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Happy Wednesday Afternoon, Wife and I took a roadtrip today, left house right around 6 am. Stopped at a nice fellas house by the name of Josh in Elizabethtown PA. He was acting as the middleman between Jason and owner of this restored C120. Josh also mentioned he runs the Lebanon PA winter show in February--he says its all indoors and 6 or 7 buildings. I may have to look into going... Then onto my GT2500 in Jacobus (York) PA... met an equally nice gentleman by the name of Keith Kauffman. Walk down to his garage and there sits a 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda 4 speed!!! Dang!!!! He recently just put a 408 stroker small block in it and has the original 340 on stand. On way out of town I looked up the dealer that had placed there dealer sticker on the Briggs shroud and found them. I stopped in and asked the gentleman if he'd like to come out and see one of his tractors head north. He came out and started talking... then took me for a short tour and told me about the list of every tractor they ever sold until Toro took over in 1986. What a cool old dealship... they didnt have any shift boots but I bought a 7473 8 speed drive belt to get him a few bucks. I told him about Redsquare and the big show and that he should look into going---the shop is about an hour away. Now its onto dinner with wife and then heading home tomorrow. Tony

Removed the Lawn-Boy push mower wheels from the deck on the 401 and installed a set of correct new old stock replacements:

Locked and loaded... Eight horses a Amigo and a Cub for sale.

Wow, as far as weather goes we're not that far apart and my garage thermometer said 68 degrees. .....probably because it's mounted on the same wall as the ac unit. 🤣

Cleaned up some. Picked up c165 from Jason yesterday. Thanks Jay! Always wanted a rubber mounted 16hp single. Needs drive belt and some other small items. Will be nice little machine when I am done.

All set up @Pullstart... Don't wish you were here

All boring stuff Tony. Now my Wednesday was just wonderful, I worked all day!

What have I done to my Wheel Horse today??? Nuttin!! It’s 98 degrees in the garage

Yes sir Richard... horse barn starting to fill up. We didn't go hungry tonite. Dan made cheese steaks & cob on the corn.

Remnants of Beryl. Dewpoints of 75° + temps in the 90's All the chillers running flat out and not keeping up. Tornado warnings but nothing popped. Never seen anything like this in the 16 years I've worked here. I feel like Scotty on Star Trek: " I'm givin you all it's got Capt.! A little Music to sooth the soul!

85.5 out in the shop area (putting an old blade on a snow horse have to push some crushed stone and small rocks don't want to mess up a nice blade. 73.9 in the work room which is where the K341 is slowly going back together

We can change if you wish... @Sparky wanna change???? here last week mostly 60-64F and a lot of Rain 🤬 today the first „warm Day“ with 79F. 😇 Missing the Time in the States with some more Summer 🤪😎

Making key racks! I was kind of overwhelmed at the show from all the people asking me about my key racks. Unfortunately I only had three with me as I ran out of time making them. Once I get those sorted out, the rest of these will get posted in the classifieds.

Drop them both off here I can make room in the barn!

@ebinmaine It needs a little love but I got all the parts.

Quite warm here as well but it rains every couple of days. It's like a tropical rain forest. Grass loves it, I have to Mow every few days. Mosquitoes also love it. We have a bumper crop right now.

Lots cooler here, its 92

I found this in the classifieds, contacted the seller, worked out a date to pick it up and brought it home today. The owner said if he had not found a buyer it was going to the scrap yard because he wanted it gone. He was having issues with the motor and didn't have time to deal with it. Timing was just right because my wife said she wanted a riding mower because she doesn't like my zero turn and was ready to shop the big box stores. The motor is a box of parts and the deck needs some repair but I will make it whole again and get it mechanically sound. This intent is to make it a dedicated mower. Work on this one should start in about 2 weeks. The seat is in very good condition and will be replaced and maybe passed on to someone.

And I'll bet you'd store them for free too. The generosity of some folks.....

Mister THAT'S a great day.

