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I bought this at an estate sale for $20.00. It had a bad cup/ bearing race holder to the shaft. I used 1" id thin washers to take up the slack. I cannot Rember the name of these washer. Thrust? I still have to buy locking couplers for both ends. First picks the day I bought it then today on the end. I had all the Regal red taking up space.

I'm not trying to say harbor freight engines are the best. I will go as far to say that for the money they are worth thinking about. I got one brand new on sale for 99 bucks shipped to my house. When I did the Lambert project 99 bucks into its original engine would not have gotten it running again. I was happy to make the swap and put the time and money in other areas. Like rims... tires... seat.... etc.

Never know where an engine might have to go. But if and when it does it will be nice and secure and not just thrown in the back of the truck. Also works as just a place to put an engine so it out of the way on wheels and not cluttering up the garage floor. Plus it works awesome as a mobile workbench. Too old to crawl around on the ground on my hands and knees.

The process continues!!

Got the new Carlisle Ags mounted up and put on the GT-1848: Oh yeah, and while I was at it I got some 7/16" 20 1-1/2" bolts, and nuts. Put 2 on each side, threaded through from the inside of the hub to act as studs. Made putting the wheels on much easier! Tapered the nuts on the bench grinder.

I got my new clutch plate for the 718-z from K and B Horse parts. Part was much better than others I had found. I think previous owners got all the life out of the clutch, metal to metal and starting to grind clutch mounting bolts. Much better engagement of blades now. Did some cleaning, greasing and oiling. While it was apart, I finished adding alternator as well.

Kaylee wanted a wagon ride before tomorrow's junior pulling event out in Riverhead NY. So my wife went for a stroll down the block 20220730_180016.mp4

I had a new and more appropriate pair of shoes here waiting for me to get around to changing anyway, so I picked up a piece of 3/4" round stock and got it back in service. Much better

Cut the yard… terribly thick after two weeks… had to blow the piles away to a few bare spots to maybe get some grass started there. Now for a cold one…

With all possible due respect. That is purely incorrect. It's never too late to start taking appropriate care of your self and those around you. Use an appropriate mask an area ventilation.

Trina and her mom have been working on making a nice cleared area in the forest path for her daughter's wedding coming up here in 2 weeks. She made an arch for the bride and groom to stand in/under for the vows ceremony. After the vows the whole shebang moves down by the garden area where Trina's been working on clearing and flattening the ground. We'll have 2 pop-up tents that are 10 x 30 each with tarps on the ground as "flooring". I started out the morning working on clearing a new place for the Wheelhorses-in-progress and parts pile. The old line is in the way of the new building excavation area. After about 45 minutes to an hour I got in a match with some small ground yellow jackets. At first it was bees, 6. Me 2. I got stung at least 6 times but I killed 2 of the jerks. Well after the Trina put some stung stuff and baking soda paste on I went back out... Armed with 3 cans of brake cleaner. I done commenced to nest wide elimination. I covered the hole with a rock and sprayed a healthy dose down it. Then just set and waited for returning jerks 🐝 to spray them. Within the first ½ hour I killed over 40 of them. Throughout the rest of today my 🐝 death count is some over 50 total.

back in 2017 i got my 701 lol ummmmmm i will let the pictures do the talking......

A reasonable offer is one that both the seller and buyer agree on. Decide you much you think it is worth, then keep an open mind when offers come in. If no offers come in, rethink how much you think it is worth. Good luck.

Kinda like this one @davem1111? If you don't bolt that sucker down real good and have a brush and a bowl of dawn for the bead you might oughta just tell the kids to go in the house until you're done...that being said, mine does well enough to tolerate it and keep it around.

Hope you were wearing an appropriate mask…?

Neighbor Ralph finally asked me to install the snow plow I got for him a year ago. Along with chains. Figured today isn't too hot so I walk over to get it and it's dead. Has a funky 5 year old battery that I think was for aircraft use. Push it to the garage and the battery still has 170 CCA on it. So I get checking. Tractor had some unscheduled rewiring from a previous owner but all the safety's are hooked up still. Not getting power to the key switch. Found the main power wire from the solenoid to all the switches toasted. Had to remove the gas tank, tank tray and cut open the entire harness to find the various pinched wires and replace everything. A 1 hour job turned into 3.

