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First and foremost I have to thank @Handy Don and @Bill D And say it was great to see Don & meet Bill. The BBT and I took a nice road trip this weekend. Saturday was spent mostly on the road with two primary stops. One was to pick up all the stuff. The other was to visit my mom and help her out with some chores. Here's a few pics of what we got...

When your yard looks like this

A while back @WHX?? & I made a road trip to trade with @Chrishar. I traded him my 753 for his 633. He did an excellent job with the 753, now it's time for me to tackle the 633. The engine runs good, but I will still pull the head to take a look inside. Tranny shifts good and does not seem to leak. The 3/4" bar for the foot rests will need to be replaced, but so far it looks like it will mainly be a paint over haul. Picture of ground zero. A couple of hours later I had it broken down to a pile of parts and a bucket of bolts. Will do my best to keep you all up to date on this journey.

Or your shed looks like this. This is an old picture, it's worse now

The last thing I expected to see this morning was a picture of one of Trina's knockers!

Pullstart will be happy it's a pull start. Get that pot metal pully off that tranny too I'm sure I have one. The score ... nuthin like parking lot wrenching ...

Made it go out in the cold and plow snow for the first time in my possession! The “revived” BD-4263 blade did just fine although I can see that I’ll definitely want to remove the slop in the pivot quadrant come springtime. The weight of one “large tall” operator plus the chains was plenty adequate and there was no lack of oomph to push aside 6” of dense (but not wet) snow. 0D2A13BB-E6FA-46E2-B042-88430FE52C27.heic

First all the C-160's went missing... Now it's various parts from a myriad of 's... Hhhmmm... I'd say we gots us a Colossus of a mystery on our hands here boys and girls...

We’ve had over 11” of snow here within the past week or so. I pushed out around 16 neighbors driveways for extra seat time. Normally use the 520-H which is easy and fun to drive. I had to switch out my ag tires this year to a set of turf tires with chains and weights. I keep this set ready every year and glad I had them for this year. The ag tires were just spinning. here are a couple of videos on my YouTube channel for recent plowing Wheel Horse GT16 4x4 Wheel Horse 520-H

Turfs and two link chains for snow and ice. Ags for dirt and mud plowing.

When it nears this….😁

I If only there was a beer & cheese day. Oh wait! That's every day in Wisconsin.

There goes my diet... again...

Good luck with the 633 I just got the motor rebuild on the 753 two months ago and my first time to drive it was the Christmas parade in November it runs so good

@702854boy Did any of the 647 answers above narrow down your question? Here on our acreage Trina and I started out with a B80 for me back in late 2016. Soon after she got a 657. From then it was a fast rolling downhill snowball effect. At this point she has 5 tractors, I have at least 9 (I honestly don't know) and we share one. The Wally Digger Backhoe. Addiction? Nehhh.....

Uhm... I'm told... When you use your neighbor's garage to "store" 's...

Seconded. Here in Maine we have tried every combination of Tire with and without chain and with and without fluid that you could imagine. Best case scenario is a Turf Tire with a good chain. If you have asphalt or concrete that you don't want to scratch, use rubber cross section chains.

23x8.50 will work just fine. Chains and turfs are a better combo than chains and ags, or just plain ags for snow and ice.

I've brought it to the attention of The Local Screw Replacement Technician.

I was more staring at those drywall screws. Need to step it up a notch with stainless EB.

I wonder if the cows were thinking “Do you see those kids playing in our food?"

On January 20, get ready to ‘havarti’ a ‘gouda’ time, because it’s National Cheese Lover’s Day! Have you ever wondered how the first human discovered cheese? We’ve wondered that too, and we’ll probably never find out. All we know is that it was love at first bite; when the first human tasted the salty, tangy, delicious goodness of cheese, they were hooked. And we can definitively say that human history was forever changed. Cheese might have had mysterious beginnings over 7,000 years ago, but it’s insanely popular today. In the U.S, one-third of all milk produced in this country goes into cheese production. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry! We’re ready to celebrate it. During the Roman Empire, cheesemaking had widely become a valued practice in the Middle East and Europe. Thousands of years ago, milk was transported by people by storing it in the stomachs of sheep. When left for a few days, the milk would separate into whey and curd. Retaining this residue and preserving it with salt led to the formation of cheese. Today, there are more than 1,800 types of cheese in the world. Cheese production started in America after English dairy farmers brought their farming and cheesemaking knowledge with them to New English colonies. The first farmstead cheese factory was opened in Koshkonong, Wisconsin.

Cheese & tinney day?!?!? Oh yeah baby ... throw in some good summer sausage just to keep things mooovin ...

