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So Mrs. P works at the town’s water heater manufacturer, Bradford White. The old Chevy and the Snowmowtractor won first place in the show today! There were some very cool vehicles there today, including two monster trucks, various ages of cars and trucks and motorcycles. We were busy for most the day talking projects, seeing old friends, and such. What a sweet day!

Nice opening weather! Look at this guy!

Silvia? Who is Silvia and why are we wishing her happy birthday?

These new Carlisle Turf Savers came on the Raider with rusty wheels. It was raining so cleaned and sanded them. Clear up just before lunch . Went back and water sanded them and painted . It's white looks a lot better then dirt and rust.

Would you really use a mower deck with a 50hp high RPM engine? Nevermind. Now that I read my question, I feel like I know the answer from this crowd...

Soo it's been a while since the last update so here's a few pictures for ya'.. First off a mini loader that needed a new headgasket. Making room to get at the head. After tearing in to it and finding water in the exhaust manifold the decision was made to pull the head. This is not a good sign. After removing and inspecting the head I found to small cracks in the head near one of the valves and one leading into the injection port. After getting quotes for a new head and other necessary bits and bobs the customer decided to go for a completely new engine. Got that in today and hopefully going to put it into the loader tomorrow. Cute little 16hp 3 cylinder turbah diesel. What's not to like!?

Sylvia is the name of my spell checker since she couldn't spell Sylvan...looks like Bob can't spell Sylvia either...

Happy Birthday @SylvanLakeWH, we are all glad you were born! May your batteries never discharge and the thain never stop rolling.

@SylvanLakeWH why don’t ya take a quiet lap around the neighborhood, will ya? Happy Birthday!

Snapped a couple of pics today as I wandered around

Yes, the "Industrial Sized MegaBox for Repeat Offenders"...... Honestly, there is always a "blood-letting" involved with most of our projects.....

The way i see it, the old Chevy Truck is a Survivor... I am more impressed with the SnowTractor - it is a hand crafted one - of - one. Fabricated by a crew that "Survived" with a box of Band-Aids along the way....

That's AWESOME Congratulations!

Last but not least, this tractor had gearbox issues. When in neutral it still moved forward when applying throttle. Diagnosis for tractors of that age/that many hours: broken springwasher inside the transmission. These 'Gima' transmissions use hydraulics to power a clutch pack to engage a group & gearset and a set of spring-/thrustwashers to disengage it. When the spring breaks it doesn't disengage properly causing excessive wear on the clutch disks of the clutch packs. When that happens you can't select/engage gears anymore. Long story short: the gearbox had to come apart. Making room for acessing the gearbox. Tractor split in half with help of trolleys and jacks. Gearbox emptied out and cleaned with pressure washer. All parts spread out on the workbench. Clutch disks can be seen in the center, clutch housing and shaft front left, hydraulic pistons top left. Gearbox inner casing and input shaft on the right. Gearbox assembled and moved closer to it's destination and preparing to sandwich it between the rearend and the engine. Note the Loctite gasket/sealer on the mating surface. That stuff is the bees knees! I can look up the specs if someone's interested. Most of the plumbing back together. Quite a few hoses, lines and wires to reconnect. All back together and ready for a testdrive and calibration of the newly installed gearbox components.

A relatively small job in between. This self feeding, self propelled feeding mixer needed two new hatches welded/installed. The hatches came as a kit and had to be fitted and welded in place. Strange looking vehicle. I assembled this hatch and my coworker did the other side. Again, strange looking thing but we got her up and running again. Off to feed the cows. Another satisfied customer.

Together with a colleague I assembled this Claas Disco mower. Total width is 9m 20cm (about 30ft), requires about 250hp and costs around $80/90.000 (just the two rear ones!). Unboxing extra large. Note: the conveyor belts on the back can be lowered to make one large swath in the middle behind the tractor. Also when mowing next to a ditch the mowed grass can be directed away from said ditch. Makes it easier to collect the grass afterwards. Our stand-in tractor was a little on the light side. All polished up and ready to go to work. This is the tractor the customer will use to mow grass with.