We’ll here’s the new exhaust setup ... I bought 3/4” cast iron pipe fittings from Home Depot . I wrapped all the threads with Teflon tape. Just waiting for the new muffler from Amazon . Should I put an exhaust hanger somewhere? Also , I swapped the tires so the treads are going in the right direction now !

Had some free time today to make the exhaust then started her up and started heat cycling.

I picked up the C series today mainly got it for the plow didn't realize the rear fender was fiberglass. The frame must be cracked too was able to "flex" the engine side to side a bit.. more than likely going to strip down and part out the handle is frozen for foward reverse.

I understand the concern. I watched my Dad drive the riding mower too close to the edge of the pond at the camp. Lost traction on the wet weeds and slid right in. The machine was fully submerged and stalled trying to inhale water but we took it to the repair shop and, surprisingly, it didn't take much to get it working again. Of course we NEVER let him forget the episode!

I love HF but will never swap a Chinese motor in a Wheelhorse. I might do a Lombardini diesel possibly one day. 😉

Today I got a harbor frieght roll pin set that @wallfish told me to get for my rjs steering

Today we went to Carlisle so I could renew my seafarers medical certificate. After being passed fit for another 2 years work we carried on to a little town on the coast called Silloth. A guy there brought the last of my little 4.7hp Robin diesels, so we dropped it off while in the area. Lovely little town and great guy. He showed me the renovation work they are doing to an old house there, always interested in seeing this sort of stuff.

No, I should have bought that one but I was on a road trip at the time and the car was too full already. The one I got looks like this: It's supposed to go up to 12" rims but I think only for light-duty stuff. The beads on these Carlisles did not want to cooperate. If I had more good tire spoons and about 4 more arms, it may have worked. I may box this one back up and exchange it. I bolted mine to my workbench, which was a bit of a pain because I had to stand on a stool to get leverage at times. I have a concrete slab floor so I think I may get the bigger machine and put anchors in the floor. Can't wait to hear about it!

To be honest, looking at that trailer, I wouldn't even think of carrying an adult never mind several children on it. Gross incompetence and stupidity.

I clamp mine in the bench vice. Never used the base that comes with it. Works way better that way.

I got a cheap tire machine from HF and got the old ones off, but putting the new ones on was generating a lot of four-letter words, so I took them to Belle Tire and they mounted them for $10 each. Can't complain about that.

Check all the Vee pulleys for a stone or twig wedged deep in the vee. PTO, Mule, and Deck pulleys.

I have a very similar trailer and have done the same modification. Excellent upgrade.

I think that is my all time favorite Red Square tractor. I love the colors, and the color scheme. If it's not going to be red. THIS is what it should be !

It's alive 20220730_134917.mp4

Very neat work, but may I ask why you needed an engine box?

Strays will return to the nest at sundown and rebuild the nest over time. In our bout it was yellow jackets 3, Don 0 -- the next door neighbors had had a couple stings, too, but couldn't find the nest--it was in the ground in a border planting between our two yards. We had a pro come over (part of our annual extermination management service). Wearing a bee suit, he opened the entrance a bit and then injected a powder into the nest that sticks to the bees going in and out. Next day, no live bees but a lot of corpses. We have a garden full of plantings deliberately attractive to butterflies (lots of Monarchs and Viceroys lately!) and honey bees but hornets, yellow jackets, wasps, and carpenter bees are non-grata.

If you plan to use a rear slot or sleeve hitch (tiller, soil plow, cultivator, etc.) you'll need to replace that. They come as a complete unit with the cable, the housing, clevises, and ball-ends swaged onto cable to secure the clevises. About $35-40 (?) NOS from K&B Horse Parts, a supporting vendor of this site--there are a couple of different lengths so be sure to get the part number you need. I've seen member-made cables but, to me, it's worth getting the factory item to be really sure of the construction since they carry a lot of force.

Put all new discs and pads on ye olde Volvo. Still had everything original on it after 160.000km or 100.000 miles. Now ready for the next 160k. And yes I know it could use a wash Not too bad looking. Pads were gone, discs had a little lip but not terrible. Bad picture but that is sound deadening or padding inside the tunnel where the driveshaft comes out of the gearbox and pokes out to the wheel. No wonder it's so quiet All done. Only thing left is to drive 200 km or 125 miles to 'break in' the pads and discs as per instructions from Brembo.

