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Geez! How time gets away from me. It was 2015/16 when these two were given to me. The pictures really don't show how bad they were. Pretty much scrap metal. By the summer of 2018 I had combined the two of them to build this. Now, 4 1/2 years later and it still hasn't been started. I have an issue with the recoil start that's eluding me. I decided to pull the engine so I could continue the chase in a warm space. I got away with bringing it inside because it has absolutely no fuel smell at this point. If I can get the recoil fixed all I have left to do is the fuel lines and coil wires.

418-C that was listed on as Transmission quit working. It was UGLEY but with a new drive belt it was back in operation. A bit of Regal Red, a set of Patriot decals from Terry and it came out rather nicely if I must say so myself. Kids like it too

Has anybody ever seen one of these seats before? The wheel horse and cecil pound lettering is embossed on the seat and painted white.

I love these threads Sylvia. Some folks look at these baskets and figure just a bunch of scrap. By all rights they should be but it says alot about thus hobby and the passion and personal satisfaction of driving it and showing when all is said and done. I think what would be cool is to haul say a basket case say an 867 to a show and park it next to one restored with before and after signs. Most folks don't see what has been started out with. Only the guys that have ever done one know what it takes. My favorite although not done yet is this 701 Dan willed me. Can't rush a good thing. Never in a million when I bought this tractor in '86 did I ever... think it would someday end up looking like this!

My 1996 416-H with an Eaton 1100 transmission, has always performed well in all types of weather. Some people complain about slow response in cold weather. So I just wanted to give you my observations during this cold spell. The tractor lives outside, under a cover. On December 23, the temperature dropped to 2 degrees (f) overnight here in Maryland. We did not have any snow, so I decided that morning to move the tractor to allow for more guests coming the next day. Starting the engine at 2 degrees was slow. The engine turned over slowly (10w30 oil) but eventually started. As soon as the engine smoothed, I lifted the blade and engaged the hydro. There was no hesitation. The blade lifted quickly, and forward motion was like summer time. I use 10w30 fully synthetic oil in the hydro. I'm curious about others and how their experiences were during this brutal cold weather.

Going the other way on this Bob with 520s. Denny always starts right up if you let the electric fuel pump work abit first. Instant motion but no blower lift until the tranny starts it's "whine" and the charge pump takes off. Same with the deuce but longer wait time for the whine and the whine is much louder. 2 deg. Here and takes at least 3 minutes. Charge pump kicks in can actually snub the motor out even at 1/4 throttle. Feathering the choke is always required till warmed up. Mob 1 syn 10-30 in all my 1100s and Onans. Outside under lean to and always on batt tenders so turning over never a problem. Deuce is going to get an electric fuel pump. Best thing since sliced bread. Even with a check valve getting ⛽️ up the carb an issue. Might add that never any hesitation above 32 or so. Thinking about 5w-30? These are strictly snow tractors.

The 953 now known as "Hot Wheels" Before After

Before and after of my barn find 953. Before After

This is my first "motorcycle?) was 14yrs, had a paper route and saved the $50 needed for it. Was just the beginnings of my love of 2 wheelers. When my oldest was 12-13? I found a Honda like the one here and -- again paid $50 to get it for him, pretty beat, but he and I fixed it and him and then his younger brother got it. I finally got over 2 wheels and found red 4 wheels with a horse on them --- my sons and grand sons all still have bikes, though a quite bit different from that little honda!

NOT to have fibromyalgia. As stated earlier we've done a few heads the manual way already. Yes it's possible. Yes it's time consuming. No I can't do it all at once because my body just will not let me do it anymore. Even the least warped heads that I've done took 20 or 40 minutes and I have to do those in two or three sessions or more. What I'm trying to do is find a way to mechanize the process at least part way down and then finish it up manually as we've always done. I have one head in particular off of a 16 horse that is pretty badly warped. That one will be a candidate for a compression increase anyway so I want to be able to take 30 or 40 thousandths. If there's just no way under the sun to get this done other than spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on machinery then I'll just keep sending them to Mr pull start as offered above. The money I would spend on the shipping is WELL worth the value of me not being in multi-joint pain for several days after a repeated motion activity like this.

