- TaDa!! I had me a really fine car. Low mileage, - was only 9-10 yrs old at that time.

I’m leaving it… hey, Tarheels came in second, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of… As far as I’m concerned, it’s done, except that I need to replace the air box maintenance decal, a rubber sleeve on the parking brake lever, get the correct shifter knobs ( I have 2 small ones and I believe the Hi-Lo is small and the regular shifter should be larger ). All these little things are on the way… Oh and I’m gonna order new rubber hood latches…

I wish I had my '66 GTO, lots of great memories associated with that car.

Okay friends husband and I brought home another mutilated mutation that I felt sorry for and wanted to fix…. Questions will it run?? Lol… what model for sure? So I believe it’s an 854 and would like feed back to confirm.. lots of stuff coming off… has the k181s tag on the engine! Two piece gas tank! So if my friends on here would agree or disagree I would be able to see how much I have been learning over the years!

I bought my first one in 1957. Paid $100 for a 1930 Dodge Brothers 4 door sedan. A flat head 6 with 3 on the floor with 37,000 miles on the meter. 19" wooden spoke wheels and was one of the first to have hydraulic brakes. It ran perfect, but the upholstery was rotten. I replaced the interior and added a radio and heater and had it ready to go when I got my drivers lisence a year later. I drove it daily and in parades. circa 1961 Me and the future Mrs. K Next one was a 1952 Chevy that I paid $60 for and was totaled by a DUI that didn't see a stop sign. Then there was a '48 merc, a '55 ford, a '57 Dodge, and finally the one I wish I had. '59 Ford rag top This was our honeymoon car in 1963. The newly weds with my neice.

I built this with a mish mash of spare parts

All: Please share your thoughts and memories on either the best car you had, or the one that got away, or both .... My best was a 1957 Chevy model 150. All black with the 235 six cylinder engine and 3 on the tree. Bought it for $40 as a running parts car for my 57 210. I had the car for 2 weeks at a friends house and after school every day went there to switch parts that were better than what I had - hood hinges, chrome trim, 1/3 of the rear bumper and so on. At the end of two weeks I put it in the local paper for $100 - two guys showed up at the same time and had a bidding war - I ended getting $125 for it. Why was it my best car - I never registered or insured it, never put gas in it, it never broke down on me, and I got all my parts and tripled my money! The one I wanted as a first car, but couldn't get was a 2-tone blue 57 Chevy 210 Wagon. It was at another friends house, abandoned by a former tenant. We only had a one car driveway and my father refused to let me park it where we kept the boat. My friend ended up buying it from the tenant for $50 and got it running. The elderly lady next door to him stopped driving and gave him her sweet low milage 1964ish Rambler American. The car needed a clutch (no easy job on those - it had an enclosed driveshaft - you had to unbolt the rear axle on the leaf springs and pull it back to get the transmission out) He bartered the wagon for all the clutch parts, I gave him a hand with that, but I was not very enthused about it. Bill

Put on the ags and weights to prepare for garden tilling...

Today I hooked the old girl to my 4x8 harbor freight trailer and filled it up with seat frames from our school bus project. The way I loaded the trailer it was really front heavy so I popped a couple wheelies, I have to dig my front receiver and weight mount out of storage to get some ballast over the front axle!

I've had a goodly share of cars an' trucks. Used to buy and sell for the heck of it. A few I'd get back if I could. REALLY had good luck with straight 6 engines of Ford and Chevy. Had a 81 Chevy 3/4 ton 2wd. 292. TH400 Auto. 4:56 rear axle. I did some exterior add-ons to the engine. Small 4 BBL carb. Bigger exhaust. An 89 Dodge Daytona C/S. Went like a bat outta hell for it's day. 0-60 was 7 seconds flat. Only American cars that would stay with were the Corvette, Mustang GT and Transam GTA. Nothing else. Found out just last year it was an ultra rare car. Oh well. 😀 Several Camaros. A few other trucks. I'm finally in a stage of life where I can afford to spend a couple extra dollars to get what I want, instead of what I need. I now have a truck I've wanted for many years. Still a project stage vehicle but should be up n runnin' again soon. 1986 Ford F250 HD. 300 straight 6. 4 speed manual transmission. 4:10 gears. I'll be doing a bunch of parts swapping to "make it my own".

No. 1 Why do you want to adjust them ? No. 2 You adjust them be grinding the end of the stem and sometimes the faces and seats. Unless there is an issue, LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!

First car: 61 Ford Falcon with the 170 6 popper. 3 on the tree. Glass bowl carb. Great heater which was handy when the driver's door window fell down and broke. Coil over shocks all the way around. Looked like a mini lift kit. Western Auto retread snows all the way around too. Loud freakin horn. That's about it Worst car 71 Chevy Vega; $50 car with a $150 air cleaner. Quart of oil every 100 miles. Close 2nd 84 Dodge Rampage Coolest: 73 Chevy C-10 "Easter Egg Truck 4 different colors Favorite Tie 2 69 Chevy Caprices One a 350 and one with a 327. Both quadrajets and dual exhaust. Would feel like riding on air at 80 mph! Honorable mention: 89 Olds 88

I had an 87 ranger 4x4. First truck, beat the crap out of it. I traded it in had 296k. No motor work was ever done to it besides maintenance. That little V6 ran strong no oil burn. My sister had a 99 Honda Civic. The only car I ever seen that could run without oil in it. I think it only held 3 qts. Many times I put 3 into it. She drove that up down the east coast. Even got a few grand when that got traded in

Here's my burb'. A nice place for my fake chickens to roost! .