That’s the sleeve for the lift cable. A 3/16” cable goes through that from the lift arm to the rear sleeve hitch.

Yeah I’d prefer keeping the Briggs and Stratton in it that grandpa Reese put in it when he was alive

It would be worth the afternoon of troubleshooting the Briggs, then deciding on an engine replacement if needed

I’m using drop in anchors for the big guy. Sorry for my video skills or lack there of, I think you can get the idea tho. IMG_6102.MOV

Found this at a Stens dealer in Canada https://www.bantasaw.com/catalog/viewproduct.asp?i=&p=190

I do both. Our HF changer is bolted into the floor joists of the outdoor workshop. Works very well for the most part. The Carlisle Trupower AGs I bought are commercial grade. I didn't even consider trying to install them. I could have invented some neat new vernacular though....

What I've seen more often than not is the fuel level sensor is where most rust and trash come from. Also, all newer replacement valves do not have the filter screen anymore. An inline filter works fine, and lets you see any filtered particulates.

Hummmm well this might take a bit BUT. I had tried to find a Wheel Horse that was sold by my local dealer the year they opened up (1961) and one day a guy contacted me that he had an old Suburban series Wheel Horse that original sold at my dealer. And he talked the Wheel Horse up good! Yes, I was excited and loaded up the trailer and made the long drive out of town to get what I had wanted. Upon arrival I saw the trip was a waste of time, now the Wheel Horse was a 1961 Suburban but with many modifications. The engine was a huge Briggs and Stratton that required most of the hood to be cut away and I could have delt with that but the seat .... well let's just say that there is a kid's elementary school cafeteria that is missing a fiberglass chair! That seat was a "nope" on the deal to me. Another odd ball deal was what came with the 1964 model 704 I bought up in mountains on the other side of the state from me. The seller said, "This snowplow goes with the deal, ya' gotta take it too". Now this snowplow just looked home built but an extremely well-done job. The paint was great looking on the snowplow even the right color, but the dang thing just didn't look like any Wheel Horse snowplow I had ever seen. all the way home I kept thinking that I just need to dump this snowplow off someplace because if ain't Wheel Horse it ain't coming to my house! Now ya' know I just could not dump that snowplow off somewhere that just is not right, and it's good thing I didn't because it was a super hard to find factory BD-42-71 Dozer blade for the 1961 Wheel Horse model 701! This last story was a deal of a lifetime. I get a guy that called me about fixing the starter motor on his P.O.C. MTD lawn mower. Once at the guy's house I see he has a GT-14 in pieces and there is an Ark 500 front end loader sitting off to the side of the disassembled GT-14. The guy tells me you fix my starter motor and I will give the GT-14 with the loader. Now this guy had already removed the starter, so I didn't even have to do diagnostics on the job. The starter gets rebuilt, and I install it for him ..... now it all sounds good, but the starter still did not work. OK so now had to diagnose the problem and all the MTD need was the ground for the starter repaired. A simple fix with 2 eyelets and 6 inches of #10-gauge wire! The total deal for rebuilding the starter cost me $42.00 and I got a parts GT-14 and an Ark 500 loader, a few weeks later I bought a good running GT-14 for $400.00 and mounted the loader to it. Wild Bill in Richmond VA

31 years with 520H tractors and not one case of fuel valve problems. Take the tank off and clean it properly, then use gas from a fuel can that also was cleaned properly.

I paid.

This is the business card I designed in Aug 2020 when I opened my shop....maybe it was destiny to own a Wheelhorse.....or 2.....3...lol

Yes. If I use mine, it's bolted in the vise.

Just finished install of new auto level systems on both of the big printers. Now maybe i can finally get the layers to smooth out for the GT14 dash! Command G29 and the probe double taps 9 different points on the bed and creates a virtual map of the bed correcting for variances in the glass surface. Have it set up to G29 at the start of every print.

On the tire changers, stayed tuned. I have another idea for combining both so you can use the little guy on top of the big guy that’s bolts to the floor. Simple idea that raises the little guy off the ground or too high on a work bench.