Sorry, but why would anyone want another Tecky carb?

Yep, they bought the brand, patents, and remaining parts inventory from Tecumseh when Tecumseh finally bit the dust. They had planned to continue production of snow engines , but ended up just selling re-branded Honda Clones from China - Like LCT engines (Liquid Combustion Technology) but CPC is now the "official" source for OEM Tecumseh/Lauson parts, last I ever knew of. (Matter of fact they sued and won vs Oregon Outdoor because Oregon was selling essentially rebranded Tecumseh O.E. carburetors.. something to do with patents that had not yet expired, I believe.) We also have a nice source of engine repair info over at ppeten.com , a forum I started years ago when I was still in business. Forum is still going strong, but focusing mainly on Small Engines, and it was relatively rare to see Wheel Horse posts over there. KE4AVB whom is now pretty much running the place, maintains a vast stash of repair manuals and info, not all publicly accessible, but if one were to ask, he probably has engine (2-stroke & 4-stroke) repair manuals and data in his stash he can link you to for free download... There is also a conversion chart for Tecumseh carburetor ID numbers (stamped on the body) to Tecumseh Part numbers (For parts ordering & lookup) among other stuff. I believe the downloads section is restricted access though, if I remember right, had to have minimum number of posts and participation before forum "unlocked" and became visible. That was set up back when the site had very limited bandwidth per month - SEO & site scraper robots would constantly hit & download the manuals and burn up our monthly bandwidth, so... I have actually been considering selling off the site & domain if I could ever find someone that wanted to take over (and figure out how to convert that phpBB2 patched-up mess to a new forum... I no longer want to invest the money into it that I used to... Mostly survives as members still will donate some small bits plus the google ad revenue, so I barely break even.)

Going through some of my dog photos I came across this one of a friend's little girl. She found the dummy (comforter, to us a comforter is a woollen blanket) on a walk and picked it up. She would not be parted from it lol.

This is the heat shaped keepsake we bought to hold a portion of Charlie's ashes. Its a lovely thing cast in solid brass with a screw lid on the rear. I've never had a memorial for a per before but this looked so good I wanted to show how special Charlie was to us.

Hope you get time to enjoy some of the finer things in life.

Well, I'm way past middle age, but, we picked this Dolphin Senior sailboat yesterday. Does this count? I've been looking for a small sailboat for several years, the price was right, and we are still healthy enough to play with it.

If any were built, this would probably be 1 of just a handful of prototypes built.....

I posted about flushing the tranny a couple of days ago. I finally got some seat time today. I sat on it and had to move the seat all the way back since I am 6' 3". I checked the left rear tire and it did not hit the fender so I drove it to try out the gears and flush it. I rode it for about two minutes and it flooded, died and would not restart. I had rebuilt the carb, cleaned the tank but decided to remove the carb which on my 1054 means removing the headlights to get the air filter off. After removing the carb I checked the float and valve and replaced them with new. The new valve tip on the carb was mis-shapen which to me was odd but it seems to be rubber tipped and the new one was all metal. After replacing the carb it fired up and ran fine for the flush. Also all gears worked good and the tranny is quiet. I have a seal kit on the way so the next thing is to paint the rear wheels, replace the axle seals and sand and buff the tractor.

I had the high bid on a C-195 on Monday. Brought it home yesterday and started to look it over today. Over-all it is pretty presentable. It runs, but a previous owner was a mechanical hack. The wiring is a snake pit. The plugs were finger tight, they came out by hand. Pretty fouled. Anyway I started researching on Red Square. The model number sticker is wiped completely clean. Not stamped tin like the older ones. I saw a post that only 656 were built. 501 in 82/83 and 155 in 1984. It got me wondering how many of the various different models were built each year, and where would you find that kind of information. Back to the tractor . The rear fender is plastic. Nothing is broken off, but it has a number of cracks. Is there a glue that will repair it or maybe one of those rubber bumper "welders" for automotive use? Since the model number is gone, I understand there is a difference in the hydraulic levers that gives a clue to the year. Mine are low on the fender. Sorry that is the best picture I have. This is my first post, but I read the site all the time. I really appreciate all the effort that has gone into putting this site together. Manuals, diagrams, pictures, how to's ,and first hand information and experiences. Thanks in advance!