More than “a little”, it looks like from here. Still, it does look promising -- the seat appears in good shape.

@WHX?? you lettin' your herd co-mingle with @Pullstart's ?!?!? That bus seat looks like it's got Michigan genes...

A few thousand pounds of neat stuff there! Happy weekend!

Wanted to give you all an update on this tool, I picked one up back in January but just recently got the chance to try it out much. As soon as we got it home Courtney’s dad latched on to it and put it through its paces on a Jeep tub he’s redoing. But I finally was able to pry it out of his hands and used it to strip the old paint and rust off of the fuel tank for the Allis WC. My personal opinion if a person does any amount of sheet metal work this is a must have tool. I used to strip paint and rust with a grinder and wire wheel and while those still have their place this did it so much faster and with less vibration. The drum selection for HF leaves a little to be desired, but the drums from Eastwood for their ContourSCT fit right on this tool. I bought the scale stripping drum from Eastwood and it made quick and easy work of removing the rust and scale from inside the rear rim on the WC

Hello all, just wanted to report that the transplant operation was a success, and i was able to mow today with no observable problems. Yay! So yes, you can swap a 90-2046 & mating transaxle for a 90-1136 & mating transaxle. However, there were some bumps along the way, and unless you have a lot more experience at this than I did when I started it, you should be aware of these points: - As the hydro pump/motor casting looks identical in both units, my initial thought was that I could keep my 90-1136 and bolt it onto the 90-2046 transaxle. They even use the same gasket. But ... wrong! The fly in the ointment is that the gearing is different from one to the other. (see my earlier post above). Upshot: time spent on taking both of the hydro pumps/motors off of their respective transaxles, when I could have just used the 90-2046 as I received it. However, this did give me the opportunity to inspect the innards of the 90-2046 transaxle, which turned out to be just fine. The different gearing means a bit less speed and a bit more power, but driving it today, I really didn't notice any appreciable difference. "Fast" is fast enough. - The 90-2046 I got did not have the drive pulley attached. No big deal, thought I, I'll just take the pulley off my 90-1136. Wrong! The 90-1136 pulley has a splined shaft, and the 90-2046 has a smooth shaft with a key and set-screw. Oh well. A visit to eBay turned up the needed pulley at a reasonable price. - And I now have to use transmission oil in the 90-2046 instead of the 30w motor oil that is used in the 90-1136. Now that I think about it, there's another reason why I couldn't have used the 90-1136 hydro and pump on the 90-2046 transaxle. But, I didn't find out about the different oil requirement until later on in the project. Overall, that would be the biggest issue I had -- "you don't know what you don't know." I am extremely grateful for this forum and the vast amount of information and advice available on it -- without it, I couldn't have succeeded. Although there were a few instances of hair-tearing despair along the way. One aggravating issue I had was with the parking brake assembly, which I failed to take a photo of during disassembly. The brake lever on the transaxle was bent in such as way as to look legit but it did not work (probably happened just being moved around). Needless to say, the forum came through with the exact photo I needed to set it up correctly. Looking ahead, here in northern Virginia we usually have 4-6 weeks of "down time" between fall and winter, when there's no mowing to be done, but no snow on the ground either. So, I'll probably take advantage of that window to do some more work, and if it all works out, possibly even get another 90-1136 transaxle and look at refurbing the hydro pump and motor as @daveoman1966 has suggested, and put the whole thing back into its original configuration. It may seem like a round-about way of repairing the original cracked transaxle problem, but I'm inclined to look at the whole thing as an extended learning experience. And for now, I have a working tractor for the cost of a gasket and a drive pulley. My other takeaway from this project is a expanded and profound appreciation for the engineers and craftsman who designed and built this tractor. These are truly great machines that reflect the best that American engineering can produce.

