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I can’t believe we are knocking on months from driver’s training for my youngest! August (July 29 actually) will mark eligibility for taking classes and getting behind the wheel. My kids have grown up driving, getting dirty, failing and excelling. No surprise there, with their father learning to wrench on Christmas toys long before they were played with, and their mother following in the footsteps of their grandfather, Adam Petty’s ASA teammate and 1994 ASA Rookie of the Year recipient. This 1992 Chevy Short Box C1500 toted Mrs. P’s Hobby Stock circle track dirt car to every race she could afford to get to, when she wasn’t penciled in for a swim meet in high school. It was a 4.3L Automatic bare bones 2wd work truck, no A/C, no power windows, just a good ole’ first set of wheels. It was passed back to her dad, and long before I was involved with this side of my family, it’s been sitting victim of high miles, hard work, and a ventilated V6 block. When we were dating, I pulled a donor engine from a junk yard and wheelbarrow toted that hefty thing about 300 yards to the register. @Lil’ Pullstart’s Great, Great Uncle Steve is a well known hot rodder in the area. He took the engine down to his shop, had it bored .030” over, rebuilt it with all new pistons, cam, timing set, bearings, valve, the whole ball of wax. It’s been on a stand waiting for this project for over 15 years, maybe 17 or so if I can count and recall dates correctly. About a year or two ago, we were camping at Grandpa’s house and Rylee started having a conversation with him about buying the truck back. It has been pushed from the yard, to the barn, filled with stuff, pushed out, pushed around, leaned on a time or two, etc. They settled on $300 as is, with the engine. I picked the engine up about a year ago. Her truck has been loaded on Grandpa’s ramp truck with a dead battery and flat on the bottom tires for even longer. Last weekend, we went over, popped some 5 on 5” wheels and tires from a race car on the back, pushed it off the ramp truck and tugged it home. I have a 5 speed manual swap to go into it, thanks to a local CL ad for the transmission and Tony Angelo from Motor Trend’s Hot Rod Garage and now his own show Stay Tuned. Since anything in the engine bay that is plastic or rubber has been cooking in the sun for a few years with no hood, I am thinking a lot of electronics will go away in favor of a nice carburetor, and an HEI ignition. I have a 2000 K3500 (5.7L 4x4) parts truck for the things like grille and headlights, washer and coolant tanks, any interior parts needed, I found a clean front bumper in my stash, and some things will be needed like good tires, brakes, etc, and we will search for those. There are more parts still at Grandpa’s like the hood, motor mounts, radiator, etc, but it’s nice the truck is home.

The most ingenious name in tractor design you probably never heard of: Wallis Tractors The Wallis “Bear” tractor was a bit larger than your average bear, the 16,000-pound tractor rolled onto the western prairielands in 1902 with a 1062 cubic inch gasoline/kerosine engine, three speed enclosed transmission and power assist steering. Later models came with a 1480 cubic inch inline, upright 4-cylinder engine with a 7-1/2-by-9-inch bore and stroke capable of pulling a ten-bottom plow. The mechanical power steering unit is driven off the engine and provides an assist in turning the front wheels by a system of clutches, pulleys, and belts. A lever near the steering wheel is used to engage or disengage the power steering. Only nine Bears were built between 1902 and 1910. The Wallis Tractor Co., Cleveland, OH, began with H.M. Wallis as the company’s president; he was also a son-in-law of J.I. Case and later became president of the J.I. Case Plow Works, Racine, WI. Wallis saw the fast-growing trend for smaller, more nimble tractors and as a result the Bear was followed in 1913 by the Wallis Cub, the Cub Junior in 1915 and the Model K in 1919. All were produced at the J.I. Case Plow Works in Racine. Only 660 Cubs were built during its six-year production run but the Cub’s unique patented one piece curved “U” Frame construction was revolutionary. The “U” Frame serves as the engine oil pan and tractor frame attaching to the steering at the front and transmission and final drive at the rear, it is the backbone of the tractor. The elimination of a separate frame allowed the Wallis Cub and its successors to be lighter weight per horse power. Virtually every full-size tractor built today traces its DNA back to the Wallis Cub and its revolutionary “U” Frame. In 1927 the company arranged an agreement to sell Wallis tractors in Canada through Massey-Harris. One year later, Massey-Harris bought J.I. Case Plow Works and continued to build Wallis tractors, including the 20-30 and the 12-20. Though Wallis Tractor Company is no longer with us the legacy of their “U” Frame lives on throughout the world.