When I was a boy, we lived on 5 acres in the woods. I found a dirt bike tire in the creek and I must have pushed that tire 200 miles that summer. I was gonna get a bike to fit the tire. Child like figurin’.

Ya got it running yet Chuck ??

"The Honda Sport 90, Super 90, or S90, is a 90 cc Honda motorcycle ultra lightweight new design motorcycle, the engine based on the Honda Super Cub, and was made from 1964 to 1969. The motorcycle continued in production In various forms for example the S90Z in Indonesia. [1]" When I was in High School back in the early to mid 1970's, my neighbor (same age) had one of these that was pretty beat up, but it ran. We used to ride it in the fields. At some point the exhaust pipe fell off, so it got loud and it was cool that you could see the flames coming out when we rode it in the dark. It wasn't very good over jumps, but... we did it anyway.

I don't have 300 tractors so everything sits in the garage without the heat on unless I'm planning on working out there the next day. 30W Rotella in the engines and 10W-40 Mobil 1 in the C-160 Sunstrand, I engage the hydro after the engine warms up a couple of minutes and let the trans pully turn a couple more minutes before moving the tractor. When I had my C-145 and 520H Same 30W in the engines and 10/30 in the Eatons. Hydraulic lift worked right off the bat with both of them but I let them warm up just the same.

1075 ... 875 ... 416-8 ... C-161... 857 ... and the Homemade.

I started this one with just a pile of parts. Had a K-91 on it Iwould just pull it around. Made quite a few changes on it and installed HF 420 Haven't had it out in a couple years. Did a build on it over on My Tractor Forum. It's in Home built tractor tread DonF [/ur

My Mclean as I found it After restoring or "building from scratch" Not sure how to categorize this one.

I might add that I too keep battery tenders on everything. Thinking about an electric fuel pump. Another thing is that this summer I replaced the original Onan carburetor with a Chinese knock-off. The Onan was erratic. It would spit and sputter, stop working, flood out if I hit a snow bank or tree too hard. The new Chinese carb has worked flawlessly.

Only a guy with "Berg" on the end of his name would know that'

Silent P. . (Rad-ferd). Roll the R, short A, long E.

No fair... all you did was a new seat... well ... guess that works for me... The 953 now known as "Hot Wheels" Give it a year or two with it's current owner... sure it will return to it's former glory... or worse and have a motor that doesn't belong in a tractor!

856 ... 500 Special ... Lambert 655 ... Case 224

A two fer one. Both were such molested wrecks I knew I needed two just to make one but always wanted a short frame with a big block. Less than 150 spent with both tractors. Let's not talk about the build tab... she may be listening...

Can anybody identify this?

@ebinmaineI can understand the physical limitations or difficulties. I go through them all the time. While at it I use home remedies that not only dull the pain ,loosen the joints, but at the same time enhance creativity. Well proven.

I am not positive, but our school bus might be the only one in our fleet with ABS…

C 105 manual fired up at 2 degrees but sluggish. I use an inline marine bulb. 30 weight Rotella. Few minutes to warm up. Good to go. My E 141s run perfectly regardless of temp... no warm up...