Got to take the wheels off and inspect. My best guess is either the input shaft seal, brake shaft seal or both. I have had both seals give up all at once before.

Oh boy that poor blue truck ain't going anywhere now for a long while.

I never watch a complete add on YouTube but this one got my attention. I thought it would be of interest to you guys and gals who have need of a part that is no longer made or a good idea for a new part that would sell. It's called SendCutSend. They can take your CAD drawing and make the part. If you don't do CAD they can convert your hand sketch to a CAD for a fee. Do a search on YouTube to see if it impresses and sounds like something you could use. Besides metal they do plastics, composits, and wood also.

was a perfect opportunity to , PLOW WITH THE SUN , regularly move the shaded hedge / tree area drive way snow to the other sunny side , its already , starting its melting to road side drain , might touch up again later , for more removal . smooth / slick plow finish , moves snow with little effort . plow swing quadrant , was solid . easy , smooth , that easy detailing , is so worth it , stayin , sunny , pete

Trina's Military Tribute Tractor "Millie" got called up for active duty today. Her 867 Pigpen has been "acting out" for a while. We know the engine's tired and the carb/governor linkage is maladjusted. Like me. So she popped the new to us chains from the recent road trip on (thanks @Handy Don) and swapped the snow plow and bracket to Millie. Bam!! Back to plowing! Here's some 🐻 in ❄️ pics too.

More than 5 is a problem, I have 5 so obviously I have no problem. The tractors just like having company.

When someone posts this in one your threads.

If you're asking, it's too late.

I just wanted to see what the temperature is in my unheated cab, during my 2 hour snow blowing it averaged 38 degrees. Should have used my usual tee shirt and coat, but I added a flannel shirt and was actually warmer than I wanted to be. I have a plow with a thick UHMW scraper and I doubt that it will do much to the base layer of ice, so I might put the steel only blade on another tractor and try that after lunch.

There is pictorial evidence so it DID happen, but watching all of that get packed into a Honda Pilot was just plain awesome. A salute to Trina!

At 135, you are definitely getting flue gas condensation inside the pipe. I suspect you have too much stove for the area you are heating and hence have to throttle it down.

Exactly. Same gears -- 1-2-3-R and Hi-Lo with exactly the same ratios as the 8-speeds. Six came from marketing six forward speeds vs. the until-then-standard three forward speeds. Six speeds all had Limited Slip Differentials with either aluminum or steel end caps. Most had no dipstick. All had the brake drum on the “mushroom” gear shaft (as did the earlier 3-speeds) vs. on the cluster gear shaft of the 8-speeds. The switch on the brake drum shaft had two implications: 1) the drum rotates in the opposite direction, and 2) it rotates faster on the 8-speeds vs. the 3- and 6-speed transaxles.

Oh man... A day dedicated to @Achto and @WHX??... They gonna have big (cheese) heads all day...

I'm not that familiar with this part of the tractor. Is this a common leak area that is easy to fix with a new seal? I never had any leak from this area before, but after plowing some snow this week it started slowly under the tractor while sitting. Trans

Po-boys gotta work ya know, I only get to be a "weekend warrior wrench". Sides with temps reaching a high of 1f today & dipping to -18f tonight it don't really pay to heat the shop up for a couple hours. Sit back, relax, munch on some meat & cheese, there will be up dates this weekend.

Yep. Me too.

The radius of the 23" nominal size tire is only 1/2" taller than the 22". If you have more than 1-1/4" clearance, you should be fine. Not all tires are true to the size on the sidewall - Deestones run much smaller....

Your lifter was on the ACR Lever. That's why it was higher than the intake lifter. You need to adj the gap with it off of that lever

So, I have a couple buddies and once in a while we do stupid things. We are, for lack of better descriptive words, the Dumb Chickens.

Sides he may get another 753 someday ... And we know this happened because the the pics are where???

It's been many years (decades) since I've even removed that 'oil fill' plug. Like Eric said, it's not really useful (I usually say worthless). Assuming you have a manual go with 1.5 qt. in the 3 and 4 speeds, 2 qt in the 6 and 8 speeds. There's been other recommendations over the years that are probably fine but I keep it simple. The nozzles on the gear lube I use work well. If I'm in a hurry a few squeezes speed things up. If it's torn down to this extent the seat bolt hole holds it fine. Or the filler tube. I find that there's plenty of air seepage around the shifter without removing it. Hydros are a different beast and that's where some of the tricks do well.

Just out of curiosity, Why trade for essentially the same tractor?

@stevasaurus can explain it better than me. Basically it's a marketing issue from back in the day but also they were actually different. The brake drum was attached to a different point. Gear ratios are identical though.

Oh, and I forgot another engine....