That is some purdy work! I did tinker a little after mowing for 3 hours... My hydro control linkage had come loose. Acted very much like the hydro was going out. I was very happy to find a loose locknut on my Pinkie 520-H.

He does exemplary work! Customs even more so!

Putting around and got old rusty (Kind of like a Covid Project) in the shop for a few finishing touches. Before After

I was never a car man. Motorcycles were my thing. At a rough guess 40 something passed through my hands. My favorite I suppose would be the '86 Yamaha FZ 1000. Practically a racer with lights. Could hit 160mph. Not that I did that very often. Things tended to get a bit blurred. Did have a dual seat, but for some reason SWMBO would never ride pillion. Can't think why.

That's a tough line to draw. Yes, you can get more fluid weight in wider tires. But... Sometimes having wider tires isn't an advantage because the weight is spread out more. Think of traction as friction. Friction is basically pounds per square inch.

That thing is sweet Bob! I wanna cut that tall grass in the background with it !!

I put the Suburban out by the chicken coop just to see how it looked there. I was thinking about fixing it up but it was going to need an engine, another transmission or the one it had rebuilt. (Sat full of water) gas tank and the control cables. My wife came home and said it looked cute there. That decided it!

Is that PBR can a coil holder?

I used chrome tape in my FILs Charger, with LEDs. Worked great! Makes you wonder what the old incandescent lights were even for, because they are about 1/4 as bright as LEDs.

Now this is rolling baby!

The center terminal of your regulator should be 12 volts DC with the ignition key on, without battery voltage the regulator won't work. The voltage on the two outer terminals with the engine running at high RPMs should be 36 volts AC +/- between the two outer terminals, not to ground

Here’s my yard art… goes in at night…

I got some paint on today and mounted to the tractor.

I think the one I had the most fun with was a 63 plymouth valiant. transplanted 225 slant 6, 3 speed on tree. Had it during the racing years for the guy I worked for and of course we had a connection with the Mopar Direct Connection guys. Scavenged the junk yards and ended up with a 4:10 Posi rear, aluminum trans, big 2 bbl carb. electronic ignition. Updated the clutch and put the shifter in the floor. Had a grey primer paint job looked real bad. I could smoke m in all three. Picked off a few small block Novas As in true mopar fashion, front frame rail rusted out and the top a arm came loose had to drive it home in reverse 3 miles cause when I went forward the right front wheel would push back into the fender.

Can I at least enjoy her for a little while clean ?

I've got a 603 in realy rough shape except for the steering wheel, the boot stirrups, the old style front wheels and the rear General tires. Awhile back I was driving up my drive way and my wife, my daughter, and her boyfriend were dragging it to the front yard. She said was thinking of making it yard art, I told her that thing is worth some money. they all three looked at it and then at me and started laughing. She said the things been sitting outside your shop for at least two years, I told her when I get the stuff that worth money off she can have it. That was two years ago, she keeps eyeing it, but I got it chained down not sure I can trust her, we've only been married 48 years.

The deal is Wheel Horse bearing and seal numbers do not cross on anybody's list at an automotive store. Once you have the SKF or Torrington/KOYO number, you can cross that to whatever is out there...National, etc. There is a thinking that double seals are a bad thing. Reason is, the outer seal does not get lubed and can wear in the axle or shaft.

Alcohol injection system… Kinda like nitrous but, not…

Them chickens came close to spending the winter with @stevasaurus's flamingo in Elgin.

If ya held a paper right in front of them near the hood you just about make out the printing. 😀

FYI for anyone interested. At the Raitt Homestead Farm Museum 2077 State Rd Route 236 Eliot Maine on Friday July 29 th and Saturday the 30 th.

Gave the C121 a bit of a workout today. Rolled about an acre and a half just to see if it would pull two at the same time. I ended up with three, the 4ft vintage flat roll, the 4ft vintage “Heavy” Cambridge roll, and my homemade flat roll made from an old oxygen cylinder! Even where the ground was really soft and wet I still had traction, (underground spring), grass is always lush, even in a heatwave! Jane videoed me at one point, then it was her turn! I was w.o.t. In 1st high, Jane was w.o.t. In 2nd low. I still have another 3ft Cambridge roll I could add to the “Train”, but reversing would be a b***h! 2B9BFF93-13C7-4090-BB6E-BB10792087BD.MOV

Around '86 when I got my first horse I went to Toro dealers in hopes of finding parts for a '67. They always had a couple of shiney 3, 4 or 500 series setting ther so I know what a tractor like those looked like new. Never knew what a 50, 60's or even 70's tractor looked like new. I have now. As usual pictures don't do it justice but other than stainless hardware and some lighting up grades this one looks like it was just uncrated from South Bend.

That was my first thought as well. Put one of the ammeter wires on the post of the other. This bypasses the ammeter. Also, We used to have a saying. You can't effectively do diagnostics until you do all maintenance. I agree that it's more likely electric. It's important to remember that these tractors use a DC system. Direct Current. A bad ground means a bad or no circuit. You'll want to remove, clean and reinstall the ends of ALL the wires and eliminate the possibility of an intermittent open circuit.

I have been replacing mechanical fuel pumps with electric whenever a problem is encountered. If the diaphragm goes bad on a mechanical pump it can allow gasoline to get into the crankcase and ruin your engine.

The SBC powered Case tractor pictured was very impressive until I laid on the ground to see how the power was transmitted to the rear axle, What i saw was no bell housing cover and absolutely nothing connected to the rear of the crankshaft. Made me scratch my head. I then noticed the long hydraulic lines between the power steering pump and the hydraulic motor on the transaxle.