Finishing up building this show buggy for this season. Just finishing up painting the railing and adding beverage holders. Anyone else have show buggies? It's orange so I probably can't get away with taking it to the big show lol

Good meal to finish to the day. A nice ribeye grilled to a perfect medium moo, smothered in sauteed mushrooms, with a side of steak fries & south west corn. Tomorrow it's back to cheap hot dogs, Kraft mac & cheese, or Ramen noodles.

Happy Happy Bro! Got a little pic heavy...

Happy Birthday Captain Dan! I got you a cheesy picture!

Nice!!! 10 minutes with a brush and voila... it's red (or black)... Sort of a show buggy...

I finished putting the rear end back together on the 518-h. Took it for the first drive and it runs and drives amazing! Next up is a beefy rear hitch.

THANKS EVERYONE!!! So far it's been a good day. Took a break from testing generators today & had some good garage time this morning. Just took a break to have some stuffed poblanos for lunch. Then I'm gonna see what trouble I can get into today.

Happy Birthday Dan! I hope Uncle Jim bought you some new tools after you wore yours out fixing all of his stuff!

Have a Great Day Dan

Did @Pullstart say cheese... Happy Birthday!

You definitely get what you pay for. Did you by chance check how much grease was in the bearings to begin with?

Happy Birthday Dan , only 54 still young yet . Quit hanging around with the BED Pan dancer and you will have many more Birthdays.

It's Late & dark outside. the attachments are on the side of the garage where there is no light at all so I will get pics of them tomorrow

Have a GREAT day Dan,

Big Betty Baloo is my show buggy. This pic is shortly after I adopted her and got her running.

Looks great! Just keep in mind that the 518-H, if still equipped with the Eaton 700, has the pulling power of ~8 hp. The extra horses were intended for mowin’, blowin’, or tillin’ via the PTO.

Happy Birthday, Dan!

Happy Birthday Dan! You keep this place moving in the right direction!

Another thing to check is make sure the solenoid has a good ground. I have seen where the ground is weak and the solenoid will click. But because of the weak ground the solenoid coil can't carry enough current to close the contacts.

Happy Birthday @Treepep, we are glad you were born!

I "rebuild" my petcocks, take them apart, clean them, replace the O rings with ones from the hardware store, costs less than a dollar. I buy the tank bushings usually 4 at a time on fleabay to have them on hand, around 5-10 bucks.

Check out the vendors on this site... i've had very good experiences... https://www.wheelhorseforum.com/forum/92-vendors/

@Achto joining the crowd , happy birthday Dan ! been busy with numerous projects , just got back on line , pete

I like it 👌 Can't go wrong with a bus seat!

Happy birthday Dan !

Happy Birthday Dan, I know you will have a good one.

Many Happy Returns Sir!🎁 Have a great day 🎂🍾🎉🎈🥂🍺🥃🕺🏼💃 And many, many more 👍 Doug🇬🇧

I’m going to build another one like the one that I made for the 416-8.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Well done so far, Kevin. That smile on your mug in the first photo says it all.....

Happy Borned on Day

Wishing you a Wheel Horse of a day.

Happy Happy Tree

Have a Great Day

Here is a crude hand drawn picture showing the wiring connections to all the gauges. I= Ignition switched power G= Ground S= Signal This is for the metal body SW gauges, the plastic Toro gauges may be different Wheel Horse gauge wiring rear view.pdf

Have a great day!

I’m up for the Belltown show! Last year was a wash out with rain all day. You and I were there for the 2022 show

Happy Birthday, Dan...

1972 & prior older tiller model 7-1211 uses drive belt #1599 (139") 1973 and later models use drive belt 110265.

Yep. Understandable. We got the Workhorse going for our friends. They used the plow a bit. Snowblower maybe twice but didn't really need to. They'll have it for grass soon though. We have several plows, a walk behind blower, a short chute I've not used, and recently a tall chute single stage, also unused by me. I'm perfectly fine with having multiple angles on snow removal and not using ANY.

Red only had 2 runs down the driveway. Rusty feels useless.