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My little buddy chose Chloe first for our rides, but the field is still too wet to turn a furrow for the food plots. It needs a new H10C plug as well, fouling up and loosing power with a load. We parked the 953 and grabbed the WHRat for some golf ball pickin’. She got quite a bit of drive time logged! *Any time she was by herself, the tractor was in low/1st. Crawl speed indeed.

I got a little tinkering done today. I swapped front sneakers (16x7.50-8) out on the 314-8, and finally added the front wheel weights. The Vanguard is awesome, but very light weight compared to a Magnum. Given the lift on the back, every extra pound of ballast counts.

The things you see, schlepping around southern Virginia (Danville). Perhaps an RS member from VA?

Back in post 18898, I spoke of fixing the flat tires. Here they are, with tubes inserted and the things uninflated so that it would be easy to paint behind the outside bead. Used the Rust-Oleum red primer and let it dry and then painted the inside of the tim with Almond Gloss. Then we mounted it to the tractor and spun on a finish coat and carefully coated the tim edge while keeping the tire back from the rim . The tire will be inflated later..While not as perfect as spraying the paint on, it worked very well using the rotating tire and holding the brush against it.

Preparations are in the final stages for the 2023 Sylvan Lake Memorial Day Parade!!! Official uniforms for the crew of 15 arrived today. 10 years old down to 2 months old... We work 'em young on the railroad... Of course, they will also have conductor hats, wooden train whistles and RED bandannas... 100 plastic train whistles will be handed out to bystanders so the sound of the SL&WHN RR will linger long after we have passed... whoo hoo!!!!

Would they have to have a couple coats of Rusto-Red to bringem to the show?

None for slight length changes As long as the governor maintains motion without any mechanical limits except for the carb butterfly it will therefore control the carb butterfly the same. To make a new link on a Kohler K or M open the carb butterfly all the way Governor arm moved all the way left (away from the carb) Like setting the governor arm position. Make your link to that measurement between the two holes.

We like 'em all! ... wait a minute. We're still talking tractors right?

Pressed in bearings in a 5025 Trans. Waiting for 1 more input shaft bearing. Used press on the capped ones and custom arbors and 7/16" fine thread rod for the axle bearings and non capped ones. They have a lip to set the depth for the seals.

Loaded for the Steam-O-Rama Spring Fling. I'll be there Fri. and Sat.

You hang a Mackissic chipper off the front of that and your ballast concerns are forever solved.

Short and fat, tall and skinny!

Notice the little hair sticking out of the seat… She was driving by herself today, and we were looking for golf balls.

Here a few pictures of the almost completed Raider. I never go the "Restored Route" so can you ever say it's complete. Still have somethings I plan to do to it.

Chores!

Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday...

Got this Ford off my plate. I sprayed Ford red on the remaining sheet metal. This concludes my obligation towards this tractor. On to the next job.

She drove me around close to an hour. When we found a ball, we stopped, put it in neutral, she got off and grabbed it, handed it to me and we did it all over again. Lots of exercise for her and seat time for us!

I'm envious of the knowledge and skill you machinist guys have. Then all the tools to put that into practice. I dabble around with a small homeowner type Atlas lathe but really have no idea what I'm doing. I can "turn" some parts but that's about it. Nothing with all of that decimal point precision.

Well I got my second Wheelhorse today it was listed as a 1977 B100 hadn't run in 2 years, for $400. Well I kinda lowballed and offered $150 if they were interested and didn't get other offers. This was without seeing it in person. A couple days go by and they accept the offer. So today after a hour and 40 minute round trip drive I picked it up. He had said one of the axles was starting to come out on him and he thought it was a c-clip. That wasn't a big deal to me for $150. Got it home and noticed something weird with the one rear tire as in it was crooked. Shame on me for not noticing earlier.. however for $150 I'm still ok with it but looks like I will need a new axle and hub. Unfortunately I thought it was a 77 which meant it had the 1 1/8 axles but since it is a 74 it has the 1" axles which is ok since I got my 73 12-8 to do all the hard work. Model#1-0510-9 1974 B Series Garden Tractor B-100 Automatic Kohler K241S-46636D 10 Sundstrand 90-1136

Just low rided my 856, that has a HH100 Tecumseh (big block short frame) with points. And she rips but even better fits the rat rod look. Yes I have the drive belt guard just need to shop it a little to make it fit. Took me 6-8 hours to do only specials tools I needed was a angle grinder if anyone was thinking about doing it too and I have it held it with the bottom holes for th transmission at the top holes on the frame and then brackets to hold the top in place if you don’t it’ll wanna fold in on itself

Added decals to the seat of the newly restored '75 C160 Automatic. @Pullstart @c-series don I'd put more there if I had 'em.

Cas, I will be heading West on Sunday to hunt turkey on my sisters farm in the Appalachians. My nephew has a couple sawmills and makes furniture. If he has any white oak slabs in the size you need, I could get pictures and prices.

If that is what’s necessary, Red it is. Bring them on.

I believe it is two years since my thread on coating my deck with “Rust Bullit”. Again this year basically nothing caked on it. Just a light scraping with actually a screwdriver and a wire brush. Except for on some of deck’s edge where it scrapes on ground, coating is intact . No adhesion failure and no rust trough.

Safe travels to you both and I hope you have a great time!

What kind of rule has an extra 1/16" on the end?