Well it was still hot in the sun but a slight breeze rolled through, I got the seat I picked up from big show 2023, finally mounted on the diesel. I used FASS diesel fuel pump brackets the rest of the GT14 tins and whatever hardware i had laying around.. Seat is not completely centered but itll work for the LIAPA show and pulls

One video I watched was a guy did half of his truck with Flush and the other half with boiled linseed. A year later the Flush was holding up much better. We can believe that cuz we saw it on the internet........... I'll experiment and report back.

I have been waiting on high heat spray paint to go on sale then I realized that I have a can I bought for my pellet stove. I bought this little spray gun a year or two ago and have never used one before so I thought this would be a good learning experience. Paint seems fairly thin so I used it as is. Lower and upper heat shields painted. I was going to paint the muffler a silver colour but since I already have this paint and a silver deflector will be going onto it I sprayed it the same satin black as the heat shields. Spray gun worked well. The manual said to use 40-60 PSI but my little parts were getting blown all over so I reduced pressure to 30.

Anyone up for going to the National Apple Harvest Festival this year? It's October 5, 6, 12 and 13. Maybe they'd let us bring our red tractors to help celebrate.

I just ordered oem belt on line. Thanks boys

Your energy budget sure is bigger than mine! 78 is the setting around here and we are glad to have it with a peak of 98 today.

I have had smokers in the past, never a pellet grill Pretty sure this one needs a new hot rod as they call it. I ordered one, should be here by end of the week. Mmmmm I can taste those ribs now.

If it was on the internet it must be true.

I'm hoping to put a few more in the freezer this year. I've gotten two the last two years. This spring the wife went on a new weight loss plan, beef and pork are a two to three times a week thing on this plan, but she is allowed basically unlimited venison, so she got her license for the first time in many years, and the oldest kid is determined to take one with a bow this year. He's finally strong enough to be able to pull a 35lb draw, so he just might get to.

Bearings and pulley from a rotary deck

Cool Lane. But I'm thinking just the Flood. I've been watching some videos and the results look good. Much like a linseed oil rub down but with benefits. It seems to work great on patina. I would think somebody here has tried it. Doing the frame should give me a good idea how it looks without committing the sheetmetal to it.

It’s been a while since Poppy ran. I gave him a bath, cleaned the points and spark plug, and he fired right up.

Polished up Frank a bit today.

Had a chance to get back to this project. Got the 341 pulled. I haven't decided if I'm going to open up the top or not. For now I want to get the reborn B-80 done. Got it down to a rolling chassis. The electrical was showing it's age so I removed all of it. I'll do a complete rewire. I'll degrease and pressure wash it real good. I'm still pondering how far I want to go. You guys talked me out of a full resto due to this tractors history. Now I'm thinking about Flood Penetrol. Do the frame first and see if I like it. The hood is another thing. The repaint someone did just isn't good but it looks OK from 10'. Patina isn't there but the surface wasn't properly prepped prior to the paint. It looks like it was coursed sanded then painted. You can get the idea here. Now, short of a total repaint how do you think the Flood would do on it? Should I just go over it or lighting sand with a fine grit first? Or should I simply leave it as is?

The block and crank have been dropped off at the machine shop and I’ve had some time to get a few more parts on. There’s also a box of parts that came off the engine that need to be inspected, cleaned and painted.

@squonk ?

112° in the boiler room with both Cleaver Brooks boilers running non stop to maintain 65 PSI. Steam valve at 75% And my chiller was struggling. Another service call on the horizon for tomorrow. So 99° will feel like a cool breeze!

@Rick3478 I all but gave up on the seeds you sent me, and even began using the pots for other seeds. Looky looky! Here they are! Good, and strong, and healthy!

Bob. I used that flood penetrol with a quart can of Rustoleum Regal Red several years ago on a 1054. I bought a very good bristle paint brush and I thought the job came out great and the finish dried very smooth.

I put one of Denny Clarke’s fantastic Lawn Rangers to work the last couple of days trying to smooth out a wet ditch that I have rutted up when I’ve been mowing it. This little thing is a beast. @dclarke