We got hammered with super high winds and moderate unmeasurable snow. So cold that I waited it out until the temp was above fifteen degrees. By then the drifts were frozen, but once a path was chewed through, I just skinned snow off the edge and used the existing snow to contain one side. The aggressive 4 wheeler treads pushed it easily without additional weight or chains needed

They are... https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-uscellular-us-revc&q=red+horse&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjU0-zLyKH8AhXTCTQIHY7ZBvAQ0pQJegQICRAB&biw=384&bih=718&dpr=2.81#imgrc=zF4thXAwDeGdCM

I found that both of the K 341 engines I have reeeeally like to warm up for 3 to 5 minutes before much movement. One Automatic. One manual. I don't know what oil was in my 1975 Automatic when I got the tractor. It was installed around 2012 by a former Wheel Horse dealer who was likely following specs so I assume it may be straight 30 oil? If I tried to start that tractor on a cold day and then engage the transmission it would nearly kill the engine which was at half throttle or so warming up. I got in the habit of letting the engine come to life and get warmed up for a good strong 5 minutes before I even tried to move the tractor or lift. The system is empty now for the restoration so I will likely put a 10w30 of some sort in the hydro system and see how that goes.

Alright Dan…need help here. How is Radpferd pronounced????? Silent P? Or silent D?? Don’t tell me you pronounce every letter …

Thought I had a piktcha of the beast somewhere... Ten inch ring wheel is enough for most jobs. Very fine feed in it so you can take off very small amounts. No belt issues that have already been mentioned. wish id kept hold of it, but it went to a better home lol.

I remembered that @Achto had done this thread, did a search for Dan AND muffler and just went down the list of returns until I found the thread I wanted. Works most of the time. Takes a few minutes but I'm not going anywhere anytime soon so why not help the guy out.

New acronym! S, M, L, XL, and MAFG!

Cleaned up it's bottom side.

I see I'm going to have some real fun here, a lot of you guys have your noses very close to your gas caps!

Geez Sylvia... that’s tuff act to follow... all I did was put some WW on a 502. Wow ... hope the text talk police don't show up at my door... Got these from @cschannuthwhen I picked up the FEL and figured I'd never use them... wrong. Only maybe 20-30 lbs a piece but better than a poke in the eye with a dull stick. I may try and hitch up that 8 in Brinly Craig I got from you too. I couldn't get it to track right behild the regular plow mule but didn't futz with it that much. Be happy to know Greasy Pete before she left the shop got a full lube job... red tacky and all. Just an awesome little tractor and I definitely fell in love with her techy and all.

As I received it. After restore

Radpferd on the day I brought him home. After a slight make over.

Well deer season ends tomorrow and after archery season closed a month ago I kind of lost interest. But the one thing I didn’t lose interest in is ice fishing. Every weekend from here til March I will be somewhere in New England ice fishing. The boys enjoy it just as much as I do. I have already been twice in the last week. I have a place that freezes well before everywhere else. It already has 9inches of ice on it while most places are unsafe. We are headed back there tomorrow to see if the boys can have another good day. Funny story that actual is Wheel Horse related. My dad used to tow all his ice fishing gear out onto the ice with his 12 Automatic equipped with chains. I don’t ever remember him doing that but he did. He said it worked really good unless the snow was deep then he left it home. Some of the places he used to go was half mile or more from the parking area so the tractor beat walking he said. anyone else in western mass ice fish?

I had a Honda 90 when I was stationed in Charleston, SC in the Navy ('66 to '68). I lived off base on the Isle of Palms which meant I had to cross the old steep draw bridge twice a day. the Honda would make it almost all the way to the top then I had to jump off and walk it the rest of the way. It was all I could afford at the time and a lot of fun on the beach but was just a bit short on power.

Napa 610-1051 or equivalent

Who's fault is that? Sounds like a personal problem... You won't regret it Bob and that's coming from a hard core orginalist. I thought the check valve thing would work but didn’t for me. Perhaps if the check was located back by the tank? I don't know what pump @dclarkeused when he built this tractor but knowing him it's a good one. When you turn the key to run you can hear it clicking. When it changes pitch you know it's working against the float inlet and have gas to the carb. I also like to run GT batteries in the larger 3- 400 CCA size in winter workers if one can find them. Standard, but more economical, ones are only 230 CCA. Wished the 4/500 series had that feature.

I replaced the Onan carb with a Chinese carb on my 1994 520H… mine works great too… maybe I got lucky…

Amen!