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Brought this old girl home yesterday, found her for a dear family friend. She will spend a little time here until she & all her attachments have a clean bill of health, then off to her new home for work duty in the garden & yard.

I purchased this tractor from Bob Ellison. First of all I want to thank Bob for giving me this opportunity. After picking it up on Tuesday I knew it truly was one of his kids. Just know I will take tremendously good care of it. The machine itself looks to be in very good mechanically order. A few little knick knacks, nothing major to complete it. Gas line from tank to fuel pump leaks a bit and it sometimes slips out of neutral and surges usually in reverse. Any ideas with that will be greatly appreciated. Over all I’m tickled pink. I do plan on swapping the seat out with a WH seat of that era. Also putting a proper hitch on it to pull my chipper and trailers around.

Picked up some new Kohler and Briggs parts at the auction today. This will be coming to the Show. I ran this up, but an Amish fellow had deeper pockets. It sold for $725.

Met Don @Handy Donand his Grandson Samuel today. Got him a transaxle drive pulley for his 854, a 48" snowplow, weights and chains for his sons 310-8 , and some 36" gear drive decks so he can build one to put on the 854. He plans on being at the big show... Tony

I considered that myself, but this is how the service bulletin suggested as the fix. Today I repaired a loose steering arm with the same process. Put a newer pepper pot muffler on and that takes care of the things that needed attention. Then gave it a MMO rubdown, really improved the appearance. I replaced the seat with the style that was originally on it. Now just have to paint the wheels.

I use mine with a 42 SD on a c-141. works well for walking path maintenance and getting under low hanging stuff. Turning radius however matches the Queen Mary

I have a couple spaces available on the bucket trailer Mike. And now offering FREE DELIVERY.

completed the tear down one side was dry the other side still had some oil

Bob, you may not be there in person, but your legacy follows you there. I have two of your beautiful seats that will be there. We will miss you. Bob

We should have a new member soon, I brought her with me to go get it, her first russlin' trip. Pretty sure she's been bitten...

Today, I replaced the axle seal & idler pulley along with put a new drive belt on my 314-8. After that I finished up running quick disconnect battery cables to the rear hitch.

It's been there. Few years ago they moved a guy because he had 4-5 tables full of stuff and stuff on the ground spewed all over which was enough room for 3 other people to set up for their multiple tractor displays. You shouldn't have a problem doing that as long as the "2 things to sell" aren't 2 truckloads of parts! LoL It is enforced to a certain degree just to try and keep the display area the display area and the vendor section in the back. They seem to understand quite a few people with displays also have some things to sell otherwise the display field would be half empty and the vendor section would be packed with displays. You can leave anything at my spot if there's an issue. Stevebo usually leaves a few things with us and some others do to. Uh Oh, now I quit! No wrenching, no drinking gas? WTF am I gonna do now?

Looks to me that the starter is turning but the belt isn’t…. Try adjusting the belt tighter! Just all I see in video…🤷🏻‍♀️

New speed limit pacesetter vehicle: gotta get @Vinylguy to do some stealth stickers and it’ll be all set…

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for the help so far. Sorry about the link. I’m a newbie to this site and didn’t realize it wouldn’t work for a lot of people. I appreciate everyone trying to help!! Going to try a couple things today and hopefully get this solved. Wish me luck!

No problem using synthetic many of us use Mobil 1. Suggested filter is Wixx 51410

That is what is causing the majority of the price increases, speculators outbidding one-another until things get edgy and then everyone who has "Futures" is left holding the bag. This is nothing new. Here is today's Economics 101 lesson. Dutch Tulip Bulb Market Bubble What Was the Dutch Tulip Bulb Market Bubble? The Dutch tulip bulb market bubble, also known as 'tulipmania' was one of the most famous market bubbles and crashes of all time. It occurred in Holland during the early to mid-1600s when speculation drove the value of tulip bulbs to extremes. At the height of the market, the rarest tulip bulbs traded for as much as six times the average person's annual salary. Today, the tulipmania serves as a parable for the pitfalls that excessive greed and speculation can lead to.

This works well in my case, but a much different tractor and frame. Those are steel plates approximately 3/8 thick

Any 10W-30 motor oil will be fine. I use Castrol semi-synthetic High Mileage oil and can tell a difference.

Some of the guys here report better cold weather operation with synthetic so that's what I run in my snow tractors. Not sure if it helps but can't hurt.

A 520H is a hydrostatic drive transmission. The hydraulic oil also lubricates the axles, 20w-50 is too thick for the system to work properly. The correct oil recommended by is 10w-30.

Make sure the engine turns by hand. Belt is slipping and doesn't look to be in the best shape. Generator isn't even grunting so the belt isn't gripping at all. A good belt would be Napa 25-7320 rubber raw edged cogged belt

I also would thank all, who was involved, to release us from A.H. plans. That was the main reason i can grow in Freedom. so thanks to all who‘s served. In deepest honest. It appears it be we have an idiot here close aside, that keeps us permanently reminded to that. can be compared to A.H. Because of similar mindset. He is about 700km far, That f**** idiot begins a War in 2022. Luckily he is not very good and his soldiers they blamed themselves hardly. i learned from my Grandpa i have just 3 responsibilities never again such a madness, Resist the beginnings Fight for your Rights and freedom. So Mr. Putin - i be prepared.