That’s a bummer. I’m sure the American Red Cross would have info on some place local to you that does regular drives. I too enjoy a regular oil change. If they only knew how much I ticker out of myself between appointments, they’d make me skip a few!

My 520-8 you will be surprised by the amount of traction you get mine spins both all the time and never stops for nothing

All of them! I consider it as oil changes. Got to let some of that old stale junk out and get some new blood in there circulating. Or maybe it's more like adding Seafoam or Marvel Mystery oil. I only think I feel better! LoL They used to have blood drive trucks in town and it was quick easy and simple to do. That was always a good "oil change" but they stopped doing that a long while ago. Not sure why???

True that. My no-name will some day be a c-160 and I have the decals to prove it

Just one box @ri702bill?

All I know is if I choose to sell one of my ‘s , they will become extremely rare Collector Items !

My spell check just looked at your spell check and assumed it was okay. And on and on and on it goes. Silvia, Sylvia, whatever it takes. Just give me some cake.

50 Lever Steers and 500 Seniors built and less than 100 or so combined on record from @Big-Game …

My question is what happened to all the records kept by Wheel Horse? Where did all that info end up? Surely it went into someone’s hands and not the trash.?.?.

Happy birthday! Hope ya have a good one

Oh no I just had the mental image of a 40mph mower!

good kick back music , shady tree , hamock , drink of your choice ,

Lotta things affect value. Location is one factor. Can you post up picture of your machines and their attachments?

I put a set of good quality heims joints on my C-120 in 1989 they are still tight. It was my main mower for 40 years, bought a 520 to help it out. put a set of heims joints on it. Here is the set of heims I put on the 1989 520. . .

Going to the Steam Pageant with Mike today, maybe I'll get a lunch out of him today.

After no success breaking this nut loose from the pinion shaft to get to the differential shaft oil seal, I went on the internet to get done wisdom. I did not like what I saw there, wondering about breaking gear teeth. I kept putting penetrating oil on the thing for some days, and finally decided to buy a big boy pipe wrench to fit the yoke and take the load off the gear teeth. I finally figured out how to brace the 3/4 breaker bar against the truck frame and slipped a floor jack under the three foot long pipe wrench. Going to OO O'Reilly's this morning for a two jaw puller and a new shaft nut as they call for a one time use. I used a caliper to measure the original depth of engagement to the threads so as to get the thing to original spec

It’s loaded in the old Chevy for a car show tomorrow! Still kickin around different ideas to make it get to 55-60 mph!

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I think the story on 520-8 is questionable. I live in NC and have owned two. Also seen several others.

I think I’ve lost sleep wondering why those 520-8’s didn’t come with electric lift and I don’t even own one! 😂

So I thought i'd give a little update here. Still working with tractors and machinery. Below a few pictures of what I've been working on. The owner of this narrow/vineyard tractor wants a front PTO installed. Before: Started tearing it down today. Radiator, oil-, diesel- and intercooler had to be removed aswell as the dieseltank. These are the parts that will have to find it's way into the nose of the tractor. The make of the PTO is Sauter which is a high quality German manufacturer. Below you see the wiring, hardware, mounting plate, driveshaft and coupling, PTO-gearbox and the front protective cover. I hope I've got everything, except the dieseltank installed by monday. I'll update when progress is made.

Besides these jobs I have done a bunch of sevice work to several tractors. So all new oil, oilfilters (engine and transmission), new fuelfilters, airfilters, cab filters and so on. 250hp tractor on the engine (pto) dyno. Clever tool to drain oil out of the planetary geared hubs without making a mess. Finding and repairing a leaking tank. Had to drain half of it first unfortunately. Nearly new (50 hours) wheel loader needed full service and a few extra work lights. So far it's been a pleasure to work there. Lots to learn and no day is the same. I'll keep you updated! Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark

Happy Happy Sylvia!