All of my engines with a K161 or K181 have the linkage wire in the 3rd hole from the throttle shaft, and the other end in the bottom hole of the governor arm. Length between holes is 2-5/8". I find that with the linkage set up as described, I have smoother control over a range of idle to full throttle. q

Here's the extent of my abilities and made this yesterday from a cut 3/4 WH steering shaft. It's going to be used to span 2 brackets that have 1/2" holes in them and the threaded holes in the ends will hold it and some floor boards and the brackets together. The shoulders fit inside the bracket holes. Not even in the same atmosphere as the work you can do! I just hack my way through pretty much everything Edit: Forgot to mention that everything was measured with a tape measure!

Cabbie joke LOL It does have the old school rocker type bit holder. A mill attachment holder too. Some slight run out on the chuck for some reason that I haven't figured out how to stop. I like the challenge of trying to figure out how to set things up for to cut from different angles inside holes and things like that. I don't know how to do it or what the right tooling for different things are because I've never really seen them in action or know what's available or even how they would work if I did. Taking a machinist class or something would be the best coarse of action but like anything, there's always something with priority over that. It does have leadscrew for threading? I think. It can be engaged to slide the tool holder carriage automatically length wise, When I got it from an old house my little brother moved into there was a note in the guy's papers about how proud he was to finally thread something correctly. It seemed like he was trying it for a very long time. I'll see if I can find it, it was kind of inspiring as he seemed so excited with that sense of accomplishment. Can't remember but think it was dated like late 60s or early 70s or something

It sounds like you have already purchased the replacement crankshaft, put them side by side and measure the two of them looking for any discrepancies. I'm not an Onan man so I can't say with certainty that these two crankshafts are going to be identical. What I can tell you is that any industrial foundry that is casting large quantities of parts (like crankshafts) will give each mold a number even though they are producing the same identical item. This is done to track the quality of each mold's products. If the flywheel end and the PTO end measure the same then it is probably going to be a direct replacement.

Still waiting for gps to recalibrate???

Yup. I have a whole bunch of ‘em inside Colleen!

I believe too long and it won't run full speed, too short it won't idle down.

@Pullstart the WHrat WHrod is looking beautiful!!! What a lucky kid!!!

You grow those there??!? I always thought they were made in a factory somewhere.....

It's only rated for 3/4 ton.

Putting the RJ back together that I had a very tight turning transmission on. I took this to Florida in February and worked on it . Started assembling last year. I finally gave up on the two RJ ⚧️s I had for this rebuild and contacted Keith Jones in Ohio. I madd a wild deal with Keith to give him several boxes of RJ and Suburban transmission parts and a couple full transmissions for a replacement rebuild in trade. Keith also had His friend Larry “Ratpack” Eads assist him and analyze the problem. Larry suggested two new axle’s which he machined as the old ones were pretty worn. I had given Keith all new bearings, seals, brass bushings, gaskets and side plate gaskets for the rebuild. This transmission is an early 8 tooth brake gear not the later 11 . Keith and Larry worked on this thing over five Sundays getting all the old parts out, the new parts in and finding out what was causing the tightness in the axles Turing the gears. It turned out that one of the axle tubes on the inside of one of the side plates was slightly bent and needed to be straightened! I picked it up on Sunday April 3pth which was the date Keith and I set for pick up back in March. I can’t thank these two guys rnough as this transmission is the smoothest turning thing! Waiting for my wheel paint to dry before putting in my rear routes but racing to go ride this RJ. I built this for my brother David.

Cover the top with that heavy wire, so you could haul @squonk around the mother country, and he would not get loose and scare the new King.

today i took one of the wheels off reese the rj so i can take it home and find a replacement

Installed hitch receiver from wheel horse parts & more Installed adjustable hitch Pulled the 4x8 utility trailer around cleaning up storm damage

Giving a heads up in case any one would like to plan a trip to Wisconsin to attend a nice show that is featuring Wheel Horse this year. This will be their 3rd show and it has been growing nicely.

That's the one that came off the parts C-160 AL gave us Dan. Looking at Cas's pic thinkin the one on the middle right. Both are gonna need repair at the engine mount but nothing serious. BTW @formariz your pics narrowed it down. Yours must he an Electro but same difference.

So much for the "Light Press Fit", eh??

i have done about a dozen mowers cleaning, rehabbing, reconditioning -- i have used various cover products - - typically two primer coats first, then either 2 coats paint - or even truck bedliner. The most important step to me has been to clean the underneath down to clean, bare metal -- most of the time i take mower deck to a commercial sand blaster who makes surface spotless of any rust corrosion or residue of any kind -- there have been a few i have cleaned by hand with combo of 90 degree angle grinder with special discs -- mini Ingersol Rand air compressor grinder - or various wire wheel tools on hand drill, etc - or a scaler - and of course a pressure washer. But the key has always been to get perfectly clean of all prior rust corrosion -- hopefully these decks will get another 20 yrs -- but as we know the key to any mower longevity is the day to day maintenance of cleaning the grass from underneah regularly to prevent the corrion and rot in the fist place.

Not hugely wide, but very useful.

You know where we'll be. At the "Hospitality " tent!

ha yeah typo

I had a clapped out South Bend and a 'mill drill' and really didnt know much about useage of either ..... til I was fortunate enough to meet a .... genius? machinist that lived only a few miles from me and we became really good friends, and he taught me ..... all kinds of stuff!! Sadly this was late in life, especially for him - he was a HEAVY smoker, and after being my mentor for way too short of time - about 8-10 yrs, the smoking caught up with him at 63 yrs old, I miss that guy something awful. At least I came away with a souped up Bridgeport clone and a really nice 13x36 late model South Bend with most every tooling there is for them --- and thanks to Lane Sisson I can use them a to a fair degree Thank you Lane!