ALL days are wheel'n deal'n days down there.

Yeah that is interesting, the original bracket is bolted on upsidedown & backwards, & the seat has a bracket bolted on top of that, Lol. Don't know what it come off originally...

Always glad to hear that another person has been bitten by the incurable Wheel Horse bug! Is there a foot-rest with the reclining seat?

Ed you might have to move into one of those buildings! Nice haul!

Removed yet another pile of trash off my Senior today!

I thought that was always the rule but no one enforced it. But I could be wrong, its happened before...

Sounds like a neutral adjustment is in order and also you may want to adjust the tension on the motion control

The New Green Deal is working. Close down the oil and gas wells and fire up the nuke plants. Gotta dig my old TMI(Three Mile Island) stocks out of long term storage........I may have a windfall.

@BOB ELLISON Having texted back and forth with @Rob J. a few times I'm pretty confident your tractor has a fantastic new steward. Excellent machine Rob. Super happy for you.

I had the same problem, but realized that a larger hole in the lower steering shaft would leave less metal at the point of contact. I had seen that later tractors have this joint welded so that became my inaugural use of my new welder. No wiggle.

We do live out of city limits a little ways. Tucked away between some farm lands and woods. The county we are in, a permit for what I am doing is just over $300. Soon, our son will start his house on the land in front of us. If they come out to survey and see that there is a barn on the property that wasn’t there and not on the books, it’s double the permit fee for working without one. So I thought I would do it the right way. If I had known over two months later I would still be waiting…… all my stuff would be under shelter already.

This is what Eaton Calls for in their manual for oils. I prefer the antiwear oil like International HyTran. Matches the application for wear/shear additives. It is 10W30 viscosity. But keep in mind, 10w-30 motor oil has worked for years.

Day #4 and my little buddy is back at it.

Both my parents served during WWII, Dad was in North Africa and later stationed in England, Mom was in the Women's Air Corps stationed in Texas.

They typically allow people to sell tractors and a few to several items along with their displays on the infield but they don't want people setting up a big shop there with tons of stuff taking up display area space, which makes sense. Otherwise all of the big vendors would be set up at the front corner entrance area near the food building where you guys set up and the displays would be scattered in the back all over the place. I can't speak for the WHCC but that's what I see every year. Pretty sure that same rule has always been there and it's not something new.

I bought one of the ‘cheepo’ ones off ‘the bay’, for my Raider 10. I am going to mill the fins down and a computer cpu heat sink, clamping the two together using the regulator mounting holes, + thermal grease between. This because these reg’s are meant to be in a forced airflow. Only costs a few £’s, so not much lost if it doesn’t work. (Pics to follow). Doug. pics as promised.

Another "interesting" item on this tractor, not sure if it's true or not but sure would be cool if it was...

Do you need a belt guard? I believe I have one…

Nice tractor and package find for sure! She'll be pretty spoiled right of the gate with that setup! Good grab

Kind of like a full size 4 door pickup with an 8 foot bed....

Well, what we will prove in this thread is that anything is possible. You may indeed have to have an adapter plate if you plan to use the PTO function just to get everything aligned... as the bigger your engine, the more "real estate' it uses for mounting... and the harder it is to get the engine pulley in line with the transmission pulley. I certainly recommend investing in VERY strong bolts for any engine swap, such as grade 8... and ALWAYS using lock washers, locknuts, and locktite wherever possible. A different sized belt is another thing you may need. It isn't impossible that you have to modify the hood in some way as well. That completely depends on the model. Don

June 6, 2022 is the 78th Anniversary of the D Day invasion that turned the tide of World War Two. Never forget the sacrifices that these brave veterans made to ensure the freedom of people all over the world. German solders also died in an attempt to carry out the wishes of Adolph Hitler. During the Battle of Normandy over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing. This figure includes around 210,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 killed amongst the ground forces and a further 16,000 deaths amongst the Allied air forces.

The city code enforcement guy hates us! LOL Were within a stone throw of the city limit line. While we like to keep our stuff up, we do it on our terms not cuz some barney fife wanna be felt like flexing his gums! Catherine considers it a public service to help folks challenge the guy in court. He tends to target folks who he can intimidate like the elderly. Heres an idea...offer help and solutions not outrageous fines for folks who already cant afford them.

My wife and I visited Normandy for the 75th in 2019. Indescribable. This past Easter we led a group of H.S. students back there as part of a larger UK/France tour. The impact for them is not the same, of course, it's kinda ancient history for 15-18 year olds, but with the Ukraine invasion in the background, they did, I think, sense the scale and gravity of that event. One day we met with a Frenchman who was a boy in '44 and still lives on his family's farm a mile or so inland from the beaches. He had pictures of the farm's buildings being used by both German and Allied forces and in his yard is a memorial erected by a US Army unit a couple weeks after D-Day that the family still tends.